THOSE who read this column every week will notice the main theme of all these stories is having a beautiful garden and saving money in the process by keeping seed (like tomatoes), growing new pineapples (from the pups) or just planting a piece of frangipani in the ground and waiting for it to grow.
There is such an array of plants that one can grow new ones from, all for nothing!
Today, this column would like to talk about fruit trees. It’s likely most readers have grown a lemon tree or have one, producing fruit each year. This is probably the most popular and are fairly easy to grow and look after.
However today a mention goes to two fruit trees that are dead easy to grow and year after year keep producing fruit to add to your diet.
First one is the lime, although not as popular as a lemon is, it keeps producing fruit throughout the year, there always seems like new ones evolving.
Much like a lemon in appearance, it’s more green than yellow, but the best time to pick for that different tarty flavour is when yellow is seen on the fruit.
The next is a favourite of mine, the mandarin, is a roundish fruit, made in sections, for easy eating and slightly flattened on two sides.
Only fruiting once a year and depending on the age of the tree and it’s growth it fruits prolifically from a young age.
Pests rarely bother it and a light trim each year will bring new thicker growth which in turn bring on more fruit, while trimming to shape allows easier picking of the fruit.
There are a number of varieties available, however I’ve found that those larger ones with the thicker skin are easier to peel than the small, almost “orange looking” fruit.
Till next time!
