Friday, April 16, 2010

Friday Afternoon Garden Club

It’s FAC time in The Art Garden! Grab your favorite beverage and pull up a chair. You didn’t really want to work this afternoon anyway, did you? Leave a comment to join the garden party.

Today’s topic:

Do you have fruit trees in your garden? What kind/varieties of fruit do you grow? Are they standard, semi-dwarf, or dwarf trees? How do you store or preserve your fruit crop? Do you have a favorite recipe that you look forward to making out of your fruit every year?



7 comments:

erin said...

does my rhubarb count? that about as close to fruit as we get....
mmmmmm pie...

Jocelyn H. Chilvers said...

Hey, food is food! I love rhubarb pie, too!

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Mark N Denver said...

Have three dwarf (semi-dwarf?) trees in my back yard - apple, cherry and peach. The cherry is a very low performer along with the apple. The peach is my pride and joy. Two years ago was my best production year for fine peaches. The unknown variety has a nice appearance and is really sweet. Last year (with the April snow) I got not a one. I have a dehydrator - so I preserve them - and have them dried all winter.

PS - Am waiting till next weekend to clean my pond - hopefully warmer then.

Jocelyn H. Chilvers said...

Hi Mark, I've been noticing all of the peach trees in bloom the last few days. Hopefully, we'll avoid a hard freeze, and you'll have a bumper crop this year! I'm glad you've found a good way to preserve your fruit and not let it go to waste. I have a dehydrator, too, and use it for my tomatoes. Dehydrated food is light weight, compact, and easy to store.

Conrad Olivier said...

I have an apricot tree that has managed to produce once in the 10 years that I've been in this house... that was prob. about 2 years ago when Mark's peach tree did well. I think I missed the worst of the hail today so with any luck... I'll see some apricots. Noticed a lot of honey bees in the last few weeks - good sign at least in Denver!?!

Jocelyn H. Chilvers said...

Conrad, as an apricot tree owner, perhaps you recognized the flowers in the photo here? My apricot tree has bloomed spectacularly this year, so I'm hoping for a bit of fruit, too. No hail in my neighborhood yet, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get any this year (fat chance, eh?)!