This week marks the beginning of the season's summer harvest, and the star this week is apricots! Our four apricot trees are producing like crazy, and we are dehydrating, canning, and preserving them as quickly as they are falling from the trees. Below is just one day's harvest of apricots, and the trees are still loaded with more. Our local food shelf may benefit from this bumper crop. And to think that just eight months ago, I asked our tree specialist to take down the apricot trees because they were too large and produced low-volume, poor quality, worm-infested fruit. He suggested pruning the trees instead, so I gave them another chance. What a difference the tree pruning made.
Just one tree would have been enough fruit for us, and we have three others that are as heavy with apricots as this one.
Other harvests this week included Swiss chard, beans, raspberries, black currants, and red currants. The red currants made a fine sorbet; the black currants yielded seven jars of jelly, and the raspberries are producing as heavily as the apricots. Perhaps an apricot-raspberry sorbet or smoothie is in our future.
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Helene, these pics are just gorgeous (and mouthwatering!). What ever do you with all this healthy produce?? If life had not been so crazy this summer, I would have swooped in and snuck away with many, many apricots--they are so delish! How'd the okra turn out this year?
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