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I’ve been home and quarantined since last Wednesday and losing my mind since about Monday.

So I’ve been bored. Anyway we have a palm tree in our front yard that we’ve had at least 15 years, probably closer to 20 because we had it for a couple of years before we built our house in 2007 and then moved it here. Had no idea what type of palm it is, and we certainly had no idea it could or would bear fruit.

About a month ago it grew this huge bunch of what looked like grapes. They grew into these really pretty bright yellow fruits. So I started researching and it turns out to be called Pindo Palm or “Jelly Palm”. The fruits apparently are loaded with natural pectin and are ideal for making jelly. I got brave enough to taste one and it was like a mixture of plum, citrus, and wild cherry.

So I’m going to try making jelly this weekend.

Anyone else try something new lately?

Wow! How fun! Let us know how it turns out!

Can't wait to hear how it turns out.
I love being able to make things from our own yards. I usually plant a few pepper and tomato plants.
a few years ago a vine popped up in my flower bed, and I thought it was a flowering vine, and left it, as I had planted them in that spot previously.

It was awesome we had fresh string beans all fall. It grew into a monster, and I could pick them every few days. Not sure how or why green beans grew there, but I also have had moon flowers show up and take over that same bed as the neighbor down the road had a bunch of them.

Tushnurse, odds are good that your green bean got there due to some critter stealing it the previous year...and I'd bet it was a bird! Especially if the bed was near a fence!

3 years ago, I "babysat" a friend's summer garden for a week while he was traveling. I watered his spaghetti squash, watermelon and tomato plants. Later that summer, he "paid" us by letting us take a number of his mature spaghetti squash. They kept really well over the fall/winter. Living out in the country, I'd just slice them in half to prepare them, scooping out the pulp and seeds and throwing them over the barb wire fence by the neighboring corn field.

Next spring, after he'd sold his place and moved, what should come up on the far side of that same fence but a big ol' squash vine...and in the summer, we counted several big yellow squash on it. It was a surprise, as I've never had any luck growing them in any garden; they'd always get attacked by bugs and then the virus. We picked 3 or 4 off one or 2 plants and ate them. This year, we have another fence volunteer but it is struggling among the weeds and the squash isn't as big. But what a legacy.

Well I ended up with 8 pints of jelly. 12 half pints and 2 pint jars.

It looks like apple jelly, maybe a little more orange in color. Tastes delicious. Sweet and a little citrusy. I was worried that it looked runny still in the jars but it’s perfect.

I’m so happy.

Wow! That made a lot of jelly...enough for you and maybe some holiday gifting, too? I love citrus jellies, marmalades and etc.

Making homemade food of any kind is very therapeutic.

Wow HF!! Sorry you had to quarantine but you made lemonade out of lemons (so to speak)