#nectaplums

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

When my green beans come in they come! I’ve extolled the virtues of Emerite pole beans before. The abundance is shared with neighbors and I peruse my green beans recipe folder for new ways to use them.

Refrigerator Dilly Green Beans was easy and quick as we dealt with 65 pounds of nectaplums late in the week.

This is some of the haul as we stripped the two trees. Though a luscious fruit, they are fragile and losses occur when kept at room temperature very long. Neighbors receive the nectaplums readily and I delivered about 40 pounds over the weekend.

Last night I found myself making a crostata at 8 p.m. with fruit that would not survive until morning and the fridge was full. Thankfully, my husband prepped the nectaplums and there was a premade piecrust in the freezer.

And that was after an afternoon of making nectaplum-raspberry jam. I made the first batch as a trial to freeze and refrigerate and the second I processed.

I’m thankful we have a respite from apricots, apples and nectaplums before the strawberry guavas ripen late next month. The freezer is full of sauces, fruit puree for homemade ice cream and various other delights to preserve the goodness.

And the promising marionberry crop was very good until it wasn’t. Winter rains may have produced a large crop but after a few weeks the botrytis fungus won out following a spate of overcast, dank days.

And Sunday’s church entry bouquet: grevillea, leucadendron, gomphrena, eleagnus and pennisetum.

For the remainder of August, I’ll generally be posting on Mondays and Thursdays instead of the usual M-W-F routine. Enjoy the waning summer days (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere)!

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I add to the summer garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

[standinmyworld]

[acoraxia]

I’ve been calling sunburst duo “peacherines” since I made their dynamic one of my favorites — same thing with “cloud nine” for swk and lxj

Wtf is a sunburst duo

Wtf is that

Stop speaking to me in riddles (/j/j/j)

[robustcornhusk]

"nectaplum"

[larsminute]

first harvest! / #necatarine #plum #hybrid #nectaplum #balcony #garden (at St Kilda, Victoria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuQxtFsHUao/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xsb1a2dn4v1d

[elanshukartsi]

NectaPlums #growyourfood #farmhousekitchen #fruit #tree #organic #patience #healthysnacks #growyourown #smallfarm https://www.instagram.com/p/BzrFaeJpPnr/?igshid=ss1kdkg4j1lj

[fishantsplantsanddave]

Nectaplum (at Unl East Campus..)

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

I’ve taken a break over the last month. I updated and reposted a few popular and timely blog posts while we spent several weeks in Washington State, visiting our son’s family (and the grands, ages 4 and nearly 2). We spent long weekends with them near Seattle then camped and savored North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Deception Pass State Park and Whidbey Island.

We also hiked, walked PNW seashores and took in a lavender farm at its peak. We’re happy to be home and thankful for our coastal location in the midst of this “heat season.”

Garden tenders kept the young summer garden going and now I’m doing the same for one of them. Several first harvests occurred while we were away and I was amazed by the growth of tomatoes, beans, peppers, zinnias and corn over sixteen days. Long days and sunny weather work their magic.

First harvests deserve a single (vs. group) photo. The ‘Raven’ zucchini plants produce several like this daily which keeps me and a few neighbors happy.

Sauteed zucchini slices and shallots were topped with browned herb panko crumbs for the first use.

This was the first of daily harvests of trellised green beans. I find ‘Emerite’ pole beans pleasant at this size but prefer them even thinner. Dilly refrigerator pickled green beans are planned for tomorrow. My folder of green bean recipes provides daily inspiration.

Nectaplums are the fruit of the week (or month) now. We picked 15 pounds yesterday. The crop was thinned but likely we’ll probably still have 75-100 pounds from the two trees. Kitchen work ahead and plenty to share.

Like other fruit this year, the rhubarb is late and only now coming into full production. It’s an extender for many of my fruit sauces using apples and strawberry guavas.

And oh the glorious flowers now.

Here’s a bouquet my four-year-old grandson, Shiloh made from one of our “flower walks.”

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I add to the summer garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Two of the fruit harvests finished last week. The Dorsett Golden espaliered apple tree provided 25 pounds of fruit. There will likely be a second smaller crop in the fall. About two-thirds has been processed but the apples hold well in the fridge.

The apricot tree yielded 50 pounds this year compared with 120 pounds last year. One tree died over the winter and another is waning. We did plant a replacement early low-chill apricot in January.

Apricot jam was a morning’s project last week. Only one batch this year with the smaller harvest.

Rhubarb is a great extender. My best example is a triple berry jam which also includes some rhubarb. The berries dominate but I don’t need as many. This week it extended various fruit sauces frozen for the next three seasons.

Fruit sauces for the freezer: apricot-applesauce, rhubarb-applesauce and rhubarb-guava-applesauce.

We gather enough strawberries for breakfast or a mixed fruit salad most days. The first marionberry ripened last week. It was perfect. We’re now hoping for sunny weather to decrease the chances of botrytis, a fungal disease which has taken the crop some years under cool, humid conditions. Predictions suggest sun and 70 degrees this week.

I pulled a few of the January planted Bolero carrots. The seed was pelletized and the rains plentiful. Some of the nicer carrots I’ve grown in recent years.

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I transition to summer in the garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres Blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Leading with red onions seems paltry when other gardeners have tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and other summer veggies to showcase. The garden is slow and shows the consequences of May Gray, June Gloom and now, No Sky July. Will Fogust follow?

My red onions are grown from sets planted in the fall and I enjoy scallions, spring onions and then I turn around and see the bulbs have formed about now and it’s time to pull them. They don’t store well but they get used promptly after drying. Growing onions from seed is tedious in the fall with warm weather here and the need to keep the soil well-watered. So I resort to onion sets.

I’ve only harvested zucchini which doesn’t mind the local weather. So far, I’ve not saturated the neighborhood and have lots of takers. Raven from Renee’s Garden is a fifteen year favorite.

Even over-sized zucchini that occasionally escape my notice show a firm inner flesh with few seeds. The plants are compact, nearly spineless and the dark green fruits are smooth-skinned and glossy.

Coming soon are the Emerite pole beans, Baby Belle peppers and Chelsea Prize cucumbers. A few tomatoes have sized up but are still very green. Chocolate laceflowers (in the bouquet at the end of post) are alluring and I pause when I pass by.

A week ago our house was “tented” for termites—an every ten year event. Plants too close to the foundation have to be moved and others have to be trimmed up and the soil saturated with water to prevent the gas from killing the plants. Inside, food not in factory sealed glass or cans has to be removed or bagged. Medications too.

The biggest garden project was lifting and removing three huge clumps of rhubarb. They remained out of the ground in the shade of the orange tree covered with wet towels for a week. Yesterday they went back in the ground, fortified with more compost and fruit tree fertilizer. So far so good.

We’ve only gathered a few nectaplums but soon the counters and fridge will be full. In recent years we’ve had over 100 pounds from the two trees. Thankfully, this year’s crop is more modest. By August last year I had “stone fruit PTSD.”

And my Sunday church bouquet with a new favorite, Chocolate Lace Flower , seeds from Floret. Little Ollie foliage teams with Seashells Cosmos and zinnias.

The summer garden is planted now. Likely no time or room for succession crops since I’ll begin planting the winter garden in late September. As thing finish, I’ll tuck in lettuce starts and add some arugula to the empty spaces.

Check out Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

[standinmyworld]

[standinmyworld]

[standinmyworld]

[standinmyworld]

[standinmyworld]