What’s Fruiting

First carambolas of the season, Kary’s from our well-established tree NW-G-1. It’s a sweet, richly flavored variety, perhaps our favorite. We thin them for better fruit quality and more flavor. Our Kary’s should show up at Jessica’s some time later this year.

Sapodillas are now in commercial production, with the first Alano’s sold this year. Many people’s favorite sapodilla variety.

Mango season is in full swing, although the January 17 freeze cut in to our production. Glenn’s and Mallika’s have been harvested, but the Maha Chanok’s, tree EG-D-2, are just starting.

Finally, mango season is here. The first Cogshall mangos are ready. Not a large crop this year, but going on sale at Jessica’s June 29.

May is peach season here in Florida. Our Tropic Beauty peach tree SW-K-3 has produced its first market crop, going on sale this weekend (May 11-13) at Jessica’s.

All three of our Surinam Cherry shrubs, SW-H-2, SW-H-3, and SW-H-4, are fruiting now. The dark variety we use lacks the resinous taste of the common red variety. With its rich sweet-sour flavor, it is a fine fruit that substitute for raspberries, which are not adapted to Florida’s climate.

The first fruit off of EG-D-8, a Coronada Jaboticaba. The flavor is distinctly cherrylike. After a complicated history, this tree seems finally to have hit its stride.  

EG-B-2, a Sabara jaboticaba, is off to a good start in 2018, with a nice first crop of the year. We have approval to sell jaboticabas at Jessica’s as soon as production is sufficient. If the other big Sabaras start producing as well as EG-B-2, it won’t be long.

Our lemon crop is down quite a bit from last year, perhaps because of hurricane Irma or perhaps just because our big Bearss tree needed a rest. But we’ll have some to sell at Jessica’s Organic Farm Stand the weekend of February 2-4. It’s our first sale through this venue, …

Carambola, or starfruit, has a nice long fruiting season. Unfortunately we lost most of this year’s starfruit crop due to Hurricane Irma—- starfruit is not a very wind-tolerant tree, and we had to strip the fruit and a lot of the foliage before the big blow. Farmin’ ain’t easy! But …