Wow mikey,those look great!!! I'm just down the freeway from you in S.D.county.While i always take pictures of my flowers,i never intentionally take them of the etables.We do have 3 volunteer tomato plants that came up,but they are still green.We also have a meyer lemon,that we've gotten a few ripe ones from already,but there are still more green ones on there.We also have an asian pear,a valencia orange,tangerine,and a tangelo(i think it is).Also peach,apricot and nectarine.Dh also planted a kumquat,why i don't know as neither of us likes them.Our prize fruit tree is a yellow plum that a lot of people never heard of.I've had mine since the 80's and it's a great producer.Oh and we also have a grapefruit,that neither of us can no longer eat because of meds we take,so we give them to friends,neighbors and the local senior center.For the past 4 years or so we had these ornamental peppers,that i bought because i liked the plant,but my neighbors ate them.I didn't think they were etable,but they said they were,so i let them have as many as they wanted.Havn't seen those come back this year though.

My favorite things are the flowers,lol,nothing surprising there huh,coming from a woman!! Itell all my family and friends that i want my flowers now,while i can see and smell them,not when i'm dead.LOL

Oh and we also have blackberries and strawberries.
TFS your garden.
Kathi

The bananas I did not grow.
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Wow, great fruits and produces all of you! I don't have a camera to show my "Good Eats", but had a great abundance of Haas avocados; towards the end, some thief came into my yard at night and stole what was left on the tree. My valencia and grapefruit trees continue to produce heavily. Growing some heirloom tomatoes, but most of their names escape me at the moment (cherry tomato, Sugar Baby Girl, quite delicious; __ Anna Russian tomato, delicious but the skin is quite thick; Green Zebra; Black Brandywine (sp); Lemon Boy and some other yellow colored tomato), and Roma as always a heavy producer; havested all my seedless grapes, yummy; lemon grass for tea; love to snack on kumquats when I am out watering; a few scallions and chili peppers to use with scrambled, fresh eggs from my three hens; Anna apple tree had problems this year I believe because of the extremely hot weather we've had. I did get a few good apples, but not like years past. I freeze tomatoes for later use to make sauce or put in soups, just cut in half, freeze on a cookie sheet or plate, then put in baggy; juice oranges, lemons and grapefruit for fresh juice and use orange juice to make popsicles; freeze basil for later use and fresh basil cut up in salads. I also have the following trees/plants that are not producing right now or just starting: Santa Rosa plum, pear, peach, nectarine, banana, naval orange, two volunteer fig trees (can't wait till they produce!), pippin or granny smith? apple tree with fruit smaller than a golf ball right now, and growing japanese cucumbers (fruit not yet mature), watermelon and ambrosia cantalope. As the rest of you, I too give lots of stuff away to family and friends :-).

Gorgeous pictures, everyone! I will take some pics this weekend of our peppers, tomatoes, maui onions, and tangerines.

Mikey I see you are really enjoying your retirement. I'm interested in growing grapes -- is it difficult and do you need a large area (like a gazebo) for them to grow on?

Awesome pictures Mikey! I noticed your in Cypress. That's only about 15 minutes from me. I would really like to hear more about your grapes, do they fruit consistently here. I just got myself a Thompson seedless this year and would like to try different varieties.

Some habaneros, very hot peppers.
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Dragonfruits, had to pick some a little earlier because some smart bird starting pecking through the skin.
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Wax jambus, I got 2 fruit from this tiny plant in a pot, it was delicious. In the next month and a half the plants that are in the ground will ripen, can't wait.
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There some other fruit trees also but the fruits are no where near ripe this time of the year.

Peachiekean: That's quite a variety of peppers you've grown. Very nice looking.

Jen: Yes, retirement is fun. I grow my grapes over a patio/arbor. They provide food & shade...

Eggo: That's some exotic fruit you have. I've wanted to try eating a dragon fruit but
I have not done so yet. I'm unfamiliar with your Wax Jambus but the plant is indeed productive.

Mikey, I tend to lean towards the more non commercial fruits especially tropicals and subtropicals. The dragonfruits in the store are really bad, don't let that be your first one. You should try growing some, they're so easy in our area, the hardest part would be putting together a trellis system for them and providing some shade. An 8 inch cutting will usually go from cutting to fruiting specimen in about a year if grown properly here. Your more than welcome to some cuttings, if your ever interested feel free to contact me. The jambus are a treat, their a bit more unpredictable in our area. The fruits are best off a tree and stores extremely poorly.

Here are a few tasty items that I've brought in this season. :)

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I am also in Cypress! Howdy, neighbor. I'm so jealous! I don't have any "eats" to show you, though - they all died. I'm a bad tomato grower.

Anyone near me - can you help me? I've been trying to get some tomatoes and strawberries growing, (especially strawberries since the roadside stand I love closed) can't seem to get it together. And why is it when I tried to get a Meyer lemon and a fig tree, I was told I couldn't have them in CA? Very strange, no lemons in CA!

Gigi

Hi Gigi. Someone is giving you bad advice there neighbor. You should have no problem at all
growing figs and lemons. I have a couple of figs in pots and a Meyer lemon in the ground and all are doing great. I
also have an orange tree, tangelo tree and avocado tree. Although, not all parts of Cypress are the same.
I live near the Community Center and I have very sandy soil but I spoke once with someone who lives down near Orangewood and she said they have clay soil....

I know what you mean about the strawberry fields disappearing. Very sad. Wev'e been getting ours by that
water ride place next to the 91 freeway.

By the way. One of the above photos was oversized which now causes text to run off the viewing screen. So if
anyone wants to respond and have folks read it without having to scroll to the right, I suggest typing in two sentences
and then hit the enter key to drop your text down to the next line......

Let me try this .
Is it working?? Trying to get the size right so it doesn't go off the screen.

Nope,didn't work,or maybe i'm doing it wrong.Not the most computor literate on here for sure.
Kathi

I will have to try again. The strawberries I have tried in a "strawberry pot", and once in a hanging pot. Also tried in a planter I have that's better than the main yard. I cried when the strawberry farm closed.

I'm near Lincoln and Moody, so not far from you at all. And I have the worst soil. Heavy, clay, like a sponge - no drainage or very little. Water runs right off the grass in the front yard, it's mostly dead. I plan to till and enrich when the weather cools off, re-plant the grass, fix the beds, etc. Small yard, so hopefully won't take too long. It's really dreadful but I can see great things ... For my roses, etc, I dig out a hole about 2-3X what I need (with a pick-ax and brut force) and then fill the hole with better soil. I am looking forward to the day I can plant something without breaking my back or using a jack-hammer.

Yes, you are quite close. That's weird your soil and mine are so different. I wonder if one of us has fill??
Swing by and visit if you like. I'm on the corner of Peach and Lime. I have a country garden out front that
always have monarch butterflies visiting. You're welcome to come sit in the patio out front and we'll sip on some
lemonade and watch the butterflies and hummingbirds. - Mike