It has always been a great pleasure for Pete and I to go to u-pick strawberry places and such and pick a bunch and eat/can them. I don't know, they always taste better and I get a personal satisfaction out of it. So we were especially happy that our house already had an avocado and banana trees. We were a little sad that we bearly got three of the avocados from our tree as someone had came and picked them all right before we moved in. We have been really happy about the one banana tree that fruited and we have been inpatiencely watching it for weeks. Well for those of you that don't know banana trees grow to maturity, fruit and die. I thought these bananas were never going to change color and then the tree started dieing and falling over. So we cut the stalk off and hang them by the swing.
It took an other 3-4 days before the first banana turned yellow. And that was after I got too impatience and thought maybe they are plantians and tryed one (I will never try a nonriped banana again).
And may I just say fruit from your yard is even better then a u-pick. I want to make my garden even more now. I can't begin to say how wonderful it is to have a yard. Pete made a fire pit and Justin loves it when we make a fire and sit together and watch it (It doesn't hurt that the wheather has been perfect too). Our house has became a home and I was about to take pictures but I have stuff for my craft fair on all the counters so that will have to wait. I am thinking of doing Christmas decorations way early so maybe then.
