Update of my Orchard...vid:)

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Hi Fellow members ,

Here's a slide show with recent and some old pics from the orchard

Update of my orchard!

The music is from a Cape Verdean singer with a magnificent voice and one of my top favorite singer of all times , Cesaria Evora, who sadly passed away last year Let her soul rest in peace and she will never be forgotten...her music is immortal and will be loved by everyone, in the generations to come! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesaria_Evora

I hope everyone likes the vid and the music

Take care,
Steven

[Elmango]

A very diverse collection of fruit trees. Your farm is awesome and beautiful music.

Thanks for the presentation.

[GwenninPR]

Wow!  Great presentation and nice looking trees.  Thanks for posting it.

[jez251]

Great-looking orchard, Steven.

really enjoyed seeing a lot of those fruits, especially the semi-temperate ones like persimmons and grapes. Also, I finally have an image to what the lucuma and tamarillos will look like when mine start to fruit.

Thanks again,
Jaime

[Patrick]

Nice show! Great music too.. Your soil looks nice and rich!

[Tropicalgrower89]

Nice orchard!     I enjoyed the video. 

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

A very diverse collection of fruit trees. Your farm is awesome and beautiful music.
Thanks for the presentation.

Hi Elmango,
  Welcome to the forum, fellow member

Thanks ...Happy that you enjoyed the music and the slide show I am trying my best to plant different species, so that in the near future, i will have fruit's year round...that's my long term goal

Wow!  Great presentation and nice looking trees.  Thanks for posting it.

Hi Gwenn,
Thanks  Glad you enjoyed the presentation...my pleasure

Great-looking orchard, Steven.

really enjoyed seeing a lot of those fruits, especially the semi-temperate ones like persimmons and grapes. Also, I finally have an image to what the lucuma and tamarillos will look like when mine start to fruit.

Thanks again,
Jaime

Hi Jaime,
Thanks I like to plant fruit trees from temperate to tropical in the orchard ...Those grapes in the vid are table grapes, most of the property is planted with wine grapes(very old vines)...armon, jaqué and americana. The armon and jaqué producing a very dark, super sweet juice, that i need to dilute with a bit of water to make the juice drinkable(i can't handle it's sweetness ) I also have loquat's,cherries and some stone fruits in the orchard.

Happy to show you Lucuma and Tamarillo I really hope my lucuma produces this year

Nice show! Great music too.. Your soil looks nice and rich!

Hi Patrick,
Thanks I have a few projects, that i will share in the near future Yes, the soil is nice and rich

Nice orchard!     I enjoyed the video. 

Hi Alexi,
Thanks Happy you enjoyed the vid

[ReneeFLL]

Really nice trees in your orchard.

[nullzero]

Will check out the video when I get home. Looks like its going to be good!

[murahilin]

Great video Steven.

Patrick and I are thinking about running a contest next month for the best yard tour (pictures or video) in which members vote for their favorite and winner gets a prize. Your video would be a good first entry. I'll try to make the contest post later today.

[Adacaosky]

Hi Steven,
Thanks for sharing that slideshow of your orchard. I enjoyed looking at the various trees/vines you have growing. It gives me an idea of what to expect with some of the young grapes and figs I have. You have a pretty broad range of things you grow.    I can't imagine the amount of cherimoya that massive tree gives out during peak season! You have no shortage of figs either! You could feed the neighborhood with that harvest. lol  Please let us know if your dry and sunny conditions make for a better tasting TA mango. 

Chris

[FloridaGreenMan]

Steven
Great photos and video. Beautiful orchard that you have... Yes it was sad to hear of Cesaria's passing. She was a great singer!
FGM

[JF]

precioso Steven!!

[Ethan]

Wow Steven, it looks lovely there, congrats on all your hard work starting to pay off.

-Ethan

[Hollywood]

Does anyone have a music composition background? I studied opera performance and if anyone will write fruit libretto, I'll sing it to one of the videos.

[fruitlovers]

Hi Steven, very very nice! Looks like you've been perfecting not only your gardening skills but also your video making skills! Hat's off to you! Keep up the good work.
PS i also enjoyed the music. I'd never heard of that singer before.

[Saltcayman]

Thanks Steven. Loved the video and your orchard!  Most impressive and beautiful music.  Dave

[nullzero]

Great video steven, loved everything. The persimmons looked tasty, is the persimmon a non astringent variety?

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Really nice trees in your orchard.

Hi Renee,
Thanks 

Great video Steven.
Patrick and I are thinking about running a contest next month for the best yard tour (pictures or video) in which members vote for their favorite and winner gets a prize. Your video would be a good first entry. I'll try to make the contest post later today.

Hi Mura,
Thanks
Yard tour contest ...Excellent idea indeed It's going to be epic!!! Can't wait to see them pics and videos from fellow members

Hi Steven,
Thanks for sharing that slideshow of your orchard. I enjoyed looking at the various trees/vines you have growing. It gives me an idea of what to expect with some of the young grapes and figs I have. You have a pretty broad range of things you grow.    I can't imagine the amount of cherimoya that massive tree gives out during peak season! You have no shortage of figs either! You could feed the neighborhood with that harvest. lol  Please let us know if your dry and sunny conditions make for a better tasting TA mango. 
Chris

Hi Chris,
Glad you enjoyed the slideshow...my pleasure Diversification is the way to go! I highly encourage fellow members to diversify and get a year round fruits for family and friends to enjoy My figs are very productive...but, when the cherimoya season kicks in...oh boy, it's bags and bags of fruits I don't like wasting any produce...i share with family, friends and neighbours! There is enough for everyone
You got it, Chris I will definitely post an update on Tommy Atkins It's going to be the first time, I eat a tree ripened mango...it's going to be epic

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Steven
Great photos and video. Beautiful orchard that you have... Yes it was sad to hear of Cesaria's passing. She was a great singer!
FGM

Hi FloridaGreenMan,
Thanks   I totally agree with you...Great singer indeed

precioso Steven!!

Hi Joe,
Muchas gracias

Wow Steven, it looks lovely there, congrats on all your hard work starting to pay off.

-Ethan

Hi Ethan,
Thanks
I really enjoy the hard work and do my best to keep them happy

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Hi Steven, very very nice! Looks like you've been perfecting not only your gardening skills but also your video making skills! Hat's off to you! Keep up the good work.
PS i also enjoyed the music. I'd never heard of that singer before.

Hi Oscar,
Thanks All this these kind words makes me blush Practise makes perfect Thanks for the encouragement...will keep the good work

Glad you enjoyed the music...I have almost all her albums She also sings a bit of French and Spanish like Petit pays, Je t'aime beaucoup and Besame mucho
Here's a playlist for you
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=AL94UKMTqg-9AhWo7FMh9K75qRFTgVT7Rz

Thanks Steven. Loved the video and your orchard!  Most impressive and beautiful music.  Dave

Hi Dave,
Thanks Happy you enjoyed the slideshow and the music

Great video steven, loved everything. The persimmons looked tasty, is the persimmon a non astringent variety?

Hi Stephen,
Thanks Glad you loved everything My uncle planted this tree, around 4 years ago...I don't know what variety it is It's an astringent variety. The tree always aborted the fruits in the first two years. last year only one fruit ripen...this year there is 8+ fruits...YIPPEE I also have a jiro tree here and them fruits are super sweet

[samuel]

Hi Steven,

thanks for sharing, nice orchard, great  work!

I love the music as well, i know Cesaria Evora's music for a while. She came here last year to perform  during the biggest music festival, unfortunately i was not able to go there... very nice version of this song i have listen to many many times 

by the way i also like portuguese language very much, it a singing language and the sonorities are incredible.

[siafu]

 Hi,

 Nice plants Steven, and great choice of music.

 Samuel,

 I also love Cesária Évora but she sings mostly in Portuguese creole,
 which is usually spoken so fast that a regular Portuguese speaker will understand little to nothing.

 In the latter half of the song a differente singer joins Cesária and I can't quite tell which language
 is being used. Steve, anyone, do you know that other language/singer? It reminds me of greek but
 not quite.

[zands]

You have lots going on. Lots of figs. Bananas providing shade. What is the large green fruit in your hand? Avocado I suppose. I see lots of garden vegetables. Guava. Pineapple. Very large selection!

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Hi Steven,
thanks for sharing, nice orchard, great  work!
I love the music as well, i know Cesaria Evora's music for a while. She came here last year to perform  during the biggest music festival, unfortunately i was not able to go there... very nice version of this song i have listen to many many times 
by the way i also like portuguese language very much, it a singing language and the sonorities are incredible.

Hi Samuel,
Merci beaucoup Happy that you are also a fan of Cesaria WOW what a bummer...most unfortunate indeed

Sodade by Cesaria is my favorite. Luiza, Tudo tem se limite, Sabina largam, Cinturão tem mele...and a trillion others  too

That's cool that you very much enjoy the Portuguese language and music When i was younger, i didn't like Fado...now, i very much enjoyed it With the flow of time...taste buds do charge

 Hi,
Nice plants Steven, and great choice of music.
Samuel,
I also love Cesária Évora but she sings mostly in Portuguese creole,
 which is usually spoken so fast that a regular Portuguese speaker will understand little to nothing.
In the latter half of the song a differente singer joins Cesária and I can't quite tell which language
 is being used. Steve, anyone, do you know that other language/singer? It reminds me of greek but
 not quite.

Olá Sérgio,
Obrigado/Thanks

There's a bunch of Portuguese creolo languges and some you can't even understand...This creole language from São Vicente, you can undestand a few words, but the rest

I have no clue what languege the other singer is singing My dad did once say...i sounded like Greek.

You have lots going on. Lots of figs. Bananas providing shade. What is the large green fruit in your hand? Avocado I suppose. I see lots of garden vegetables. Guava. Pineapple. Very large selection!

Howdy Zands,
 Thanks I reckon it's the green passion fruit i had in my hands?

I have a few veggies and herbs planted. Sweet potato is running wild as a ground cover to surpress the weeds and to keep the soil moist. Lemon grass, rosemarry, rue, parsley, chillies and cabbage. I will plant a bunch of bananas to provide shade to moisten the air, creating a more humid ambient     Diversification is key, Zands   

[nullzero]

Steven,

Have any the following growing?

Olives, Apples, Peaches, Pineapple Guava, Potatoes, Taro, Horseradish... Can't wait to see future monkey orange plants , and the Opuntia patch hehe.

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Steven,

Have any the following growing?

Olives, Apples, Peaches, Pineapple Guava, Potatoes, Taro, Horseradish... Can't wait to see future monkey orange plants , and the Opuntia patch hehe.

Hi again,
From your list...I have an apple , peaches  and I also grow potatoes. A neighbour has a taro patch (best I have tasted)

Yup Can't wait to post pics of these two, in the most near future

[zands]

Howdy Zands,
 Thanks I reckon it's the green passion fruit i had in my hands?

I have a few veggies and herbs planted. Sweet potato is running wild as a ground cover to surpress the weeds and to keep the soil moist. Lemon grass, rosemarry, rue, parsley, chillies and cabbage. I will plant a bunch of bananas to provide shade to moisten the air, creating a more humid ambient     Diversification is key, Zands 

Hi
A friend of mine has boniato running as a ground cover. Is yours boniato or a different one? All are tubers I guess.
So green passion fruit? Nice. Never had one. I just mulched a mango tree with a banana I had to cut down because it was shading another mango tree. Like I said.... I see bananas as very fast growing helper plants. They produce shade, air moisture, fruit and mulch. For your prize bananas I guess cow manure. But bananas do well with cheap fertilizer the kind with no minors and with quick release nitrogen. They can do OK with nothing too!



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[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

Howdy Zands,
 Thanks I reckon it's the green passion fruit i had in my hands?

I have a few veggies and herbs planted. Sweet potato is running wild as a ground cover to surpress the weeds and to keep the soil moist. Lemon grass, rosemarry, rue, parsley, chillies and cabbage. I will plant a bunch of bananas to provide shade to moisten the air, creating a more humid ambient     Diversification is key, Zands 

Hi
A friend of mine has boniato running as a ground cover. Is yours boniato or a different one? All are tubers I guess.
So green passion fruit? Nice. Never had one. I just mulched a mango tree with a banana I had to cut down because it was shading another mango tree. Like I said.... I see bananas as very fast growing helper plants. They produce shade, air moisture, fruit and mulch. For your prize bananas I guess cow manure. But bananas do well with cheap fertilizer the kind with no minors and with quick release nitrogen. They can do OK with nothing too!
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Hi Zands,
That's cool...I don't grow them. That variety is poplular in the Caribbean. My is a large and sweet tuber that takes 8 months to mature, I will harvest them around September.
After harvest, I work the soil and fertilize the soil with manure for planting on the same day...it's rainy season by then, so i must take advantage of that

Nope, I meant immature green fruits After harvesting the banana...I took the mother plant and chopped it into pieces with a machete...to recycle back the nutrients into the soil again...banana is definitely a good source for mulch and your mango tree is going to love it I basically use well decomposed cow manure, when planting a banana plant...to enrich the soil, then a few weeks later, i give the plant a nice dose of NPK. Some times we will find a complete NPK for only bananas, that is used commercially from the cooperative. They do ok with nothing...takes longer to get them to produce.