Last month many fruits were ripe in Jacques’ garden that are still available here in November: pomegranates, dragon fruit, pineapple guavas, tamarillos, and persimmons. So we skipped over those in this tour, but we did find a few new items to taste: longans, autumn olives, and mangos (maybe mangos).
Also, we take side trips to look at Jacques’ chickens and how he uses their manure in his garden, and we assess a young avocado tree that is struggling.
More about:
Previous months in Jacques’ garden: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October.
Thank you for your support so I can keep this website ad-free!
All of my Yard Posts are listed here
The Reed also doesn’t have as many sun burnt leaves as the Fuerte. Perhaps there was a difference in the shading on a couple of hot days? That new growth seems promising given its challenges. Maybe give it one more season to see if the girdling sealed its fate?
My old fuerte dosen’t have any buds. There were years when we had hundreds that we’d pick in December
Early this year we probably had 2000, but most were the size of ping pong balls
Any thoughts? I’m in Sierra Madre where most neighbors have trees
Thx
Thanks for the interesting garden tour. Maybe a post in the future about dangers to young avocados – when or when not to pull a young one or even an older one. Keep ’em coming!
Hi Larry,
Good idea. I did do a similar post a while back, but it was focused on younger trees: https://gregalder.com/yardposts/when-to-give-up-on-an-avocado-tree/
What I’ve seen a lot of lately is people moving into houses and inheriting old, sickly avocado trees and then wondering if they can be revived and how. Unfortunately, most of the time such trees are best removed. This needs a post to show photos and explain nuances though.