Firstfruits

[JohnDB]

My wife and I just came back from visiting her farm family in GA...

They have a garden. We got tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, cantelopes, and peas.

I miss garden fresh produce...

 

[Tessa]

All I have in fruit is an Apple tree and they are falling off too early. It is absolutely laden.
I tried to grow carrots but they were all no bigger than one inch long.
Oh I do have strawberries and a plum tree. The birds eat all the plums before they get chance to grow properly.

 

[JohnDB]

I wonder how you can keep birds away from your fruit trees.

I know that they like cherries. And when I get a farm I want some fruit trees to make jams and jellies from. (As well as ferment the ones that are unusable)

Pesticides to keep the bugs away are a must... unfortunately. Got to do a bunch just to keep away the Japanese beetle.

 

[for_his_glory]

When we were kids my Grandfather planted two gardens. One to can vegetables from and the other for us kids to pick and eat the raw vegetables from. Eight kids can devour a vegetable garden pretty quick, LOL. We didn't have running water until I was sixteen so we went to the well outside and used the hand pump to clean them off before we ate them. Their basement was always full of canned fresh vegetables and fruits. My Grandfather would dig a hole in the ground and line it with burlap bags and fill the hole with apples in the summer and they would last almost all winter as we ate them up.

We also had plum, apple, peach, pear and cherry trees plus grape vines. Those first fruits were so good. Thank you JohnDB for this thread as it brought up so many good memories.