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Harvest Monday, May 10, 2010
Now that my first peaches are ripe and the first potatoes are dug, I’m finally seeing harvests in pounds instead of ounces. This past week is the best so far. Come to think of it, I’ve been too busy to...
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Harvest Monday, April 30 2012
Where is the time going? It’s going to be May tomorrow and I’m sooooo far behind in my planting. I have done nothing with either the community garden (other than weed it) or the Garden of Infinite...
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Harvest Monday May 14, 2012
The weather here in southern California is gorgeous today. There is a hint of humidity in the air and I can smell the ocean and earth and spring outside. Delightful. Drifts of beautiful pink Mexican...
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Harvest Monday, April 14, 2014
Spring has most definitely sprung in my southern California garden. Everything is green, growing, lush, and colorful now. Just give it a few months. Our gardens wilt in the summer heat. We will get no...
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Harvest Monday on April 22, 2014
Once again, I am late posting my harvests for last week. And I didn’t take many photos either. But I sure had some good harvests. Our Florida Prince peach has decided to ripen all of its fruit at once....
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A warm Harvest Monday and setting harvest expectations for 2015
The weather here was fairly warm in January. Those 70 degree days and 50 degree nights would seem wonderful on the surface. But as a fruit grower, I know that many of my fruit tree varieties require a...
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Growing fruit on my urban Southern California mini-farm
I have worked really hard over the past 8 years to convert our small, urban southern California yard into a productive mini-farm. I have Barbara Kingsolver and her book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” to...
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Most beautiful spring ever, March 2015
I don’t know what it is, the age of our plantings or the weather, but this has turned into the most beautiful spring ever in our southern California yard and garden. I am utterly enthused about our...
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Peaches and Spot Prawns–but not together!
We are having an interesting adventure with local eating. First of all, our Florida Prince peach tree is bearing ripe fruit. Our first picking of ripe peaches this year. Oh, good, peaches! I’ll make a...
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My woeful garden, June 2015
I just posted “Woes of an Urban Chicken Farmer” or something like that. Now it is time for “woes of a backyard gardener in a changing climate.” Earlier, I posted about the low number of winter chill...
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