Here's today's temporary repair of today's irrigation gusher. I'll get around replacing the whole thing sometime this year... #HomeOrchard #Yarden
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My citrus, avocado, and feijoa drip irrigation main line is starting to split. I installed it around 2017 so I’m fine with having to replace it now. Thankfully the weather is cooling a bit. #HomeOrchard
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The only thing I like about Summer is the fruit.
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To my VoAg teacher, Mr. Smith, who told us, “You can’t grow an apple from seed; it won’t grow true”, I present to you my beautiful harvest from a 15 year old tree that I started from seed….
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Brought in a dozen Orcas Pears.
Yum.
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Harvested about 10 pounds of apples yesterday, turned them into three large apple crisps. That took care of dinner and breakfast, lol.
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Drat. Our tree rejected these two avocados. To the compost they go. Seven remain on the tree. #HomeOrchard #Yarden
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It’s that time when nectarines are ripening. Here are a few we have so far kept safe from bugs and birds (one is suspect though). These are the largest fruit the tree has ever produced. Last year they were slightly larger than plums #HomeOrchard #Yarden
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Shade cloth is up and so protecting the avocados & part of the house from the worst of summer #HomeOrchard #Yarden #Avocado
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This year, our Bacon Avocado has the best fruit-set ever, after its complimentary Mexicola Avocado bloomed in parallel. I’m guessing 75% of the currently pea-sized fruit will drop over the summer #Avocado #HomeOrchard #Gardening
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The two avocado trees (type A & B) are in full bloom & the bees are going to town. Meanwhile, the two oranges, ceanothus, poppies, and sages are flowering. It’s a lovely but intense smell out there 🤗 #Yarden #HomeOrchard
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Today the yellow-skinned New Century asian pear is in full bloom. It is just in time to help pollinate the brown skinned Hosui asian pear, which is at the end of its bloom. The New Century asian pear tree wants to be a cherry tree. #BloomScrolling #Yarden #HomeOrchard
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California Gardening: Yellow Strawberry Guava: My FAVORITE Fruit to Grow! 🍋 https://www.allforgardening.com/1659180/california-gardening-yellow-strawberry-guava-my-favorite-fruit-to-grow-%f0%9f%8d%8b/ #BackyardGardening #BestFruitTreesForCalifornia #CaliforniaGardening #FruitTreeHarvest #gardening #GrowingGuava #HarvestingGuava #HomeOrchard #HowToGrowStrawberryGuava #LemonGuava #OrganicFruit #PsidiumCattleianum #StrawberryGuavaVarieties #SweetGuavaVarieties #TropicalFruitGardening #VLog #YellowGuavaTaste #YellowStrawberryGuava
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California Gardening: Grow Delicious Guavas: Thai White vs. Strawberry Variety! https://www.allforgardening.com/1657417/california-gardening-grow-delicious-guavas-thai-white-vs-strawberry-variety/ #BackyardGardening #CaliforniaGardening #ExoticFruit #FruitTrees #gardening #GardeningTips #GrowingGuava #guava #GuavaVarieties #HarvestingGuava #HomeOrchard #HowToGrowGuava #OrganicGardening #StrawberryGuava #ThaiWhiteGuava #TropicalFruit #VLog
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A Yellow-rumped Warbler was on the lookout for insects in our ‘lil nectarine tree. It was a very last minute decision to get the camera #YellowRumpedWarbler #BirdPhotography #Birds #HomeOrchard #Fujifilm #SOoC
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Our “Hosui” Asian Pear tree is now blooming
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Our nectarine’s first bloom. It’s in popcorn mode so hopefully most of the buds delay bloom until after this next storm! #HomeOrchard
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Today I juiced & heat pasteurized about 20 pounds of backyard mandarins for breakfast juice. Quite the bounty this year. Here’s a photo of one compost bucket filled with some of the remains #HomeOrchard #Yarden
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I better prune my fruit trees & grapes today. The trees are already a few weeks away from flowering #HomeOrchard #Yarden
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This Orange-crowned Warbler was flitting between our backyard nectarine and grapevines, snatching gnats that had beacons made of sunlight shining off their bug wings
#Yarden #HomeOrchard #OrangeCrownedWarbler #Birds #BirdPhotography #Fujifilm #SOoC
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This morning, my wife caught early sunlight slowly lighting up our citrus trees #Yarden #HomeOrchard
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Our “Bacon” Avocado tree produced fruit for the first time this year. “Bacon” varieties have very thin skin and, no, they do not taste like bacon. The wind knocked one off and it was ripe. But the bottom had been punctured and insects may have enjoyed its flesh. However, plenty of the fruit was unscathed and we enjoyed a very creamy, lightly flavored avocado! After years of waiting & babying the trees, a nice reward. #HomeOrchard #Yarden #Avocado
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CW: food/fruit
We have positively gorged on figs this year. Our little fig tree has been full to the brim! This is the last of them... now we'll have to be patient until next year.
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It’s the backyard Asian Pear harvest! Yellow are New Century variety and the brown skinned are the more familiar looking Hosui variety. They are odd spindly trees right now. I’m not used to pruning central leader trees, but vase shape. #Yarden #HomeOrchard #AsianPears
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Our cultivated California native seedy grapes are ready. The two plants mostly feed Northern Mockingbirds, Western Scrub Jays, and in the late fall, Kinglets, but some grapes will be for the humans in the form of a compote. As a bonus, gaze upon our lone avocado! #Yarden #HomeOrchard #Grapes #Avocado
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Another nectarine harvest. This time, 4 pounds. Smelling more fragrant this time! A few came off with a tug (yellower stems) but most still need shears. Also, our milkweed has busted open their pods and omg the tufts are so soft! #HomeOrchard #Nectarines #Milkweed #Yarden
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Today we suspended shade cloth over the avocado trees. The trees will now survive 100°F+ temperatures coming later this week. Heatwaves are on the way to California!
#Yarden #Gardening #AvocadoTrees #HomeOrchard #California #CaWx
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The promise of future tasty treats hidden among the leaves.
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Our backyard Nectarine is now in full bloom! #NectarineTree #Yarden #HomeOrchard #BloomScrolling #Fujifilm #SOoC
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First boom of our nectarine! #Yarden #HomeOrchard #BloomScrolling
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Our backyard nectarine is at first pink #Yarden #HomeOrchard #BloomScrolling
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Asian pears are ready for fresh eating! The yellow ones are New Century and the brown ones are Hosui. Our nectarines were hammered by the heat and recently got bug infested. But we harvested what we could & cooked them down. #HomeOrchard #AsianPears
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The Orange Dog caterpillar has emerged from the crysallis to start a new life as a butterfly. They are still unfolding their wings while perched on a twig of the white sapote.
These guys show up in spring as caterpillars with a head that looks like a snake. If you touch them, they even shoot out an antenna that looks like a reptile tongue. If that doesn't make them unappatizing to birds, their coloring might. Their color scheme makes them look like a bird turd on the leaf. So truly amazing the transformation to this winged beauty.
#Swallotailbutterfly
#metamorphosis
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Question, as I think about maintaining fruit tree varieties and possibly switching out within this, especially for my concern that in 20-30 years my hands won't work well enough to do grafting...
Will Air Layering work to propagate all varieties of fruit trees?