#29 - New Fig Cultivar - Texas Everbearing #2

New Fig Cultivar for Fall 2014 from Legg Creek Farm. Legg Creek gives a free fruit tree with every order. With the plum purchase I made in November, they sent me a Texas Everbearing Fig Tree.

This is Texas Everbearing Fig tree #2. The Texas Everbearing Fig Tree is a medium-sized fig tree that produces very sweet, amber-colored figs. It is one of the most commonly-grown fig trees in the southern US, and tolerates a wide range of temperature. Usually starts bearing figs its first year! Makes 2 crops of figs per year: one ripens in May, and the other in in August. Texas Everbearing figs are tasty, and nearly seedless. Self-fertile. 150 chill hours. Zones 7-10.

#28 - New Plum Cultivars

New Plum Cultivars for Fall 2014 from Legg Creek Farm

 

The Burbank Plum is a popular commercial variety with purplish-red skin and yellow flesh. Sold in super markets. Tasty and has a long shelf life. Tree is relatively compact. Brought from Japan by Luther Burbank. Pollination with Santa Rosa. 400 chill hours. Zones 5-9.

 

 

 

The Rubrum Plum  tree is long-lived and highly disease resistance. Produces heavy crops of medium-sized, dark red plums with juicy red flesh. Needs a pollinator for best results, and serves as a great pollinator for other plums we sale. Ripens mid-June. 500 chill hours. Zones 5-8.

The Methley Plum  tree is our earliest producing plum. The Methley is large, sweet, and has red flesh. The characteristic red inside of the plum is unusual and the sweetness will compare to any other juicy plum. The Methley plum has a long shelf life and can be used in supermarkets for fresh plum sales. The Methley plum is a quality plum with an attractive appearance. Heat resistant. Fruit ripens in June. Less than 150 chill hours! Zones 6-10.

The Allred Plum  trees is an outstanding dual purpose tree. It has attractive reddish foliage, and quality plums in season with tender red flesh. Allred is a great landscape tree that produces fine quality plums. Ripens mid-summer. Self-fertile. 400 chill hours. Zones 6-9.

The Santa Rosa Plum  tree produces plums that have a delicious flavor. The fruit is large, attractive, dark reddish purple color with red flesh. The fruit is firm and of good quality. One of the most frequently planted Japanese plums. Self-pollinating. 300 chill hours. Zones 6-9.

#27 - New Apple Cultivars

New Apple Cultivars for 2014 from Kuffel Creek

 

 

Dixie Red Delight

 

 

Reverend Morgan

 

 

 

Fuji

 

 

 

King David

 

 

 

Fuji

 

 

 

Arkcharm

 

 

 

King David

 

 

 

Dixie Red Delight

 

 

 

Arkcharm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#26 - Pomegranate Angel Red

This will be the primary for Guild #3. A Pomegranate Angel Red cultivar. Established summer of 2014.

Planted in a hugelkultur raised bed. Needs a little pruning.

#25 - Persimmon Rootstock

I bought a Asian Persimmon tree that died. But I noticed the rootstock started to send up shoots. So now I will try to cultivate my own rootstock for my future persimmon trees.

#24 - Apple Tree Grafting

These are the first apple trees that I have grafted. I don't know what variety they will be until the trees bare fruit. I bought rootstock from One Green World and cut my own Scion wood from my own fruit trees, but forgot to label which trees I took cuttings from.

I grafted 5 total. I grafted the scion wood onto M-7 rootstock. Apple trees on semi-dwarf M-7 rootstock typically grow 12-16 ft. in height.

#23 - Pomegranate Propagation in a Pot

I had a late freeze kill my above ground Pomegranate, Angel Red, the reason was because I didn't repot the plant into a bigger pot. The good thing was that the root system was still good and alive. So I had the idea of propagating the plant by putting a ring around the shoots that were springing forth and there by causing the shoots to root out. Then you can cut out the ones that have rooted and start new plants. Not sure it will work. Only time will tell.

These are garden bed borders I found at Lowes.

The ideal medium to use would be sawdust. But I used this because I didn't have sawdust.

The final step will be to stake the individual shoots so they grow up nice and straight. Now to see if this works.