fruit – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

MY FIGS

It is definitly Autumn now although the temperatures are still above normal. We had a LOT of rain and part of my country is under water. There are still a lot of leafs on the trees.

There is not much to see in my garden, I still have a few flowers, roses and fuchsia’s and my Skimmia Kew Green has many buds who are waiting for Spring.

Skimmia Kew Green has white flowers and normally it has green buds this time of the year but the buds are already white now. This shrub is by far the prettiest thing that I have in my garden at the moment.

My fig tree looks ugly at the moment, it needs a good cut but the best time to cut off branches of a fig tree is between Christmas and New Year if it is not freezing.

As you can see it is still full of figs, alas they won’t ripe anymore as for figs it is too cold.

Another view of my figs.

I cut my fig three down really hard every year as I don’t have the space to let it grow like it normally grows but each year it gives me a lot of juicy figs. And the birds in the garden loves them too. I just can’t keep them off.

I hope you are all ok and enjoying your garden.

Take care !

April 24, 2023

MY FUTURE APPLES

I have two apple trees in my garden, they are tall and narrow; they are created for small gardens and they give me many apples, the flowers look the same but the apples are different. You can even plant them on a balcony in a big pot and keep it small.

This is a small piece of my youngest and smallest apple tree, last year it didn’t have one apple but by the looks of it I’ll get plenty this year. These trees struggle a bit for a few years after planting but it gave me apples already, just not last year. Gardening teaches you to have patience sometimes.

This is the biggest and gives me lots of apples each year.

I love to have a bit of fruit in my garden, I have a huge fig tree and a monster of a blue grape vine who lives in my greenhouse.

What fruit have you in your garden ?

Have a great week all !

December 11, 2022

LAST APPLE ON MY TREE

This apple is the last one on my apple tree, mind you it is half eaten by the birds on the other side but it refuses to fall on the ground. All the leafs are gone but you can already see the new buds for next year. Nature is wonderful, isn’t it !

Have a great week, a Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year !!

June 22, 2022

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

July 5, 2021

APPLES

Lately we have been having very wet, windy and cool weather with lots of thunder so my garden doesn’t look it’s best but it is green and lush and growing, only the flowers look a bit tatty at the moment. So here’s an update on my appletree’s I showed you a while ago.

**these are the apple flower buds in april**

**both my mini apple tree’s had loads of buds**

**this is the youngest and the smallest of the 2, it had lots of flowers but no apples, there were tiny apples but they all fell off**

**this is the biggest of the 2 and it has quite a bit of apples at the moment**, **last year it had none**

**Here you can see one of them and they are groing nicely as you can see**

I hope you all had a wonderfull 4th of July weekend.

Take care and have a wonderful week.

April 22, 2021

OPEN FOR BUZZY-NESS

**MY APPLEBLOSSOM IS FINALLY OPEN TO RECEIVE THE BEE’S FOR POLLINATION.**

I have a LOT of appleblossom this year. I have 2 appletree’s, one had no flowers at all last year, they other one just a few, so no apples in the end. This year I am really hopeful. I’ll keep you posted and let you know how it is going as there is a lot that can go wrong. I did give them dried cow’s manure last year, maybe they needed it.

Have a great day and enjoy the sun if you have a sunny day.

April 16, 2021

TODAY IN THE GARDEN

**THE LEAFS ARE STILL TINY, THEY WILL NEED TIME TO MATURE**

I covered my fig during Winter, when we got our first beautiful Spring days I removed the coverings. Then all of a sudden we got a few unexpected nightfrosts and my fig tree took a beating, frozen tiny figs, frozen leafbuds…. But now it is slowly recovering and leafbuds are opening and here and there I finds tiny figs. The one above is the biggest. I fear I won’t have a lot of figs this year, as the first batch were frozen. But hey, my fig tree is still alive !

Have a great weekend !

April 13, 2021

TODAY IN THE GARDEN

Spring is cold, too cold for the time of the year with night frosts, rain, snow, sleet, wind….. but it is definitely Spring according to my plants cos once in a while we get lovely sunny and soft days too.

Look what I found in the garden today.

Apple blossom buds and lots of them. I really hope I’ll get apples this year. Last year I had one apple tree with not a single flower and the other one had just 3 buds but I gave them a lot of food last year so now I have lots of buds. Keep your fingers crossed ! I’ll let you know in Autumn ok.

September 7, 2020

DISASTER IN THE GREENHOUSE

I have a big grapevine in the greenhouse and it looked very promising for a long time, I never had so many big bunches of grapes as this year. But ofcourse they need time to ripen. Now that they all finally ripe and ready to eat they are attacted by hundreds of wasps eating away all my lovely grapes !! It is just dangerous entering the greenhouse at the moment. The also eat away the bell peppers and the tomatoes, not as bad as the grapes, but they are damaged too. The only veg they didn’t attack are the hot chilli peppers.

It is a problem many fruit growers have at the moment over here in Europe, they are everywhere where there is lovely sweet juicy fruit. A disaster for the professional fruit growers, more than for me ofcourse. But there is not much you can do apparently. I looked it up on the net.

**THIS IS HOW THE GRAPES LOOK AT THE MOMENT, YOU CAN SEE THE WASPS SITTING ON THEM. THEY JUST SUCKED ALL THE JUICE OUT.** (the picture is bad but I had to get out fast !!)

Well I suppose there are worse things in life, but it is such a waste of good fruit.

Have a great week you all and keep safe !

July 19, 2020

A PEEK IN MY GREENHOUSE

**MY GRAPES ARE DOING GREAT, I HAVE SO MANY BIG BUNCHES THIS YEAR**

**MY TOMATOES STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO** **AS YOU CAN SEE**

**IT WILL BE A HOT WINTER AS I HAVE SOOOOOO MANY HOT PEPPERS, THESE ARE RED PEPPERS SO THEY NEED TO GET THE RIGHT COLOR YET.**

Our Summer is not very hot so far so everything is a bit later than usual. We get a lot of rain and rather cool temperatures but I’m not complaining. We do need all the rain we can get as we had several hot Summers in a row and there are not many reserves underground yet.

I hope you are all having a great time, enjoy your garden and take care !

Have a great week !