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| An orange from our tree, July 2010. |
Do recognize this orange? If so, you can help me resolve a family dispute. My husband says the orange tree in our backyard is a Valencia, but I'm not so sure. The Valencia oranges I get at the farmer's market are deliciously sweet, which is something I can't say about our oranges. Of course, I know very little about oranges and my husband grew up in California, so he should know more about oranges than I do.
Our backyard neighbor Mary Rose says she remembers that the oranges from our tree were very sweet and that they're just out of season now. I'm sure that's true, but I didn't have a sweet one all winter. Even when the farmer's market was overflowing with Valencia's, our oranges were tart. We now have small green oranges growing alongside the older orange ones, so I know the "ripe" oranges on the tree are from last season. But I still wonder... can an orange tree go bad?
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| Old and new oranges on our tree, Summer 2010. |
