Showing posts with label harvest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harvest. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Evening walk.

 
It's been a couple of weeks since Doc and I have been able to go for an evening walk, thanks to my increased fatigue levels and his busy work schedule. By the time he gets home from work it's either getting dark, or I'm half asleep watching "Family Guy."
 
 
I've been mentioning how much I've missed our evening walks lately, and Doc was determined to get me out for one last night. And he knew just how to do it.
 
"Wanna go see if the figs down the street are ripe yet?"
 
 
Done and done.
 
{36 weeks and 5 days}
 

 
We're fortunate that there are two public fig trees in our village, and they're not far from our house.
 
 
And luckily I had my number #1 fig picker with me.
 
 
We've had some weird weather this summer, so the figs (and other local fruits for that matter), are coming in a few weeks late, but it doesn't make me any less happy.
 
{Where's Waldo Doc?}
 
{The fig and the bump}
 
 {Half of our evening's harvest}
 
 
I may not be doing the same 5 miles walks I was a few weeks ago, but evening fall walks to pick up some dessert are just as fruitful (ha!) in my book.
 
A la prochaine friends...
 
Honey


Tuesday, July 2, 2013

A (very) small bounty.

 
Yesterday I had a tasty little treat to go with my breakfast - our first fig of the 2013 season!
 
 
This delicious little guy came from a winter fig embryo on our French Brown Turkey tree, (ie a fig that didn't ripen last fall, but didn't shrivel up and fall off the tree over the winter, and matured early summer), which I propagated from a cutting 2 years and 7 months ago.
 
 
This guy was tiny, but sweet and delicious.
 
 
This looks like it's all of the breba crop we'll be getting this year, thanks to the lack of sunshine here in SwitzerFrance from April - May, but we've got 10-15 little figs growing on each of 5 of our other trees. Fingers crossed for a fig filled fall in the Duggan Terrace Orchard!
 
 
A la prochaine friends...
 
Honey
 
P.S. Want to grow your own little fig tree? Here's one of my past postings on how to propagate your own tree from a fig cutting! Good luck!


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Harvest.


We've had some harvestin' going down oh yes we have...



[Cayenne Peppers...]


[Beets.]

I packed our front planter to beejeezus and back, and it looks like everything has grown. Swiss chard, beets, several cayenne pepper plants, basil plants, radishes, chives, and some great looking parsley. On the patio upstairs our strawberry plants keep creepin' and giving us a few strawberries a week, and we've got two eggplants growing. Oh yeah and this...


A little apricot plant, grown from seed, poked it's head out of the soil on Sunday. Welcome to the world little apricot plant!