January 10 , 2019
Top Tips: Fruit Trees
What an stupefying winter ! Near my house in East Austin , an over - the - top satsuma defies frosty sunrise . I bet the kinfolk ’s got a ladder up this weekend to pick the rest period . Last hebdomad , I lucked into something I ’d never see in winter : a Rufous hummingbird nectaring on shrimp plant in a San Marcos garden . Nearby , plump Meyer lemons , grapefruits , and these satsuma orangeness still looked good enough to eat . I’m still harvesting calamondins — tiny tart citrous fruit powerhouses — even though my small tree ’s house in a large container near the terrace . I have n’t nark to deal it . I might have enough to makeJennifer Stocker ’s traditional sweet / sharp-worded marmalade .
Definitely I want to makeRob Moshein ’s spicy salsa recipe with native chile pequins . I ’ve receive slew to share with the birds that re - sow them with abandon . Free plants in part - nicety spots!Last year , we got a miracle peach!In fall , I put out soupy banana and stunner for Red Admiral and Hackberry Emperor butterflies . age ago , some critter must have drag off a peach and dismiss the seed . One of the first things I ever planted was a peach tree . It did n’t work . But that ’s before I know anything about garden at all , and I had n’t met ever - energetic and helpfulJim Kamas , Fredericksburg Extension Fruit Specialist , Texas A&M AgriLife Extension . To spare you my mistakes , I rounded up your questions ( including pomegranate rot ) and turn over them over to Jim for this hebdomad ’s interview . He quickly tucks them all in to cover : growing in container or on bouldered dirt , common job ( including why yield drop cloth ) , and which tree diagram need another for pollination . There ’s lots more , so watch now !
Whatever yield or nut you ’re growing , check outTexas A&M ’s Fruit & Nut Resources . Director Ed Fuentesisn’t really being held up byZach HalfinatThigh High Gardensin San Marcos , a permaculture educational farm . Ed and garden manager Zach were plainly reconnoiter their later move last February . And now , you could see how Zach shew how to lop 4 - year - honest-to-god peach trees for best production and harvest home ease . Watch now!Here ’s another segment when heprunes year - honest-to-god and 2 - year - old fruit Tree .
Here ’s something you ca n’t deplete , but piffling oak freshness wasps do so inside their protective housing . These onRon Langsweirdt’stree do resemble little acorn . They wo n’t do damage deserving vex about . Watch Daphne ’s segment now!Watch more about oak tree gall WASP .
Daphne also shows offDeborah Bissonnet’sfun , repurposing idea ! When she and hubby Mike made tamales , he suggested using remnant shuck as works fledgling “ pots . ”See how they did it . After the coolheaded rains , BJ Caldwellspotted lavender - colored , edible blewit mushrooms in her Wimberley front grand . But do n’t fumble it ! There ’s a poisonous count - a - like , so please never eat any garden mushroom if you ca n’t confirm identity!On tour atFestival Beach Community GardenandFestival Beach Food Forest , see how neighbor grow together to make a difference . Watch now !
Thanks for stopping by ! See you next workweek , Linda
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