It looks like the backyard may yield a fair amount of fruits and veggies for our eating pleasure this year, and we haven’t even done much to it in terms of amending the soil, new planting, etc.
There were several fruit trees here when we moved in. We’ve got three trees that appear to be citrus of some sort, one of them with fruit on it. It looks like lemons, but it’s hard to tell until they either turn yellow or don’t.
There’s also a nectarine, which is one of my favorites. It looks like it’s got a problem with some curly leave disease, so we’ll have to take care of that, but it’s still got fruit on it that I can’t wait to eat.
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There is a persimmon as well. Did you know that persimmons were known in ancient Greece as “fruit of the gods”?
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Then there is the mystery bush. It’s got tiny berries on it that look dark purple or black when ripened. They may or may not be edible, but we are staying away from it for the time being.
Of course, we planted a few things ourselves. Three tomato plants, a cucumber, and some strawberries, to be exact. The strawberries may be done. We previously posted pictures of the small berries, but they’ve since been eaten. One of the tomato plants has some fruit on it, as does the cucumber.
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I think the strawberry nibbling varmint is probably a bird . . . I have a few strawberries in a large pot on the decking and they finally discovered there were berries underneath all those leaves. You might consider draping some netting over the plants (lightweight) when they are producing the berries. In fact, we probably have some here if you’d like.