InFriday ’s postI shared a few shots of the new path and trees we planted inThe Great South Florida Food Forest Project , plus a look at the amazing new dirt that ’s forming . Today I ’ve got a few more cool thing to show off . Like this baby Pouteria campechiana nervosa :
That ’s in the front curtilage . In a few years , it ’s going to be comport fruit . None of us have any melodic theme what canistel taste like , yet we planted a seedling . How crazy awe-inspiring is that ? We ’ll taste it for the first time when the tree hold .
In the middle of the front thou , Dad planted a Caesalpinia gilliesii tree a recollective clock time back . It ’s add up to the end of its spirit and will soon need replacing . The tree diagram I hoped to put in its place was a tamarind – but then I register that tamarindo Tree will create a nicety way out and be given to kill off thing beneath them .
That discovered , we put it in the side yard . Dad was initially reticent .
DAD:“Will this thing kill the grass I ’ve worked so firmly for ? ”
ME:“Maybe when it gets big . ”
DAD:“Hmm … ”
ME:“But hey … you ’re not as acute on mow as you used to be , veracious ? ”
DAD:“Yeah . ”
ME:“So … if it starts to defeat off the grass , permit ’s replace the smoke with shade - love victual and just mulch the whole striptease . ”
DAD:“I think we could do that . What is this tree again ? ”
ME:“Tamarind . It ’s got edible mellifluous - saturnine anatomy in what depend like bean pod . Even if you do n’t eat them , your Chinese friends will . ” ( A note about Dad : he has a LOT of Taiwanese Friend and is actively involved in a Chinese church building . It was totally cheating for me to bring them up . He loves those folks . )
DAD:(not quite looking convinced ) “ Alright , fine . I judge we can put it there . ”
Now seem at this cute tree :
sense dingy for that perfect St. Augustine grass ? Its sprightliness is gon na get a LOT worse ! Wait until this tamarind tree hits 100′ tall ! HA HA HA ! ! !
( Actually , we ’ll belike have to keep it from doing that … )
Beyond the tamarind , the jackfruit , pigeon peas , and the tropic almond I mentioned planting in my last post , we also put in a fig and a span of surinam cherry , plus a Solanum quitoense , some canna , a lobster - claw heliconia ( just because ) and another yam plant .
Here ’s a little surinam cherry tree :
Aww ! What an adorable little invasive !
This one is in reality a seedling I snagged from a dark - fruit gratifying variety . Some surinam cherry tree try out suspiciously like shellac . This did n’t . Much .
Oh … I ca n’t NOT tell you about the crowning achievement of this trip . Dad and I managed to find – and purchase – and plant … a …
wait for it …
Wait For It …
WAIT FOR IT …
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CHOCOLATE PUDDING FRUIT TREE ! ! !
Yep . The astonishing fruitI get wind a few months ago … has now been installed in my parents ’ railyard , much to their ( and my ) joy .
give thanks you , Spyke ’s Grove Nursery . I ca n’t believe how many nerveless things they carry . ( take down : the staff I ’ve unravel into there are less than friendly , but at least they have really great Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . )
One new development in The Great South Florida Food Forest Project that Mom was especially impressed by was the appearance of our very first cluster of bananas .
I wish more people could know the pleasure of growing their own food . I do n’t get why so many folks , particularly in a tropical promised land like South Florida , will spend hours on their stupid lawn and dazed toxic landscape plants … when you may bring forward sweet teemingness from the earth . A lot of tropic yield and shrub do n’t even call for water down there once they get established … yet people slave along , mowing and fertilize their worthless lawns .
Is that you ? I trust you ’ll step down . works something edible , then plant another … and another … and another . Pretty before long you ’ll be reaping the odorous bounty and give birth plentifulness to deal – and when you do , stop over on by and say us about it .
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Home Grown Food Summit Happening Now!
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