Sunday, June 14, 2020

Garden Update by Cory




I am enjoying having terraces built, planting the newly made terrace gardens, and planting out fruit trees.

We have had good sunny days and enough rain so the local corn and beans are growing well.




We also worked on rock steps for the path around the back of our house.


 Many of the trees being planted also get a couple squash seeds in the planting hole. The tree and the squash get fertilizer and since phosphorus is the limiting mineral in most of the local soil, the trees should benefit in the long run from the residual phosphorus. Rain will probably be excessive now through October.

Since most trees we are planting take a few years to produce, I will start to include some photos from Port Margot to show what future harvests could look like.
A few years ago we started making an effort to take a photo each month of the fruits in season on the mission property. In the photo above, left to right, back row: squash, black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit), coconut, 2nd row from back: mango, atemoya, cacao, avocado, biriba (rollinia) unripe canistel (eggfruit). 3rd from back: 3 types of banana, star fruit, slice of breadfruit. 4th row: bilimbi, peach palm fruits, sapodilla. Front row: breadnuts, bird peppers, 2 barbados cherries (acerola, commercial source of vitamin C) miracle fruit, unusual passion fruit (sweet with floral taste).
Black Sapote



Cherimoya. This and sugar apple hybridized produce atemoya.
 Cherimoya is the best but needs some altitude to grow well in the tropics.


Egg fruit. Very sweet, makes excellent smoothies. Rich in vitamins and is
 filling, twice the calories of mango, a plus where hunger is common. 

Egg fruit

 




Peach Palms

More to post in the future.






1 comment:

Lorinda said...

Great update! I appreciate the photos and explanations.