Comments on: Column: Walnuts – The King Of Nuts https://bernews.com/2020/09/column-walnuts-king-nuts/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: sage https://bernews.com/2020/09/column-walnuts-king-nuts/#comment-5374910 Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:26:25 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1004750#comment-5374910 So true, and a good few people do plant and sell fruit trees, I have bought sour sop, blackberry, rose apple, cherimoya, lychee, acerola cherry, miracle fruit, moringa, breadfruit (mafala variety), guava, Carter naval orange, and coffee mostly off emoo. I started coconut, ackee, sugar apples and more rose apples, snake fruit palm,and lychee from seed sourced here locally, the first four from trees growing here and the last two from store bought fruit. My son successfully air layered the acerola cherry and has made a good amount of grafted citrus like naval oranges, red grapefruit, finger limes, mandarins, lemon and lime. He also planted avocados, loquats, peach, and almond(Caribbean) and more sugar apples coconuts, sugar cane, dragon fruit and rose apples.

One major problem is some fruits don’t do so well in our climate and the harsh winds can set them back years. No reason not to plant them though, seeking more protected spots for trees which can’t take too much wind will help. Some seedlings we plant we may never see bear fruit but think of how much fruit we enjoyed which we didn’t plant and it makes sense to do something for future generations. Some of us go throughout life never producing any food or fruits yet want to eat three square meals a day. There are large tamarind, avocado, loquat, mango and I heard about a guinep tree planted long ago and others I don’t know about. Yesterday I got a bag of small figs and a massive 26 finger hand of bananas from a friend.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago but if you haven’t then today is.

]]> By: Loquat tree https://bernews.com/2020/09/column-walnuts-king-nuts/#comment-5374821 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 23:04:56 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1004750#comment-5374821 What would be good is if we planted ‘food forests’ or food trees in place of solely ornamentals. Imagine if there was a walnut, almond or pecan tree in every neighborhood and every park? Imagine if we could plant fruit, avocado and breadfruit trees apart from the existing loquats, all along the railway trails. Instead of weeds or flowers we could grow kale, runner beans and carrots with maybe a few flowers as well.
Many countries are doing this to improve their local food availability aka food security and improve access to healthy local food for all.
The community gardens, most sponsored by the health dept. are a start. (There’s some of your ‘sugar tax dollars’ put to good use!). Maybe company’s could join in and sponsor a garden for their staff or the general public?

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