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Garden update
Jan. 28th, 2025 10:05 pmDid a fruit tree audit yesterday / today, and picked a bucket of citrus after doing this morning's section.
Yesterday - the front. There are some lillipillies on the north side, and signs of flowers about to break out all over; this is going to be a nightmare of tiny fruit and tall tree. Nothing visible on the guava or the pomegranate, so I'm hopeful that that means we got everything and there won't be more this season. The acerola is covered in flowers, and I've picked two handfuls of fruit over the last few days; this needs to be watched (the fruit was about half of it some ripe, and they ripen on the counter). Olives, dragon fruit, and plum pine continue to have neither fruit nor flowers. The fruit on the prickly pear continues to be too high and awkward to be a priority.
Today, the back. The feijoa has obviously continued flowering, there continue to be so. many. tiny fruit. Nothing on the regular orange or the tangelo, so we might have got all of those. The lemon has been flowering, and I found ~4 fruit; I'll have to go look with the ladder later. The icecream bean is still flowering but no obvious fruit; the avocado has nothing, the curry bush looks to have finished flowering but not set fruit, and the mulberry had a tiny bit of a new crop, but only on two branches. This last needs follow up. The caramobolas continue to flower but not set fruit. Nothing on the wampi, the plums, or the persimmon. Apples out of reach, and all munched by the invasive parrots; we collected all the dried out ones that have dropped. Despite the time up the fig tree last week, I spotted one high up. There are the remnants of bunches of grapes, but I think that the parrots have eaten all the fruit. And the mandarin and the cara-caramel navel had so much fruit that we'd missed on previous passes that we filled a bucket.
We also got a notice in the letter box last week about the incident. I'm faintly annoyed and amused in equal parts that it seems to be even less helpful than the website, but it does say that purchased host fruit should be treated the same as garden fruit. Which is what I've been doing.
