After finding a great deal on tropical fruit trees (.50 cents each!) outside David, Panama and gorging on 18 new tropical fruit varieties totalling 66 trees, I now find myself nearly running out of space in which to plant them all on our Bocas del Toro farm. The meadow is big, but part of it is for the horses and part is designated as lots for sale, so the area for tropical fruit trees and other garden activities is getting smaller and smaller. I may have to expand the maintained areas a little.
For those folks keeping track, above the 18 tropical fruit trees we have planted over the last few years, we now have 2 more avocado trees, 4 more guanabana fruit trees, 1 more mango, 4 new lychee trees, 4 new star fruit, 4 tamarindo and borojo, 3 mangosteen, 4 grapefruit trees, 4 sweet mandarin orange trees, 6 papaya, 6 poma rosa, 2 of a delicious vine fruit called granadilla, as well as a fruit giving version of the hardwood nispero.
In five years we will be swimming in fresh fruit!!! The longest to throw fruit will be mangosteen at about 10 years (apparently the fruit is worth the wait) the shortest should be papaya at under one year. most other tropical fruit varieties will be throwing within about two to five years though.
Cheers to the three workers who, over three days, have dug 40 3×3 holes and collected enough horse poop, black dirt and compost to refill those holes with years of food for our young fruit tree arrivals.
Let the growing begin!!
Posted on Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 9:54 am
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December 14th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Swanny,
This is fantastic! The smell of orange blossoms will be wonderful too. Mangosteen is a hot commodity in the states in the health food stores - sold as juice. Pricy.
December 18th, 2006 at 7:49 am
Dear Swanny…..after reading your news about the fruit trees John and I got talking about our lot…and the fact that it is sitting there unused at the moment. We don’t expect that we are going to be there for a few months anyway so if you wish to plant some seasonal crops on it please feel free to do so. Even if we got there soon….it will most likely be a couple of months or so before we can go ahead and build and of course we would wait for any crop you have planted to be harvested before we started. With regards to the fruit trees…we were thinking of putting some on the edges of the land anyway so again feel free. We are so pleased to see that everything is coming together as you had planned…and the blogs are great…it is so nice to be intouch with people who are heading out there too. Cheers, Susan and John