Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

This weekends pink, ruby, and white guava. A couple plantains left from harvested bunch. A soursop too.

A new week of dragonfruit flowers. They'll be ready in about 5 weeks. Have a few to harvest this week from same plant.

 

TY for the info, that Bush had a good year, the berries were delicious! If you notice it has that single woody stem and all the upper growth is from that, so it's finally nice to see a new shute coming up.

 

Blueberries LOVE acidic soil. Extra acidity will spur new growth. Save your used coffee grounds and add them to the soil. We use pine bark mulch around the fruit trees, blueberries and blackberries (takes longer to breakdown and adds acidity to soil). We move the bark back, dump the coffee grounds on top of the soil and move mulch back. Rains carry nutrients from the coffee down to the roots.
I have a quart plastic container from Chinese take out soup next to the coffee maker. Takes me 1 week to fill it up.

PS we use these spikes for the bushes and trees. 2x a year.

$171 Jobe’s Garden Fertilizer Spikes, Easy Plant Care Slow Release Fertilizer for Fruit and Citrus Plants and Trees, 160 Count

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NI7MN2

 

Oak sawdust works well as blueberry bush fertilizer as well.

 

Did not know that. Thank you.

 

Finally got around to prepping a row for raspberries. Im going to try and go dig them up next day or two.

 

Got about 30 clusters of 3 ish plants. See if they make the transplant. Got them in ground pretty quick and watered.

 

We got 148# of peaches off the first (early ) tree. The later tree is ripening fruit now. Pick it the first week of Sept.

The first picking, It was 11 of those cardboard flats all told.

Oh!

 

Yum!

 

They are SO GOOD!

Had slices on french bread rounds grilled with cheese and a sprig of basil for supper tonight.
We have put up enough canned in syrup, and have 3 gallon bags of dried. The kids and grand kids love those! Fresh Fruit every morning and for mid day snacking.. Wish it could last all year round.

 

Ive made peach preserves from fresh peaches. Thats real good

 

Preserves are the FIRST thing we make with the ripe drops. Often , when picking one fruit, the ones nearby fall and get damaged.

Damaged peaches go right into the pot to boil a bit/
These particular peaches (Reliance) Are free stone, and slip the skins easily when tree ripened.

 

See if they make it..

 

Raspberries?

 

Yeah dunno if they will make it...they look pretty rough

 

Hopefully they do! I transplanted a raspberry bush in the Spring and it really hasn't grown at all

 

They sure look healthy at planting, i see you have that water right nearby. how they making out?

 

Harvested a small Apple Banana bunch today.



This is our Lola Avocado tree, it was planted 7 years ago and is grafted. Our first fruit was last year. This year there's about a dozen. They're huge, about 2-3 lbs each. Not too much longer to start harvesting.

 

Not good...ill keep tending to them its ok though cuz i didnt pay for them. A few might make it. The leaves look dead on a lot of them. Ill keep trying to get raspberries...

 

Transplant shock?