Picking Tropical Fruit for Dinner: ice cream banana, carambola, mulberry, sapodilla and avocado

[@melchurmoreau5677]

Hey my boy what you holding in your hand ,back home we call it caramboula, I just love this guy right there!

[@SleepyLizard]

yep, Carambola or star fruit

[@nenaelliott8058]

The fruit all looks so yummy. It made my mouth water. LOL. Wishing you both a happy holiday season♥️

[@SleepyLizard]

Thank you Nena!

[@loho1125]

Ooohh a new video, day is saved. Ok it didn't really need to be saved in the first place but it still makes me very happy to see your beautiful grove and garden😁😁

[@SleepyLizard]

Thanks Lo, I'm glad you're having a great day

[@Kethra430]

I Love fruit! Definitely jelly of the ripe Orange starfruit yum!

[@SleepyLizard]

so delicious isn't it?

[@TimeToBeKind]

Well, I haven’t ordered anything from you in 2 weeks. Time to check what’s available. Thank you for sharing.

[@SleepyLizard]

Hi Tony, I saw your order come through. Thank you, I appreciate it.

[@SleepyLizard]

your avocados are on the way!

[@nancytharp8213]

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

[@SleepyLizard]

Thank you Nancy, we had a great time making it. It's finally cooling down to where we can enjoy ourselves out in the grove...still hot though. 🥵

[@giedriuska7418]

Oh, beauties, such a mouth-watering exposé for fruit lovers... You lovebirds living a dream 💕😉!!!

[@SleepyLizard]

we try to have something ripening all year long so we can do these walks every day

[@andrewpinto1778]

Both of you make a beautiful couple, enjoyed the video, all that delicious fruit. Thanks for sharing..

[@SleepyLizard]

Thanks Andrew. Usually when we get that many ripe bananas we can't eat them all so we make banana bread but these were so good we been eating bananas all week.

[@andrewpinto1778]

Everyone should start turning back to nature - caring and growing their own food, catching storing using their own water. Love your positive lifestyle. Keep up the great work and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

[@pierrehartley9231]

You need to have your wife in more of your videos, very nice as usual

[@michelle2314]

Agreed!

[@SleepyLizard]

Thank you Pierre, I'll include her more in upcoming videos.

[@SleepyLizard]

thank you Michelle

[@miguelschoedel7691]

Another great video. Your fruit looks amazing!

[@SleepyLizard]

thanks Miguel, we ate good that day

[@Darkshizumaru]

I just love you guys! I caught that the riper and more orange starfruit went to the wife ^_^ Good husband. I always wanted to know what the ice cream Blue Banana tasted like so this helped me decide that I really do want to start growing them.

[@SleepyLizard]

yeah I'm like an Italian grandma, I prefer seeing other people enjoy my fruit than eating it myself. and Yes them bananas are excellent.

[@devbachu7072]

Glad for you all

[@heerasingh7844]

Great job bro 👍👌 let me tell you something man I love to watch your videos wonderful wonderful keep up the good job 👍

[@SleepyLizard]

thank you Heera, I appreciate the encouragement

[@jmazz3314]

I’m on my way!! Love carambola

[@SleepyLizard]

Hey Jodi! I didn't know that. I'll bring you some on my next visit.

[@slickrock7406]

I use the banana stalks to fertilize my Avocado trees(and others). Only thing flowering here in 9b is Loquat. Racoons are bad this year, oh well. Keeps the vids going.

[@SleepyLizard]

Our Loquat is flowering too. Cant wait until the fruit is ready, so delicious. I try to encourage the raccoons to go elsewhere. The get the message quickly

[@SALTYCOMBATDIVER-ExInstructor]

Love this channel! I have a hat like hers...my spouse got it for me. You have got to write a book! Get to it already.

[@SleepyLizard]

I would love to write a book, except for I hate writing🤣

[@dmatcardoug2986]

Lovely Video. Your wife was enjoying her fruits, especially the Ice Cream Bananas! Nice. I need to get one of those Ice Cream Banana Pup!!

[@SleepyLizard]

drop on by!

[@dmatcardoug2986]

@@SleepyLizard I surely will. Will let you know.

[@charleshenderson1174]

Thanks

[@SleepyLizard]

You're welcome Charles.

[@mannymakingmoves]

I think we found a new star. Wife is great on camera.

[@SleepyLizard]

she's a starfruit star

[@erinpitt580]

Lovely ! These Avocados are the best. I love their taste and size, texture and color. I still cannot believe the Avocados in the store here, are the same size as the SEED from yours. I obviously do NOT live in Florida xD I will continue Ordering Avocados from you for life as long as you keep shipping them man ! Just now Ordered some more Avocados - am a little late from the last shipment to keep them going this time. I need to look up the Winter behavior of Avocados will help me understand when your supply might run out or change in size or texture / taste. Thanks for Everything Tom. - Each Fruit I have ordered from you, I still have all the Seeds and am growing their roots in containers now, until they are large enough to plant in a pot. I hope you will offer the stems you ship, so I have a chance to try and Graft them into better tasting fruits.

[@SleepyLizard]

Erin, you've given me an excellent idea to update the online store. I will list the varieties and what months they are available.

[@KerriEverlasting]

I love how down to earth you both are. Dayum I wish you lived closer I'd be putting the BBQ on for you. Put more wife in videos she's awesome (I totally luuuurve that accent lol) 😄 💖

[@SleepyLizard]

speaking of accents I'd love to hear you say "putting on the BBQ" in Australian 😝

[@KerriEverlasting]

@@SleepyLizard you'd all fall over laughing I think haha

[@JokingAtheist]

If I lived there, I would order. But no shipping to South Africa. Shame for me. Anyways love the vid such a lovely family too.

[@KerriEverlasting]

I'm in Australia, can't get it here either but I did get a totally awesome t-shirt! I can recommend the quality of the t-shirt! Very flattering and comfortable! 💖

[@SleepyLizard]

Thanks Joking Atheist, I always look forward to your comments.

[@SleepyLizard]

Kerri, you wear it well.

[@KerriEverlasting]

@@SleepyLizard that's a nice thing to say.

[@anekabibitimpor4748]

Indonesian have star fruit very sweat in my place very popular have a big size

[@SleepyLizard]

Yum yum. I ate some today right off the tree.

[@mwikakalima24]

love the video as usual Tom!!! 🤝😊

[@SleepyLizard]

thank you Mwika. How are things in your part of the world?

[@mwikakalima24]

@@SleepyLizard Hot and Wet? ☔🌤️ Rain Season is upon us 😁 hehehe it's actually my favorite season 🥰

[@SleepyLizard]

@@mwikakalima24 opposite here. It's cool and comfortable in the evenings and we are in the dry season

[@mwikakalima24]

@@SleepyLizard ohhhh nice

[@mwikakalima24]

I love when it gets cold during the rain season... when the clouds are grey and there's a chill in the air.... 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 ⛈️🌧️🌦️🌦️

[@ppkgaming210]

His wife is tropical.

[@SleepyLizard]

She is. She grew up spending the weekends at her grandmother's Mango farm in fact.

[@dire67]

There was a small tree on what's now my property that I had always wondered what it was called. Thank you for educating me. Today, I learned it was a Mayberry. I wonder if it's still there. I have my doubts.

[@SleepyLizard]

did it give you fruit?

[@dire67]

@@SleepyLizard it did. They were delicious. Our local name for it was kind of generic- fua melie, which simply means sweet fruit. Could mean anything.

[@anekabibitimpor4748]

I love you guys your wife pretty tom

[@SleepyLizard]

She adores your pink scarf

[@anekabibitimpor4748]

@@SleepyLizard 🙏😂😂

[@chinatownboy7482]

Uncle, @ 6:08 , Aunty looks like she can handle the machete well. Is she busy? Can she fly out here for a few days? Someone owes me money.

[@SleepyLizard]

I don't know if they'll let her bring the machete in her carry on

[@tesswagner895]

Yall are too cute and fun.😆 love to watch your videos. Thanks for sharing. Question: is there a variety of avocado that would do well here in north Texas, zone 7/8?

[@SleepyLizard]

Hi Tess, thank you for the compliment. and Yes you could grow Brogdan and Oro Negro where you are.

[@tesswagner895]

@@SleepyLizard do you sell these varieties from your farm or where would I find them? That's exciting.

[@SleepyLizard]

@@tesswagner895 I don't sell trees but you might try larafarmsmiami.org

[@tesswagner895]

@@SleepyLizard Great! Thanks!! IMy sisters and I love avocados! This would be a great to have some on our family farm in Texas. I have an 11 year old Hass I grew from seed in Idaho. Esme unfortunately has to stay root bound to live there as I have to bring her in for winter.

[@billb744]

Tom your wife is a fruit fanatic, jajajaja 😅

[@SleepyLizard]

yep. she found a passion fruit in our garden last night...woulda sworn she hit the lottery

[@billb744]

@@SleepyLizard she did in her mind

[@rawa5457]

👍👍👍

[@Eugenia_Farms]

you ever ship sapodilla?

[@SleepyLizard]

Jordon, not yet. I began planting it two years ago so I have a few more years before my crop is big enough to sell.

[@chakisnvideolog3004]

🎉🎉

[@SleepyLizard]

🥑

[@chakisnvideolog3004]

@@SleepyLizard

[@chakisnvideolog3004]

thank you watch youtube about avocado

[@PSwayBeats]

How's it going my avocado friend Florida I swear I thought you lived in some tropical place like Brazil or some shyt lol

[@SleepyLizard]

Psway, nah just regular ol' Florida 🤣

[@melchurmoreau5677]

It seems to me the birds are afraid of you guys, there's no way I can get a banana so ripe at home, birds eating that before it starts ripping

[@SleepyLizard]

birds eat a lot of our fruit. The only thing that gets at my bananas is my neighbors.

[@funmibalogun8543]

Am a farmer her in Nigeria and presently in Nigeria. Can I come and learn from you over there?

[@SleepyLizard]

Funmi, something tells me I could learn a lot more from you than you from me.

[@funmibalogun8543]

How and what? I am not sure if I have ever seen the fruits you shared. Please, let me know if my request is acceptable. Thanks

[@SleepyLizard]

@@funmibalogun8543 oh, I didn't know you were serious. I'm afraid I'm going decline your offer but I appreciate that you asked.

[@DivineTruth444]

Where are u located? What state?

[@SleepyLizard]

Hi Divine Truth, we are in south Florida

[@justhappy2behurr]

by chance do you have a brother that sells nugsmashers?

[@SleepyLizard]

what is a nugsmasher?

[@KerriEverlasting]

Ps - I heard banana is not a fruit? It's a herb?? Did I get it wrong? It looks pretty fruity to me ...

[@tuhocchoicotuong4745]

It's definitely fruit. I'm sure about that.

[@docdonsmith]

Is banana a herb or fruit? Banana plants are often mistaken for trees or palms - they are actually herbs. The banana is a perennial plant that replaces itself. Bananas do not grow from a seed but from a bulb or rhizome, and it takes 9 to 12 months from sowing a banana bulb to harvesting the fruit.

[@tuhocchoicotuong4745]

@@docdonsmith thanks. In my country, sometimes, people grow Banana from seed. Also, they usually plant theam like you said.

[@SleepyLizard]

Kerri, I don't know so I'm glad some knowledgable people answered your question. 🤣

[@SleepyLizard]

do you have a favorite banana?