Showing posts with label Bananas and Papaws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bananas and Papaws. Show all posts

Monday, 11 January 2010

The orchard provides...

Mangoes "Tommy Atkins are the first to ripen.
When the bats or possums are starting to eat them we know they are ready to be harvested.
This year is a very good Mango Year. We gave also full buckets to our neighbours.

This tree bears Banana Jack Mangoes.

Mangoes Tommy Atkins.
We grow many different kinds of Mangoes. E2R2; Kwan; Keitt; Nam doc mei; Pico and more.

The grapes ripen after Christmas through January. This is a Isabella, which does not need to be sprayed. Grapes must be pruned end of August.


Jaboticaba tree crops four times a year. We eat the fruit fresh from the tree. It has a sweet pulp inside the black skin which we do not eat as it has a bitter taste. Pop the whole fruit into the mouth and spit out the skin.


Bananas and Papayas, here they are called Papaws, are easy to grow. Who has taken a bite out from the papaw? Probably A bird, Possum or a rat!


Believe it or not:
A table, a chair. a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein Physicist