Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Some fruits

When we bought our place here at Larnook, the fruit trees which were already here were: a lemon, tangello, mandarin, mango, grumichama, persimmon, mulberry, loquat, longan and pear.  We've added: finger lime, banana, lime, orange, lemonade, sambol, guava, feijoa, paw paw, black sapote, Davidson's plum, grape, blueberry, grumichama, Brazilian cherry, mammy sapote, yellow sapote, white sapote, another lemon, wampi, pomegranate, peanut butter tree and giant lau lau.
 So we had a big mango season - apparently mangos fruit only every second year so it will be 2015 again before we get to gorge ourselves on our mango fruit (although Shane wisely froze quite a bit of mango pulp this time).
 Davidson's plums, a native rainforest fruiting tree, the fruit of which grow from the trunk. Although edible, they only become so with a heap of sugar and stewed into a jam.
 We have a couple of grape varieties
 This is one of the two fruit on my wampi tree. It has now turned a yellow colour so I'm going to try it in the next few days.
And OK, not a fruit, but gee it's been a great season for basil. Shane made a very delicious pesto which we had with pasta last night.

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