I've fought temptation and not picked any avocados for a week and a half. The earlier ones I picked never ripened properly so I'm going to just let them 'sit' on the tree until they appear to mature more. What that means I have no idea since at this point they all still look the same. Will check back in a week.
Roses are doing better on the sunnier side of the planting. The shadier side never had issues until the geraniums started overgrowing, the aloe plant turned monstrous and the ivy from next door started invading everything like a green blob.
I've machete'd the geraniums back, yanked a few gobs of ivy out with a steel rake and am ready to do one-on-one with the aloe. The rose plants benefiting from all of this battle royal seem so far unimpressed and seem content to simply sit there.
The upside down tomato plant has put out more flowers and one tomato bud. We'll see.
The lemon, orange, mandarin and tangelo dwarf trees all have green fruit on them. The lime has none yet. The small buds had been yellowing and falling off but a few are hanging in there. I should know in a week or so if they will turn into fruit.
The dwarf lime had the worst bug infestation and resulting leaf curl. The application of Sevin hasn't burned any foliage. The ants which used to crawl all over the place are gone. Hopefully the leaf curlers are as well. Waiting for new shoots to sprout out where I had pruned off the deformed leaves.
Dwarf apple is still a dwarf as it should be. The three apples are still pretty small. I worry the possum will just eat them one night.
Monday, August 9, 2010
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