State of the espalier, finger lime

As you can see from the weeds, there has been zero maintenance. Not even weeding.

Luckily for me, neither of the espalier limes have died. Indeed, they are actually flowering and little limes are appearing. None of the fruit has ever ripened, but then, none of the trees have ever been watered and they are on a slope of pretty much pure clay.

Finger lime gets ever larger and happier.

Baggies on the apples

Green Harvest has, not very helpfully, stopped stocking the mesh that I used last year to protect my apples from fruit fly.

I put them in tomato fruit fly bags. I'll let you know how that goes.

Updated Interface? I don't like.

My mandarin post won't publish.

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Yummy Seedy Mandarins

So, how can mandarins be yummy and seedy at the same time?

Easy. I don't water them. So they are small. And full of seeds. But very sweet. I can see why they are called honey murcott. YUM.

A week after picking them all (total harvest: about 2kg), the tree was already flowering and pollinated and rearing to go again.

Onya, little neglected mandarin tree!