Nice. I still have strawberries in my garden. Not producing much.

The Quinalts will be making my first-ever strawberry shortcake from my own berries.

SoCalGardenNut said:Just ordered 3 fruit trees, two figs and one pixie cherry plum. This is it for my ordering this year.

Got an email that they are shipping my fruit trees. Yeah.

christmas present for SoCal!

I can't decide if I want to be SoCal's neighbor for fruit and lemon bars or Rita's for tomatoes and peppers!

Haha, I also have 3 strawberries right now.

@Deeby Perhaps you could be a seasonal snow bird. A vegie/fruit bird.

Kristi, LOL!

3 fruit trees arrived. We planted pixie cherry plum hybrid, it's actually a plum but tastes very sweet like cherry. I bought some from the farmers market and want to grow them in my yard. I also planted Peter's Honey Fig. This fig should be delicious.

SoCalGardenNut said:3 fruit trees arrived. We planted pixie cherry plum hybrid, it's actually a plum but tastes very sweet like cherry. I bought some from the farmers market and want to grow them in my yard. I also planted Peter's Honey Fig. This fig should be delicious.

Wow, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a cherry plum hybrid. It sounds delicious.

Newyorkrita said:

Wow, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a cherry plum hybrid. It sounds delicious.

It's very good, if it grows here, about 500-800 chill hours. I'm taking a risk here.

It sounds like something I'd like because I have never in all of my life tasted a plum that was actually sweet. That's why I don't like them, because they're always sour.

Deeby, you must not have tasted green gage plums, they are very sweet and crunchy. I had a Santa Rosa plum in my garden once, they are sweet but soft. I have it in my yard now. It's 4x1. But the Italian plum is already dead.

A crunchy plum?

Crunchy and sweet, unlike Santa Rosa plum, very soft.

Not sure I would like a crunchy plum.

Different strokes, but plums, peaches, and pears are not supposed to be crunchy, IMHO. When they are, it's usually something that has been bred for shipping, rather than taste. I suppose that's because I remember eating them while sitting in the tree. It's sad that many of the younger folks don't have a clue why they should eat this stuff, because they have never tasted it in it's original form. Showing my age here!

Crunchy Asian pears are strange to me, so are yellow tomatoes

Sally, I'd like to find a tangy, "old tomato taste" yellow tomato. True yellow not gold. Yellow Pear was gross!

sallyg said:Crunchy Asian pears are strange to me, so are yellow tomatoes

Asian pears have to be crunchy, it's weird otherwise.