What Did You Pick Today? 2014

[seedcorn]

Eating a honeydew right now. Took dog for walk and gave one to neighbors at end of road.

 

[Smart Red]

I picked a few Alpine strawberries for my cereal. Yum! I love having a few at a time all summer long.

 

[mydogdory]

I picked tomatos, basil, lettuce, and serranos! I can't handle the heat from the serranos when they're orange or red, so I pick them green.

 

[ninnymary]

seedcorn, don't tell me you had homegrown honeydew! I love all kinds of melons. I sure wish I could grow them.

Mary

 

[seedcorn]

Eaten 3 so far, one to neighbor, one to cohort, rest on back porch or still in garden.

Musk melons next-for wife as a bite OT two, I'm done.

Now if I could tell if watermelons were ripe!

 

[Smart Red]

It has been 11 years since I started the 'new' orchard. This is the first year I've gotten any plums. There are three trees bearing and two that have not flowered yet. Here is one of the 'harvest'.

This isn't the first plum, but it is the first one that made it into the house for a photo shoot. It is sitting beside a teaspoon for comparison.

Oh, and did I mention I've 'harvested' two figs from my tree so far? There is one left to ripen. The figs were about the size of a black olive, but delicious nonetheless.

 

[goatgurl]

picked a handful of grape tomatoes on the way to the barn and ate them before the goats could take them away from me

 

[digitS']

The first Galia melon ..!

We have a purchased watermelon, just cut up, and a cantaloupe. I think that they can go on hold today while we sample this year's first Passport Galia.

Reflecting on @Smart Red 's problems with the cloud berries. ... first, the Blacktail Mountain watermelon seeds all fail, then another season's plants are set out only to have the largest watermelon the size of a walnut on ... August 18!

Steve
almost in the shadow of Blacktail Mountain

 

[dewdropsinwv]

MontyJ picked grapes yesterday and made me some apple grape jelly

 

[digitS']

The first Charentais melon ...

I'm almost afraid to cut into it! These Alvaro melons are the 4th Charentais variety I've tried! I was sold on Burpee's Honey Girl. It produced wonderful melons most years. Then, it was discontinued.

The other varieties lived ... and, produced small nothing-special fruit just before frost.

This has been a much better melon year than most. Hardly fair to compare Alvaro. The wonderful smell of that Charentais should help on the decision to grow them again in 2015 .

Steve