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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 31, 2009 20:06:33 GMT -5
AH! Ok, a walnut relative! Though looking at the leaves, how closely are walnuts related to pecans ya think?
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Post by flowerpower on Sept 1, 2009 5:24:14 GMT -5
Flowerpower, if you should find a few extra butternuts, I will put up my hand for some. Be sure to check our trade list out and also ask for things just in case we have what you want and it doesn't get listed. cheers, grungy I will try my best to get enough.  Two yrs ago, I left a flowerpot full of soil in my garden shed. In late spring, I saw something sprouting in it. It was a Butternut tree. A squirrel had planted about 6 in there. I gave it to my friends. The rest I tossed. |
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Post by biorag on Sept 8, 2009 5:10:08 GMT -5
Today a yellow peach : « Tardive valla marnas ». One of the best in its category :   …and a white regularly biggest than these on the picture but this one grows in a hedge : “grosse mignonne” : sweet and juicy.  |
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Post by biorag on Sept 9, 2009 6:20:48 GMT -5
Plum « Mirabelle de Nancy » : sweet, excellent for making tarts.  Plum « Quetsche d’Alsace » : sweet, not too juicy, excellent for making tarts  Fig « ronde de Bordeaux » : very sweet, good for drying.   |
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Post by plantsnobin on Sept 9, 2009 8:58:11 GMT -5
Thank you so much for posting these wonderful looking fruit pictures, I am sure you are making everyone very hungry just looking at them.
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Post by biorag on Sept 12, 2009 11:59:07 GMT -5
Thank you Karen !  It is really a good year for fruits here. I save many seeds for everyone who wants some. The harvest today : Nashi hoshui :  Reinette ananas :  Tranparente de Croncels :  I keep the pips … waiting the comments of Michel I suppose at the beginning of October. |
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Post by silverseeds on Sept 12, 2009 12:54:16 GMT -5
Look SUPER tasty.
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Post by grunt on Sept 13, 2009 2:45:55 GMT -5
For those of you that might not know, the "Nashi hoshui" is not an apple, but an Asian pear. They are super productive from very young trees. One tree, once mature, will do a couple of medium families. We didn't know that when we bought ours, so we got three. And they are now starting to punch out fruit. I thinned 3 gallons of 1" to 1 1/2" fruit from a 4 year old tree, and still likely have too many on the tree.
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Post by biorag on Sept 13, 2009 6:16:19 GMT -5
A little more about the last varieties :
Nashi : thank you Grunt for the specifications. I forgot to say it was a pear. We cannot transplant it on quince tree. I grafted it on a pear tree and I never tried to sow the seeds .... perhaps it will be interesting !? (september-october)
Reinette ananas : It has a flavor of pineapple with maturity. The tree is not very vigourous. (september-february)
Transparente de Croncels : tender, juicy, good balance sugar-acidity. The fruit is a little fragile.
Some say the taking of cuttings is possible on this variety although I have never tried it. (september-december)
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 13, 2009 7:38:28 GMT -5
Plum « Quetsche d’Alsace » Those look like a plum we purchased in California which were called Italian prune plums. They were the best plums ever. I sure would like to have a few of those. I'm waiting for catalogs!!! Speaking of which, do you have any crabapples?
Anyone know the difference between an apple and a crabapple. We have only 3 apple trees and have been told that the best pollinator for apples is a crab...
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Post by bunkie on Sept 13, 2009 9:22:12 GMT -5
we have a 2 year old crabapple tree here that broke in half last winter. i taped it up with masking tape, and it is growing sturdy now and has 2 fruit on it jo, very tiny ones. i know i should pick them off...crabapples are extremely tart, never sweet, to my knowledge.
biorag, love the looks of the Fig « ronde de Bordeaux, and the yellow peach!
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 13, 2009 9:51:28 GMT -5
hmmm... Got any idea how old it is Bunkie? Maybe you could send me a piece or a seed?
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Post by grungy on Sept 13, 2009 11:29:56 GMT -5
Jo,
If you like when we harvest the plums in about 10 days or so I can send you some pits of the Italian prune plums, and Mrs. Bradshaw plums and Green Gage plums. Mrs. Bradshaw is a IPP on steriod and so good.
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Post by biorag on Sept 13, 2009 12:00:55 GMT -5
Plum « Quetsche d’Alsace » Those look like a plum we purchased in California which were called Italian prune plums. They were the best plums ever. I sure would like to have a few of those. I'm waiting for catalogs!!! Speaking of which, do you have any crabapples? Anyone know the difference between an apple and a crabapple. We have only 3 apple trees and have been told that the best pollinator for apples is a crab... Maybe it is the same we call "Quetsche d'Italie". They seem very similar. If I believe what I read the italian is bigger (35g) than the alsacian (20 g). I have another plum tree which could be this one .... picture later. I don't know crabapples. Is it an apple tree of ornement ? In this case I know a variety called "everest" which is a very good pollinator. A link for the picture : www.plantes-et-jardins.com/catalogue/catalogue4.asp?id_variations=13079 |
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Post by biorag on Sept 13, 2009 12:22:49 GMT -5
biorag, love the looks of the Fig « ronde de Bordeaux, and the yellow peach! Some pits ... and cuttings for you if you want. Today : Pastilière »   More perfumed than « ronde de Bordeaux and a little less sweet. » |
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Two yrs ago, I left a flowerpot full of soil in my garden shed. In late spring, I saw something sprouting in it. It was a Butternut tree. A squirrel had planted about 6 in there. I gave it to my friends. The rest I tossed.
