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eeos, re greenhouse.

Posted by treefrog @ 20:57 on January 13, 2015  

the greenhouse is a work in progress.  i keep working on it, sealing up cracks, adding wiring and plumbing, etc.  it’s made it through two winters and kept most of the contents alive and happy.

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here it is last summer with the bananas parked outside – in the winter they’re inside, and it’s a lot more crowded.

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“still life with rainwater tank and avocado trees.”  there are actually four avocado trees showing here.  “mexicola” to the left of the tank, “wurtz dwarf”  to the right of the tank.  “brazos belle” in right foreground, in front of the ladder, and “joey” is showing a single leaf in bottom left corner.  here’s the same shot a few months later.  note how much more of the tank is covered.

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so far, i’ve had small harvests of avocado, mango, and banana, and more guavas than i could eat.  this coming year looks like there will be a larger harvest.

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avocado blossom buds (“brazos belle”).

this is a long term project.  mostly i’m dealing with trees, and they take longer to develop than garden veggies like tomatoes and lettuce.  if you want to do this, don’t delay.  my only regret is that i didn’t start years earlier.

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with luck, i’ll be eating a pineapple from this plant by august.  “variegated sugarloaf” variety.  low acid, high sugar content, soft edible core.  its softness is the reason most folk will never taste one.  it doesn’t ship well.  produce managers don’t like it, it gets bruised in transit, so they buy (almost exclusively), “smooth cayenne,” the variety you’re used to.  it’s firm, (you might say hard) and doesn’t bruise.  ripe? sweet? not so much, but that only counts after it has passed the bar-code scanner, so the produce managers don’t care.

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