What's popping everyone? I hope the garden's popping. I know that mine I've harvested out a lot

I sort of had an early start to the season which means an early end to the season so I'm sort of doing a double summer thing going on and I've got

beans parsnips and turnips starting in my garden would love to know what's going on in

your garden and today we're going to talk about a tree that just so happened to be on my property when I moved in,

very thankful and very lucky that it was here.

And so that would be the humble and the forgotten loquot tree.

So these are tiny, tangy, relatively uncommon Asian fruits.

It is an extremely interesting one, and actually it's a relative of the rose. Now this is a

prolific fruiting plant you don't need to do a whole lot to care for it once it's

established and you can do so much with the fruit besides just

eat it. It sort of has this peach citrus mango taste to it and even a bit of a

honey note and depending on when you harvest it and it can be a little bit tangy

a little tart or if you let it get nice and juicy, it can be very, very sweet and delicious.

So let's talk about the Loquat tree.

First of all, it can top out at about 30 feet. However, most people keep it in that 10 to 15 foot

range. The one outside in my house is about 10 feet tall. You kind of treat it like a tree-like shrub.

You don't really let it get to its full form.

Now, there's a lot of different varieties.

There are at least 800 cultivars available of loquots, which is crazy.

And of course we could never cover those.

I'm just going to list off five popular ones that people like to grow,

at least in the United States.

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