The raspberries are officially in. For the last week I have been picking a handful or so each day. Yesterday was the first day I realized I actually needed a bowl. Yesterday morning was a gorgeous, warm, drizzley, silent morning. I wish I had these more often. My guess is that the raspberries will peak in about a week or so. If you want some talk to me! I honestly believe that raspberries are best eaten in the early morning right off of the bush. I think that is how the Lord intended it. And that is what I did. I also picked more than I could eat and froze them. I need to start my smoothie stash again. We ran out in about April this year. Maybe I can do enough to get us to next July.
Care to walk through the rest of my garden? Don't mind the weeds please.
These are my favorite apples. Very sweet, but they have kick! And when they are ripe they are PINK! This tree only blossoms every other year, so I am happy to see these ladies back. They will be ready end of september, early october.
Apricots. Not many of them this year. I think our cold spring had something to do with it.
Plums. We have quite a few of these. They do pretty well.
This is one of my mystery bushes. It has BEAUTIFUL red berries which I assumed to be choke cherries because they were pretty sour. Apparently not sour enough. Someone told me they thought they were Chinese Cherries. Is there such a thing? The really dark ones actually are pretty sweet, but the peel is sour. If I had the time I bet this would make a really yummy and pretty jelly.
The whole mystery bush. We need to prune. I know. Poor bush.
Grapes. Really good grape juice, early September.
Pears. They are usually ready end of october, really sweet, but they are rock hard. I have to let them sit for a week or two. Also the peel is disgusting. It feels like sand paper. But peeled and soft, it is delish.
Mystery berry #2. I am thinking maybe blueberries? The birds eat them before they are totally ripe, so they never finish changing color. They taste like a bland blueberry and have the same texture. KENZIE S! Help me out!
My tomaters are getting out of control in our green house. The hot heat though makes them grow crazy. I had a red one this morning and it was perfect. Hopefully in the next month I will be making some serious salsa!
Last but not least. My garden breakfast. My fresh picked raspberries in honey bunches of oats. YUM!
The raspberries are officially in. For the last week I have been picking a handful or so each day. Yesterday was the first day I realized I actually needed a bowl. Yesterday morning was a gorgeous, warm, drizzley, silent morning. I wish I had these more often. My guess is that the raspberries will peak in about a week or so. If you want some talk to me! I honestly believe that raspberries are best eaten in the early morning right off of the bush. I think that is how the Lord intended it. And that is what I did. I also picked more than I could eat and froze them. I need to start my smoothie stash again. We ran out in about April this year. Maybe I can do enough to get us to next July.
Care to walk through the rest of my garden? Don't mind the weeds please.
These are my favorite apples. Very sweet, but they have kick! And when they are ripe they are PINK! This tree only blossoms every other year, so I am happy to see these ladies back. They will be ready end of september, early october. 
Apricots. Not many of them this year. I think our cold spring had something to do with it.
Plums. We have quite a few of these. They do pretty well.
This is one of my mystery bushes. It has BEAUTIFUL red berries which I assumed to be choke cherries because they were pretty sour. Apparently not sour enough. Someone told me they thought they were Chinese Cherries. Is there such a thing? The really dark ones actually are pretty sweet, but the peel is sour. If I had the time I bet this would make a really yummy and pretty jelly.
The whole mystery bush. We need to prune. I know. Poor bush.
Grapes. Really good grape juice, early September.
Pears. They are usually ready end of october, really sweet, but they are rock hard. I have to let them sit for a week or two. Also the peel is disgusting. It feels like sand paper. But peeled and soft, it is delish. 
Mystery berry #2. I am thinking maybe blueberries? The birds eat them before they are totally ripe, so they never finish changing color. They taste like a bland blueberry and have the same texture. KENZIE S! Help me out!
My tomaters are getting out of control in our green house. The hot heat though makes them grow crazy. I had a red one this morning and it was perfect. Hopefully in the next month I will be making some serious salsa!
Last but not least. My garden breakfast. My fresh picked raspberries in honey bunches of oats. YUM!
6 comments:
Shannon,
I LOVE your yard! You make me want to look for a new home, and buy it for the fruit trees. Your such a cute homemaker, I picture you busily preserving your pristine jars of red jelly and munching on a pink apple satisfied that your pantry is stocked for the winter. Nice work getting everything to produce!
Oh, I don't do it. Mother nature does. I'm sure we could help a little more than we do though.
Shannon-- looks to me like you're right...I just don't know the exact cultivar for either! There are a few different kinds of blueberries, and tons of cherries. But it's not Chinese Cherry for sure. That's a tree with really pretty striped bark. Sorry I couldn't be more help. We didn't really learn the different varieties in my class-- not enough time and had to learn to cultivate more! Hope you're well! Sorry if I'm wrong.....
i found your blog... yipee! what a beautiful garden. someday i hope to have one of my own. as long as we are doing summer sales it will be impossible... hopefully these days are done soon. is daren installing this summer?
random, but... I loved what you wrote about adoption. i don't wanna sound corny, but what you said about having children someday, not made in your image but in the image of god, was beautiful. you and daren are so deserving of raising his, God's children. I saw you got all your papers in to adopt. That is awesome!!! Tell daren hello. take care and come visit our blog
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I can't believe how awesome your yard is!!! My dream yard......
Ooooo, I love all the fruits of your garden! I can't wait 'til our fruit trees get bigger and start producing, hopefully next year!
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