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RE: Welcome to My Garden #13 – Fruit Trees
Whoooaaa... whoaaa... I can spend a whole day just to admire all those trees and checked on every flower buds before they turn into fruit 😍 Thank you @donna-metcalfe😙 I love that peach too.. and the lemons.. Oh My God, I wouldn't any of the fruits fall to the ground ... gotta think how to make lemon marmalade or candied it too 😂😂😂 Oh No... I'm so excited about the tangerines and apples... you really have that beautiful garden at your backyard.. Now I'm jealous😊
And all of them are organics too... that's crazy awesome small orchard😱 Now I can bluff to my friends here😂😂 that I have friend in USA and she has beautiful orchard where we can pick the lemons and apples before lunch 😄
Yes, it is my little slice of paradise! Except I think in paradise you don't have so much work to do? :-)
I have made marmalade from the lemons and tangerines too. Most I give away because it has too much sugar for me now. I squeeze the juice and freeze it, there is not always fruit on the trees. I have quarts and quarts of frozen juice! I can use it to make lemonade in the summer, and to have handy for recipes. The tangerines don't make much juice, but I freeze some shredded peel and a little juice to make scones for a Sunday treat now and then.
But how many lemons and limes can two people use? I give a lot of them away. When I was a volunteer at the library I took them a big bag of lemons and found they had a table with more bags of lemons that other people had brought - they all come ripe at the same time!
The apples I eat fresh, cut them up for a salad with walnuts and raisins, and sometimes make an apple tart. These apples are good for both, fresh or cooked, one reason I chose that kind.
Yes, you can tell your friends you have a friend with a small fruit orchard - and I can tell my friends I have a friend with a Rambutan tree!
hahahaha... that's a mutual happiness we shared. funny that I can get the fruits in your orchard.. well not quite the same but apples, lemons and peach though expensive in many super market here in Jakarta or other big cities in Indonesia, but it's hard for you to get fresh Rambutan or Bilimbi in your place, but We're blessed! still... I love to be at your small fruit orchard rather than buying it at the super market.
Yes, you see that you are the one with the exotic garden! And not just "hard to get" those fruits here, I would say impossible!
Our gardens might grow different things but as gardeners we are similar. We love our gardens and our plants and get excited to find something new!
totally agree! well.. the real gardener is my hubby and my father in law, while my only best ability in Gardening is take care of the pumpkins and Epiphyllum and both of those plants not native from Indonesia. well.. I think the pumpkin in your place a bit different with pumpkin in my place. But I think... more plants in Indonesia almost similar with plants in Southern America. but you are really at the western side of America, so we have really different climate.
They are the real gardeners but they let you take care of the pumpkins? LOL
Pretty sure you are right about what we call pumpkins and what you call pumpkins. Pumpkins here are orange and mostly round. They are really a kind of squash. There are a lot of different squashes but only the round orange ones are pumpkins! Their seeds make a nice snack when toasted, I haven't heard of regular squash seeds used for snacks!
When you have time I'd be interested to see what kinds of squashes you grow!