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A few weeks ago, when Ray Sher from The Urban Harvest and Heidi Sheesley from Treesearch Farms were on the program talking about all the upcoming Fruit Tree Sale Season, the question came up "Can you grow enough fruit or enough different kinds of fruit in Houston year-round to be harvesting fruit every month of the year? The answer was an overwhelming YES! So, I asked Ray Sher to produce a schedule that you can easily follow to have that year-round fruit in your own backyard. If you are interested in listening to all the questions Ray and Heidi fielded that day, please CLICK HERE to log on to our web site and listen to the Podcasts from the weekend of January 13-14. P.S. You can CLICK HERE to get info on the remaining two Fruit Tree Sales on the schedule! Although Houston is not the tropics where you can see fruit hanging from trees everywhere you look, we are able to harvest fruit in every month of the year. All you need to do is carefully select the types and varieties of trees that can give you fruit every month of the year. Variety selection is important for taste, hardiness and ripening time. For instance, different varieties of satsumas are ripe from September through December, and different varieties of oranges are ripe from early December through February, and different varieties of figs from June through August. We can give you a little help variety selection. January - Republic of Texas orange, almost all grapefruit, lemons, limequats, Calamondin, kumquats, limes February - Kumquats, limequats, Valencia, Sanguinelli blood and other late ripening oranges, loquats, Calamondin, lemons March - Strawberries, loquats, kumquats, limequats, lemonquat, Calamondin April - Strawberries, blueberries, mayhaws May - Strawberries, peaches, blueberries, nectarines, plums, apricots June -Peaches, nectarines, Celeste Fig, Anna and Dorsett Golden apples, cantaloupe July - LSU Purple fig and Banana Fig, cantaloupe, Mortensen bunch grapes, pears, jujubes August - Mysteak fig, Mortensen bunch grapes, pears, hybrid muscadine grapes, pomegranates September - Dobashi-beni, Okitsu and BC2 satsumas, bananas, avocado, papaya, guava October - persimmons, pineapple guava (feijoa), pecans, bananas, avocados, papaya, guava, satsumas, limes November - Calamondin, persimmons, Changsha tangerine, Fairchild and Page tangelos, mid season satsumas, limes December - Calamondin, persimmons, Bloomsweet, Golden and most of the red varieties of grapefruit, Pong Koa mandarin, Moro blood orange, Marrs orange, Cara Cara orange, lemons, Owari and Vermilion satsumas, limes As mentioned earlier, it is important to do a little investigation to determine the varieties of fruit that work well in the climate in which you live. There are many good sources of information including the Urban Harvest web site www.urbanharvest.org and the fruit study group that meets at the Harris County Agricultural Extension Service in Bear Creek Park. You can also drop by the Bayou City Farmers' Market located at 3000 Richmond (in the parking lot behind the building at Eastside) on Sat. from 8 a.m.-noon, and Wed. from 4-7 p.m. to taste some of these freshly picked fruits being sold by local growers during their harvest seasons. Until then, here's to great gardening from the GardenLine, heard exclusively weekend mornings 6 to 10 on Saturdays and 7 to 10 a.m. Sundays on NewsRadio 740 KTRH. With GardenLine's switch from TALKRADIO 950 to NewsRadio 740, we want to make sure no subscriber gets lost in the move. To make certain you're included in our database, please take a few minutes to update your information at ktrh.com. If you are already a registered ktrh.com user, please CLICK HERE, sign in, and make sure "Yes" is selected for the question "Would you like to receive the GardenLine Newsletter?" If you have never registered as a ktrh.com user, please CLICK HERE and sign up. You may receive a duplicate newsletter for a few weeks, but the extra copies will stop once we switch completely to the new database. Thanks for understanding!
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