- Joined
- 14 Mar 04
- Moves
- 210778
@fmf saidAt the moment none. It's late winter here and the crops are not in yet.
What vegetables or fruits are growing in or around your home?
There is a local group called incredible edible (affiliated to something national I think). They do what they call hedgerow farming. They planted some apple trees along a local footpath. Brought a lot of people together caring for the path. Year before last a white van turns up, strips the trees of apples and disappears with the lot.
We have blackberries growing amongst the gorse bushes on a heath by us. Well maintained allotments near by, but a massive wait for those.
@fmf saidFruit - wise we currently and pretty much always have bananas, papayas, coconuts and pineapples. Also mangusteen (how do you spell that?) , mango, rambutan, jackfruit, star fruit, dragon fruit and lemon trees, none of which are fruiting at the moment.
What vegetables or fruits are growing in or around your home?
It's feast or famine with the mangos, we have several big trees and in season we get hundreds of them, which we pulp - up and freeze, so we get mango pulp all year.
We don't grow much veg, apart from a lot of ubi, (yams/sweet potatoes) which we don't eat much of ourselves but it currently keeps the village fed. (If they can't afford rice they eat our ubi) .
We also grow chilies (of course) and have some clove and cinnamon trees, and Paula is currently feeling very proud because we have the first nutmegs on our nutmeg tree! Only three so far, but it's a start....If we get ten next year we intend to go into the export business.
Oh yes, and a cashew nut tree, also not currently fruiting. We didn't know before we moved here how cashew nuts grew, one nut per fruit, and the fruit is very acidic and takes the skin off your hands, little wonder that cashew nuts are so expensive. We tried growing vanilla pods (it's a kind of orchid) but that didn't work. I think that's about it.
Back in the 1980s we had a local politician looking to be elected.
A local guy wanted his street to be tree lined.
I'll look after that for you the politician said....and he did.
He topped the poll and got elected to the Dail which is our national parliament here in Ireland.
The following week a truck arrived and removed all the trees.
@indonesia-phil saidI thought that you only grew onions.😄😉
Fruit - wise we currently and pretty much always have bananas, papayas, coconuts and pineapples. Also mangusteen (how do you spell that?) , mango, rambutan, jackfruit, star fruit, dragon fruit and lemon trees, none of which are fruiting at the moment.
It's feast or famine with the mangos, we have several big trees and in season we get hundreds of them, which we pulp ...[text shortened]... We tried growing vanilla pods (it's a kind of orchid) but that didn't work. I think that's about it.
@indonesia-phil saidLucky you. We have pretty much the same fruits around here. As for the cashews, the skin is poisonous. When its roasted the skin falls off. The freshly roasted cashews is a taste you wont forget... nothing like the processed ones.
Fruit - wise we currently and pretty much always have bananas, papayas, coconuts and pineapples. Also mangusteen (how do you spell that?) , mango, rambutan, jackfruit, star fruit, dragon fruit and lemon trees, none of which are fruiting at the moment.
It's feast or famine with the mangos, we have several big trees and in season we get hundreds of them, which we pulp ...[text shortened]... We tried growing vanilla pods (it's a kind of orchid) but that didn't work. I think that's about it.
