I went outside to survey the back 40 and I think my food plants are happy with this cooler weather. It gives me pleasure to see the plants in the net room being safe from freaking squirrels. One of the tomato plants in there has blooms on it now. The Stevia plant now has tiny white flowers blooming. See what I mean - they like this cool weather so much they are blooming. The Sweet Potato leaves are still dark green and lush looking - no hint they are thinking of dying. Maybe I will have some large sweet potatoes one of these days. Don’t ask when I planted them because I don’t remember. I have to get a notebook to follow these plants.
The carrot tops are tall and swell and the turnip leaves are getting quite large, there are bunches of them. Can you believe I sprouted those seeds and now have actual food growing?
The Brussels Sprouts two plants are getting tall. The lettuce keeps growing.
ABOUT THE STRAWBERRY PLANTS: While looking through my garden folder looking for something else, I found the order for the strawberry plants. That company sent me a double order and I didn’t think I ordered that but guessed I must have since I got them. No, the order proves I ordered 24 and they sent me 48, that’s why I’ve got all those strawberry plants. They look fine.
The big squash has added about another two inches so it’s about 20 inches long now. There are still blooms on the plant but the top part of the plant is really yellow and the leaves around the top are mostly dead.
Oh, yes, the Walking Onions are just swell in their box.
I think deciding what seeds to get as I have done (still need a dwarf lemon tree and blackberry plants but I may get an Avocado “tree” instead of a lemon tree because I can’t find a lemon tree that will ship to Texas. It’s possible Lowes might have them for us in Texas later. The Avocado is a small tree like the Meyer Lemon.
Here I am in southeast Texas where I can grow fruit and I can’t find fruit to grow. That doesn’t compute.
Are you pollinating the flowers by hand?
Yes, I can believe that you sprouted seeds, and transplanted them. You are a determined person. Just wait till you can prepare some things to eat! You’ll feel even better.
I would think that somewhere in Texas you could get some fruit to grow. It kinda makes sense that they want to limit import for spread of diseases etc. but you should have something available in state I would think.
Okay, here’s the answer to your question regarding Meyer Lemon and info on other citrus. Looks like you’ll have to get it locally or from this Citrus Center.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/2008/jan08/TexasCitrus.html
If you can wait till spring(3mo) you can get fruit trees locally.