10-08-2020, 11:23 PM
(10-01-2020, 05:47 PM)Jig-fisher Wrote: I know WH2 mentioned this thread last year when I posted some of my fall harvest of my backyard orchard. I have 4 apple trees, 4 plum trees, 1 apricot, 1 peach, 2 cherry and 2 pear trees. The cherry, peach, and pear trees are recent additions and are not yet producing. I also have a raspberry patch and 2 varieties of grapes. I grow very limited things in my garden patch. I put in garden boxes this year. Mostly tomatoes, peppers both hot and bell, and tomatillos. This is to can tomatoes and make fresh salsa. I also grow cucumbers, a little bit of peas and beans just to eat fresh, raddishes, a few carrots, summer squash both yellow and zucchini, then leave a big space for pumpkins.
I have canned 21 quarts of tomatoes, which my wife uses primarily to make homemade pasta sauce during the year. I have made several batches of fresh salsa which goes like wildfire in the house.
As far as fruit, our berries have been doing fantastic and we are still picking every 3 days. The Jupiter grapes have done really well and I did 13 quarts of juice recently. The Neptune grapes are just ripening and are also really good. The plums did well on 3 of the 4 trees, and I dried and froze a bunch. 3 of the 4 apple trees did well and I have already harvested the Ruby Jon and the Cortland. I made sauce and have a lot of fresh in the downstairs fridge. My golden delicious is loaded and is nearing getting ready for harvest.
I didn't get a lot of pumpkins but have 2 that are probably about 60 to 70 lbs. The rest are just small carving varieties.
Now that I know where this is at I will check in regularly. Sounds like you have great gardens.
Seems like you really have the fruit trees nailed down. I've been thinking for several year about adding a plum tree to my group of fruit trees. Had a really good harvest of peaches this year, just finished up freezing drying the last batch a few days ago. Do your plum trees need more than one to pollinate or are all 4 different varieties?