Total yield:
Blueberries: 24 berries
Finger Limes: 1 almost-ripe lime
Yep. That's it.
Grand savings: The cost of 1 punnet blueberries = $3.99
There could have been more, perhaps, if I had watered the garden every day. Here's evidence of the harvest that almost was:
The Small One polished these off as they arrived. It was all I could do to stop her from eating the green ones.
Watching the finger limes grow was exciting! Four of them made it to this size.
Plus there were half a dozen budding Tahitian limes...
...and the same number of little mandarins.
But a hot, dry wind thrashed the trees for three days in a row (yes, we are safe from flood here on the Heights, but it does get windy), and I found all the mandarins, all the Tahitian limes, and all but one of my finger limes knocked prematurely off their stems. Here's what it looked like inside.
A month later, a similar wind knocked the last finger lime down. At least this one was edible. Yum!
So the lesson was perhaps to water every day (like I set out to do in the first place, but life interferes) and/or be patient enough for the baby trees to get some size on them before I start wanting to eat the fruit.
The War on Lawn continues...
