Random fruit plants update.
These are the banana trees, including the most recent addition. They are growing like crazy on the porch. It got too hot and dry to get them in the ground and the lingering drought conditions meant they might not have made it so it worked out best. The ideal time to plant them is either Fall (October/November) or early Spring (February/March).
We are debating a few spots to plant them so we'll have to see how the weather cooperates.
These are the two muscadine grapevines and they are doing great as well. We are pretty sure we've decided on a place for these (one at each end of the orchard area). The best time to plant them is "after danger of frost has passed" so probably March or so. That will give us time to get the raised beds for them ordered and start filling them with soil.
And here is the "wild" pear tree.
We've been watering it by hand, well, by "truck", ha and they are looking good. Should be ready to harvest soon. After reading info from people in our part of the country who grow these, they said to just use "Labor Day" as the harvest weekend. Once we take the pears, we'll have to figure out a pruning plan since it's obviously in need of some correction.
Or, we could just let it keep doing what it's doing and give us pears while we wait for the others in the orchard to give us their pears.
Everything looks wonderful. Nice thing about your muscadine grapevines; they are easy to care for and I think they are disease resistant but you will need to think about some sort of trellis for them to grow on; something like using some 'T' post and string (Home Depot)
ReplyDeleteOh, found this video for you.
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The muscadine grower I know grows them on a wire between posts so they can be protected from birds more easily. If you had a fence, you could use that. My friend put her muscadine along a fence already in place. I wonder if deer like muscadine.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see what happens when you throw a few muscadine into the woodsy places and see if they climb the trees.
Your food forest is going to get some great new additions soon. Bananas, grapes, and pears - oh my!
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