Sunday, April 14, 2019

RED CHERRY GUAVA

We have been very pleased with our fruit crops this year, in fact we have been very pleased with all our crops.

We have a large quantity of stewed peaches and raw tomatoes in the freezer.  The blackberry and raspberry plants (one of each) that we bought last year gave us far more fruit than we ever imagined.  Now we are just starting to pick our Cherry Guava (also known as the Strawberry Guava among other names).


This photo was taken about a week ago and we have been picking a few every day.  Just enough to keep us going.  The lemons and mandarins are not ripe yet. 

The winter vegie plants are coming along nicely and the blueberry bush that was in a sorry state when we were given it is looking good.



The nights are getting colder and days are about 20 degrees C.

15 comments:

  1. I wish our climate was better for fruit, you can never tell if a frost is going to ruin it. Never heard of Cherry Guava but they look nice.
    Briony
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    1. The guava make a nice jelly (as in jam) but we prefer to eat them raw.

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  2. I eat almost daily a bowl of slightly cooked fruit (including kiwi and guyava),after keeping it in the fridge for 15-30 minutes or more. It's a sheer delight!

    The thing is the kiwi and guyava are expensive in our place, so I use half fruit each time. Sabra fruit (prickle pear) is equally expensive, but I eat it in raw form. Kiwi and grapefruit are best eaten cooked as they're not too friendly to stomach.

    Fruit is the best, most delicious food on earth!

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    1. On our previous property we had a prickly pear but I never tried the fruit.

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    2. I had not heard of eating kiwifruit cooked.

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  4. We've got lemons and mandarins too, like yours not quite ripe but won't be far off I think.

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  5. How wonderful that your garden was so fruitful. My seedlings have grown fast and it is almost time to plant. I do look forward to my gardens and all the activity that they bring.

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  6. I've never tasted a Guava, they look quite small. I suppose I'll have to think about sowing and planting quite soon. I'm leaving it a bit later this year.

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    1. These guava are quite small but are delicious eaten raw. You can also grow the tropical guava here and we had some when we lived further north. We buy them tinned.

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  7. What a wonderful lot of fruit you grow in your climate. I've never heard of these guava either.

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    1. The guava are grown a lot here and are often left to drop which is a shame as they are delicious.

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