#backyardfruit — Public Fediverse posts

Good haul of rambutan this year! If you’ve never had this delightful fruit, you bite off the hairy husk and feast on the sweet juicy flesh inside. Tastes kinda like a white grape crossed with an apple.

#BackyardFruit #Rambutan

After about four years, our olive tree has the tiniest, most adorable little fruits on it! #olives #pnw #BackyardFruit

This is my crabapple crop for the year. Fedi, what do you do with crabapples besides make pectin?

#Fruit #BackyardFruit #Apples #Gardening

Well, what a lovely surprise!

We though we had accidentally killed our passion fruit after landscaping, but turns out a few vines survived.

Couple of months, and passion fruitinis are on me!

#Flower #TropicalFruit #BackyardFruit

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Still more #BackyardFruit: Peaches, apricots, and teeny crabapples.

More #BackyardFruit: My skinny little Black Tartarian cherry tree is trying to produce fruit. I doubt it will stick around. The elderberries are flowering like crazy. The blueberries have already flowered, and are starting to produce visible berries.

A friend gave me two apple trees today — Mott's Pink and Junaluska. I just finished getting them into the ground. #Gardening #BackyardFruit

My scraggly apricot tree seems to believe it’s going to bear fruit this year. I guess I’d better put up netting soon if I want to feed anyone other than the local raccoons. #BackyardFruit

I decided to use most of this week’s elderberry harvest to make syrup. What you see here is elderberries, grated ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. After they have simmered a while, they will be strained and pressed, then cooled and blended with raw honey.

#elderberry #BackyardFruit

Not a bad elderberry harvest — over 2½ pounds harvested from three bushes. I lost hundreds of berries that fell to the ground while I was harvesting. There are still plenty of not-quite-ripe berries on the bushes.

Now I will need to wash these and remove stems and the occasional bug before I can use them. I haven’t decided what to do with them yet. In past years we have made elderberry syrup with ginger and honey, which is a great antiviral.

#gardening #BackyardFruit

Something has eaten all the almost-ripe Elberta peaches off our tree. The China Pearl peaches are still mostly unripe, so we still have plenty of those. I wonder if we have raccoons?
#BackyardFruit #gardening

Blackberries are no longer green. One is almost black! #gardening #BackyardFruit

Figs are coming along nicely. We had lots of fig buds, then they all fell off, then lots more grew. #gardening #BackyardFruit

Some of the blueberries are coming ripe. They are ridiculously delicious. #gardening #BackyardFruit