Re: Weekend Report

These dates are not edible, Donna. Don't think they'd harm you--just very little flesh between that plastic-like skin and the pit. I don't know how old the tree is; it was here when we bought the place. Whoever planted it, however, planted it under the power line, so we had one of the nursery crews move it before the power company decided to behead it.

And, yes, one sees lots of fruit trees in the neighborhoods--mango, because many of them are so colorful, are easily spotted. And, of course, citrus. Almost every house has some kind of citrus tree. Bananas, sometimes. Lots of loquats because it is frequently used as a small landscape tree. Papayas, coconuts, lychees and longans. Citrus and mango are by far the most common, though. Kind of like apples and peaches up north.


On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 09:22 AM, Donna wrote:

Egads.. that is a A lot of dates there..... glad the women have a
plan.....can't imagine what you would do with all of those, surely can't eat
them all....

I know for us northerns, that is a strange site, but is it common to see
bunches of dates (as well as other fruits, such as bananas) as you drive
around your area? Just curious....

My excess fruit (so far only plums and peaches) turns into jelly when
everyone I know gives me the look as I try to hand them more fruit <lol>.
Not sure what I am going to do this year... got cases of jelly downstairs
already....

Donna

The dates are only about 7 feet off the ground. I can reach most of
them.

On Saturday, February 5, 2005, at 07:57 PM, Kitty wrote:


Wow! Can you reach that high or do you have to climb, Jim?  That's
amazing.
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: "Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:46 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Weekend Report
Our old queen palm [Syagrus romanzoffiana] flowered and fruited this
year, as it does every year. But when my two favorite teachers--Ms
Fatma and Ms Whelma--noticed it this year, they thought "teaching unit
with products to sell at open house." Today, the queen's dates began
to
ripen, so I began to pick them [palm dates do not ripen all at once,
but over a period of weeks]. Pictures of the queen and her dates can
be
found at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jsinger2003/
album?.dir=639e&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//
pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jsinger2003/
my_photos%3furlhint=actn,del%253as,1%253af,0

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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