That duck comment. 😂 Love seeing your older ones in the garden. My littles (2&5) are always with me watching things grow and making observations about our food and even more about the spiders (lovingly). I hope to have them keep coming back with me year after year.
I think, for most fruits, it would be good if one could taste the variety before trying to grow one. That's not always possible, of course. Late frost is the reason haskap doesn't produce for me, I think. I need to find a late blooming variety. I have damsons that don't produce. They are suckers from a good stock. I think aspen is sucking up the moisture and nutrients. I need to move one down to my permaculture Zone two so it'll be more tended too. Around here, we bottle damsons whole for fruit treats throughout the year.
medlar does have an unusual flavour indeed. although last time i tasted it was 20+ years ago, still not a pleasant memory. tastes kind of a rotten or at least overripe apple but the main thing is the texture. its mushy. the plant is nice btw
Folks say “caramel apples” but I do NOT think that at all. They taste like tamarinds and apples to me. I don’t love the fruit straight, but it’s good folded into whipped cream. I need to find more recipes for them bc I always have gobs and gobs.
I don't know where or how I could pre-taste a medlar. I have never even heard of them before. But I am really interested in growing fruits that are not as susceptible to pests as apples and pears (which I want to remove from my garden)
That's a good point, when most of our environment is post industrial. Look for permaculture groups or heritage plants gardening groups. These people will have these plants.
I asked in my local permaculture group for folks growing them, but ultimately was able try one first from my local plant nursery that sold them and offered a fall fruit tasting of persimmons, medlar, sea buckthorn.
Do you know if Damsons can be grafted onto other plum trees? I have two plum trees already. One is a wild red plum that I grew from seed and tastes like a satsuma. It produces many small plums and makes an absolutely great pie. The other is a plum that I bought as rootstock. I have grafted some of the branches with a suncrest peach, which is the peach described in Epitaph for a Peach and is tender and has beautiful, tasty peaches. I am interested in grafting the other branches as the original tree does not produce taste plums and have not yet decided on a variety.
You might look at www.orangepippin.com and find more information about compatibility and cross pollination. They have a very large database on fruit tree varieties.
The duck comment really cracked me up since my sister in law recently ate her rudest duck 😆
My squirrel has been planting the peanuts I was putting out for her to eat. She's been planting them and their growing! I love it!
the comment about the duck made me chuckle.
I would enjoy seeing how you prune your fruit trees to keep them small and still get a good crop of fruit.
My parents make a plum alcohol out of Damsum plums. They call it "Plum Crazy".
🤣 "Perhaps a good year to eat that duck." 🤣🤣
That duck comment. 😂 Love seeing your older ones in the garden. My littles (2&5) are always with me watching things grow and making observations about our food and even more about the spiders (lovingly). I hope to have them keep coming back with me year after year.
Your welcome and thank you.
Turkey coos are my new favorite sound.
Those figs are just magnificent. Unbelievable sturdy plants, figs.
Jam making would be a good post season video topic.
I should’ve invited you over to my place my neighbors front yard had thousands of plums and they all went to compost because she didn’t pick them.
Hello Angela and Ruth, love when you show your beautiful garden, also love the sweet sound your turkey's make💕💕💕💕
Hi, Peg!!
@@ParkrosePermaculture Hi Angela, hope you are doing well💞💞
I think, for most fruits, it would be good if one could taste the variety before trying to grow one. That's not always possible, of course.
Late frost is the reason haskap doesn't produce for me, I think. I need to find a late blooming variety.
I have damsons that don't produce. They are suckers from a good stock. I think aspen is sucking up the moisture and nutrients. I need to move one down to my permaculture Zone two so it'll be more tended too.
Around here, we bottle damsons whole for fruit treats throughout the year.
medlar does have an unusual flavour indeed. although last time i tasted it was 20+ years ago, still not a pleasant memory. tastes kind of a rotten or at least overripe apple but the main thing is the texture. its mushy. the plant is nice btw
Folks say “caramel apples” but I do NOT think that at all. They taste like tamarinds and apples to me. I don’t love the fruit straight, but it’s good folded into whipped cream. I need to find more recipes for them bc I always have gobs and gobs.
This has been a really odd year for fruit with that late frost and some lengthy heatwaves.
I don't know where or how I could pre-taste a medlar. I have never even heard of them before. But I am really interested in growing fruits that are not as susceptible to pests as apples and pears (which I want to remove from my garden)
That's a good point, when most of our environment is post industrial. Look for permaculture groups or heritage plants gardening groups. These people will have these plants.
I asked in my local permaculture group for folks growing them, but ultimately was able try one first from my local plant nursery that sold them and offered a fall fruit tasting of persimmons, medlar, sea buckthorn.
Do you know if Damsons can be grafted onto other plum trees? I have two plum trees already. One is a wild red plum that I grew from seed and tastes like a satsuma. It produces many small plums and makes an absolutely great pie. The other is a plum that I bought as rootstock. I have grafted some of the branches with a suncrest peach, which is the peach described in Epitaph for a Peach and is tender and has beautiful, tasty peaches. I am interested in grafting the other branches as the original tree does not produce taste plums and have not yet decided on a variety.
I don’t see why you couldn’t graft them. They are on their own rootstock, so grafting isn’t necessary, but I bet a graft would take.
You might look at www.orangepippin.com and find more information about compatibility and cross pollination. They have a very large database on fruit tree varieties.