In the Garden

I've been enjoying gardening lately, when I get the chance -- it seems like I never have enough time to get everything done in the yard that I'd like to do, but I still enjoy it.

The new passion fruit vine has finally taken off!  It has smaller more round fruit than our other vine. 
I'm curious to see if the fruit on this kind of vine has a different taste than the other kind.  

The blackberries are actually producing lots of berries this season.

I've been faithfully fertilizing the lemon & lime trees every other month, and it looks like it's paying off:
we finally have a little fruit on our little Mexican lime tree!

Avocados, woohoo!

We didn't know if this little Atemoya tree would make it -- we ordered it from a nursery in Florida, and it was mistakenly delivered when we were out of town, and sat in a box on our doorstep without being watered for a week.  The sad tiny tree had barely any leaves left, and we were sure it would die, but we planted it just in case.  Glad we did!  It has at least doubled it's height in the last year.  And we just noticed this little buds on it.  Maybe it will actually produce fruit here.  

Wow, so many passion fruit this season!!!

I'm realizing that it looks like this passion fruit vine only produces fruit on the new season's growth.  Meaning that I can't follow my original plan of just letting the vine grow to cover the arbor and then trimming off the extra vines that grow more than that. So every once in a while I need to go out and wrap all the new vines into the older growth.  I just did that this week again, so it looks nice and neat.  

And last year in October our boys wanted to plant pumpkins for Halloween.  So this spring I planted several pumpkin & cool squash plants.  Hopefully they'll be ready by Fall.