Oranges
Our tiny new seedless valencia orange treelet managed to squeeze out two perfect, very tasty, juicy oranges. Perfect timing for the winter flu battle. Next year, if we’re lucky, we might get three…
Orchard Update
While much of Australia has been coping with devastating flooding rains, we’ve been tightening up on our use of water and closely watching nearby fires. Rainfall for the past few months has been very minimal indeed. The figs on our...
Indestructible Figs
A recent marital “discussion” involved the stud rams enthusiastic “mowing” of a row in the orchard, which involved knocking over tree guards and stripping young trees of leaves, tender branches, and in one case, um, the whole trunk. Two of the...
Apricots of Old
Our very young apricot tree has been bent under the weight of an enormous number of apricots relative to its size. This little tree has been starved of water, blown about by gale force cold and hot winds, ignored and then finally given a little TLC in the last two...
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