Wednesday, September 8, 2010

End of summer fruits!

If I could do a virtual cut of this charentais melon below, you would be stunned by the gorgeous orange color and would be hit by its fragrant scent. This melon is a total winner and is a MUST for your garden next year if you have not yet tried it. It's a sweet cantaloupe with perfect texture, perfect everything. In my little garden, one vine managed to produce about 5 of these guys with total neglect. I'm certain you could do even better! I cover the melons with bird netting to keep them safe from raccoons.


'Anne' raspberries - also a winner - lovely golden color, really nice sweet raspberry taste!


'Black diamond' watermelon, recommended by the watermelon guy on a road in rural South Carolina. Haven't cut into it yet - fearful to move it and find damage underneath, on this sole watermelon. No pressure little guy.


The bright red berries of the asparagus all ferned out. I'll need to look into this to see if they can be eaten - I can't see why not...


At my dad's house, the date trees are completely covered.


These are honeydew-type Asian melons below. Very thin outer rind - people eat the rind as well (I don't, but my mom swears it's OK to). If I sent you seeds last month labeled "Asian melon", these are the melons you'll get. Really sweet and yummy.


Pomegranates - and such pretty flowers too!


Soon to come in a future post - MORE fruit. As you can see in this post, last year we began our first annual fall apple-picking event, and I think that time is rolling around again! Are you all feeling fruity too?

14 comments:

  1. Wendy, your summer fruits look great! Those cream-colored golden raspberries look really delicious. I've been blogging about my one cantaloupe grown from seed from a supermarket melon, and I still have another two weeks to go before it will be ready. Just thinking about cutting into it makes me feel a little nervous. My expectations are high! :-)

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  2. Wendy, your melons and raspberries look yummy! That's a red date tree? Love the Pomegranates also. All the best for your black diamond :-D

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  3. Hi Wendy, Every day I grab me a handful or two of berries, straws, rasps and blues. I've been buying fresh off the tree apples and peaches. Yep I'm feeling fruity for sure. I LOVE fresh fruit!

    Maybe I'll try that melon next year. :)

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  4. Oooh, that is a melon I'll have to try growing. Your description of it sounds amazing. I am so impressed that your dad is growing dates. I have never seen anyone growing that before. And you are growing Pomegranates! Are you growing the dwarf variety? I was thinking of buying a plant from Gurneys. Not sure yet because I don't know how big it gets.

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  5. Hi Wendy, 5 melons in one vine is fantastic. I only had one pumpkin out of a very huge vine. You do have a very fruitful garden. You were saying there are more? Wow!

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  6. Yes, I feel very fruity right NOW! Envy your melons, look so delicious and mouth-watering, although both charentais melon and asian melon look new to me, and I don't think I have ever tasted them before. I only have papaya in my garden that is currently bearing the fruits. I also grow one pomgranate majorly for its beautiful flower. It started from a seed from store-bought pomgranate.

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  7. I wish I could grow fruit like that! But in Manhattan, I'm limited to whatever grows in pots. We do have strawberries, but in all honesty, they're not very productive. And our blueberry efforts ended in complete disaster...

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  8. Those are tasty looking. I am incredibly jealous. I had a melon growing at one time and a mouse decided to bite into it.
    You are uber-talented at growing...do you know that?

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  9. Lovely fruit! You inspire to go to the farmers' market.

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  10. I am very disappointed in my melons this year and so jealous of yours. I had total crop failure! I was attempting to grow 2 cultivars: "Collective Farm Woman" from Russia and "Oka" melon from Montreal, both of which were said to do well in shorter growing seasons. I followed the instructions on the seed packets, but the plants, after growing and creeping and sending out tiny little "melon-ettes," simply browned and shriveled. Of course, I watered them during our very dry summer, so they didn't dry up. Any advice for me, or should I just move on to something else next year?

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  11. Hi Wendy, all the fruit looks so wonderful, congrats to you and your dad for fantastic produce. I've never seen white raspberries before - must be like white chocolate only healthier! cheers, cm

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  12. Wendy, you have been one busy girl, I am exhauted just reading what you have been up to. And hungry too, think I will go have breakfast.

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  13. Love your blog. Nice images and good info. Browsed through your posts and think they are great. Will keep in mind for reading leisure later.

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  14. Wow That's a lot of fruits! Love your Pomegranates and Asian melon!!

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