Permaculture Update...

A number of projects/plantings have been going for a number of yrs and it's time I looked at how successful or not they were:
Starches
The potential for Perennial Sweet Potatoes won't so for a few more yrs. WInterkill means the crops in situ don't produce as well as those saved as slips...as long as the Possums don't get at them;>!
The Filippino Dryland Taro is a great success. The small tuber type generally in supermarkets, it does very well here. The Korean and Japanese Dryland cultivars are OK, but not big producers.
The Malangas are pretty much a failure. They survive but not reproduce so there's nothing to harvest.
Fruit:
Bananas
Only 'Dwarf Namwa' produces consistantly here. If I had the room I'd try 'Rajah Puri', but since I don't...
Quince-Dying of Fireblight. Nuff Said
Apples-Chill hrs now too short for the cultivars I planted a decade ago. most dead, the one not hasn't bloomed in yrs. Since it's a graft of a Mt Vernon cultivar it's hard to think of removing it.
Citrus
Kumquats and their intergenerics are the best producers, followed by the Satsumas. The Pink Navel Orange grows slowly but hasn't bloomed. I'm not counting the Blood Orange that I drag into the greenhouse every Winter. It's a great producer but not hardy here (yet).
Berries
We lost one of the two Blueberries this WInter. The 'Apache' Blackberry is doing well and is a good producer. The 'Kiowa' produces a little but not as well.
Vines
The Muscadine is new and so I didn't expect anything this yr. The self-fertile Kiwi died and none of the Akebia produced fruits this yr.
Cheers,
Pat