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One of the things that is fabulous about Florida is all the citrus. I lived in Texas for a short while when my husband and I got together (his family moved there) and it was really odd to have to BUY citrus. I really took it for granted. I missed it again when I lived in TN. Now I love that I can wander out to the pasture and fight the cows to get to the Parson Brown oranges, haha!
There are a couple sourwood oranges here, a few parson browns and a few regular oranges and a big grapefruit tree out here along the fenceline on one side of the property. They are kinda buried in the brush and the cows try to eat every single one they can reach so we either pasture them elsewhere or try to beat them to the ones up high. Ever seen a cow stand on its hind legs to get to some moss or an orange? It's a really funny sight!
I planted a dwarf lime tree (it's tiny but is loaded with limes) and a regular old orange tree in the back yard when we moved back. What's interesting is that down the road-about a mile and a half away there is a HUGE citrus nursery going in-it's set back in an old cow pasture and it is going to be quite an operation. I figure if the shtf we won't have to worry about a vitamin c deficiency out here!
Along with the citrus we have a few fig trees growing and since they are so cheap out here I grabbed two more and planted those, along with 16 blueberry bushes that are acting fraudy as hell-I need to put some more pine mulch on them. I also planted a persimmon and a mulberry to replace the ancient ones that died in the past ten years. Now more waiting til I can eat persimmons and mulberries! Some of my earliest memories are of climbing the old mulberry tree, and eating handfuls of berries. It grew near an old well that pop had set up to irrigate the pasture for growing peas and corn. So he'd work on the pump and set irrigation pipe and I'd sit in the mulberry tree and eat bug ridden mulberries.
We also have a ton of wild blackberries all over the property-which are home to lovely coveys of quail and of course the obligatory rattler. Good times out here!
There are a couple sourwood oranges here, a few parson browns and a few regular oranges and a big grapefruit tree out here along the fenceline on one side of the property. They are kinda buried in the brush and the cows try to eat every single one they can reach so we either pasture them elsewhere or try to beat them to the ones up high. Ever seen a cow stand on its hind legs to get to some moss or an orange? It's a really funny sight!
I planted a dwarf lime tree (it's tiny but is loaded with limes) and a regular old orange tree in the back yard when we moved back. What's interesting is that down the road-about a mile and a half away there is a HUGE citrus nursery going in-it's set back in an old cow pasture and it is going to be quite an operation. I figure if the shtf we won't have to worry about a vitamin c deficiency out here!
Along with the citrus we have a few fig trees growing and since they are so cheap out here I grabbed two more and planted those, along with 16 blueberry bushes that are acting fraudy as hell-I need to put some more pine mulch on them. I also planted a persimmon and a mulberry to replace the ancient ones that died in the past ten years. Now more waiting til I can eat persimmons and mulberries! Some of my earliest memories are of climbing the old mulberry tree, and eating handfuls of berries. It grew near an old well that pop had set up to irrigate the pasture for growing peas and corn. So he'd work on the pump and set irrigation pipe and I'd sit in the mulberry tree and eat bug ridden mulberries.
We also have a ton of wild blackberries all over the property-which are home to lovely coveys of quail and of course the obligatory rattler. Good times out here!
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