What’s Fruiting

This colorful miniature mango fruit has a thin skin and a great flavor. An early-season favorite.

Lychees are temperamental fruiters, and only our Kwai Mai Pink tree produced any fruit, a small but delicious crop that went to a private buyer. All we can say is wait ’till next year!

Plum season follows peach season, and our single small plum tree SW-A-1 has been productive this year. Oddly, the birds didn’t seem to notice this year’s crop. It’s mostly sold, to private customers and to our St. Petersburg friends at Kenwood Organic Produce.

May is peach season here in Florida. After the warm winter, plus the heavy thinning we always do to improve fruit quality and minimize stress on our trees, this year’s crop is relatively light. It’s mostly sold, to private customers and to our St. Petersburg friends at Kenwood Organic Produce. …

Five of our six big Sabara jaboticabas are fruiting, four of them heavily. So far this season five pounds have gone to market. We expect to deliver more, mainly to Jessica’s Organic Farm, during the next several weeks.

Today we harvested most of the fruit from our smaller red navel orange tree NW-F-4. They will be at Jessica’s Organic Farm Stand this weekend. The red navel, or Cara Cara orange, was a natural mutation discovered in 1976 in Valencia, Venezuela. The red flesh color comes from carotenoids, rather than the …

Jujubes have begun their short winter season. This rarely seen small fruit is moderately sweet, with an appealing apple-like flavor and texture. This year’s crop will be smaller than last year’s. We’re not sure why, but maybe our jujube tree NW-I-2 is just taking it easy this year.

Lemon season has started, and it looks like a good year. We should have some on sale at Jessica’s Organic Farm Stand most weekends.

The striking Parrish Red avocado SW-C-1 ripens to a deep red color. An ultra-rare local variety propagated from a tree in Parrish, Florida by our friend Wayne Clifton. Planted only two years ago as a 3-gallon tree, the vigorous grower has produced its first half dozen fruit and is already …

Last fall’s post-Irma pruning on our Persian lime tree NE-D-1 worked wonders for its branch structure, and it’s yielded a nice summer crop. Naturally, we are eating as many as we can, but fifteen will be included with this week’s delivery to Jessica’s. Big, freshly harvested, rich-flavored, and Sarasota-grown.