And here I was, thinking that the fruit production on my little bit of paradise was over until the Mandarines coloured up in a month or two, and that it was probably time to take the pruning saw to the base of the cherry guava. I planted it in my blueberry cage a couple of years ago, and although it sprouted branches in all directions, and the occasional green bulbous-looking fruit, it seemed to do nothing but get in the way of my blueberry and cranberry picking in a most unproductive manner. This was its final year - in Biblical fashion* I had given it one more year to produce fruit, when a wander in that direction today surprised me with red fruit on this strange plant! Reaching nearer the bush and bumping the wire, I was even more surprised that the nearest red bulb dropped off!
Ripe fruit!
And I'm missing it!
In no time at all, I had a bowl, and was inside the cage, and I look to have a huge crop!
I had seriously given up on this bush, but it was waiting its time.
And it's yummy! Wahoo! Fresh fruit for breakfast straight off the back lawn again!
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Reading up on it, I find that I wasn't misguided in planting it in the blueberry cage, as apparently birds love the fruit, so it has gained an indefinite stay of execution!)
*Luke 13:6-9
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
6 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
