My Deck Top Garden

This is my deck top garden starting from one corner and panning around to the right. Its winter right now so a lot of the leaves have fallen off the trees.











My raised lettuce bed. I just pulled out a lot of them and planted new seeds.



What you see is spinach to the left and Chinese cabbage to the right. I just planted Bok Choi seeds to the far left and Romaine and Simpson lettuce in the space in the center.

5-in1 Asian Pear Tree

This is my Asian pear cocktail tree I got yesterday that consists of Hosui, 20th Century, Shinseiki, Chojuro & Bartlett (which is a European pear).

5-in-1 Cherry Tree

This is my cherry cocktail tree I got yesterday. It consists of Bing, Stella, Lapin, Royal Ann and Montmorency cherry.

5-in-1 Apple Tree

This is an apple cocktail tree I bought yesterday. It consists of Fuji, Anna, Dorsett Golden, Beverly Hills and Einshimer apple.







Here are the Cherry and Apple side by side with the Cherry on the left.

Early Fruit Tree Pictures March 2009

Here are some earlier pictures that I forgot I had that will show some of the trees during their earlier years. They were taken in March 2009.

In the blue tub to the far left is a Hybrid dwarf Avocado. Not sure of the exact variety. To the right of that is my Red Malaysian Guava. In the middle climbing the arbor is a grape of unknown variety. To the far right in the brown boxed pot is my 5-in-1 fruit cocktail tree consisting of Navel orange, Valencia orange, Minneola Tangelo, Bears Seedless Lime and Honey (W. Muricott) Mandarin. I have since grafted many other varieties onto it that I'll show in other posts when I get the chance.



Another shot. The avocado is on the left and the guava on the right.

Citrus Fruit Cocktail Tree

I have a 5-in-1 fruit cocktail tree consisting of Navel orange, Valencia orange, Minneola Tangelo, Bears Seedless Lime and Honey (W. Muricott) Mandarin. This picture was taken November of 2008.




I grafted many more varieties onto it. I'm surprised that the grafts are shooting off a lot of new growth now considering winter just started. Looking forward to the spring when it will fill out and I can graft more onto it.

Here is how it looks today. It looks pretty pitiful because most of the leaves have fallen off. You can see some of the Minneola Tangelos that are almost ripe. The smaller, greener fruit are the mandarins. You can't see them in this picture but there are about eight additional grafts bringing it to a total of 13 varieties. I think they are Eureka Lemon, Moro Blood Orange, Cara Cara Navel Orange, Variegated Calomondin, Rangpur Lime, Oro Blanco Grapefruit, Rio Red Grapefruit and Algerian Clementine. I'll try and post an individual picture of each graft sometime.



Another view.

Moro Blood Orange

I went to Home Depot today and saw that they had some citrus trees for half off. Its in the middle of December so I guess they weren't selling very many. I had no intention of buying one but I saw this Moro and it just looked too good to pass up for the price. It had nice branching and new growth. I couldn't resist.