Just one more photo from our trip to Botanical
Bay at the end of July. I have more photos from this interesting trip for
inclusion in the Botanical Bay album on my old web page. Was glad to have had a
very good couple of days of fog over the River at our campsite and sunshine on
the Bay in the morning hunt for treasurers at low tide.
This is the harvest from my back garden at the
end of August. The plum tree was loaded with plums. I made several jars of
plum sauce, but did not use or give away even half of the crop this year. This
tree is in need of a severe pruning, but is producing so very much fruit for the
sad looking shape it appears to be in. There were a few purple beans. They
turn green when boiled. I made a trellis for the few beans we picked up in
Dragon Alley last year. There are a few more beans on the plants now. I am
saving the pods and want to dry them to add to soups. The grapes had a few
bunches, this year. There was some eaten by birds or squirrels before I got to
them. In the front of the photo is what is probably one of the first figs of
the year. So far we have had 12 edible figs and lots of still green ones, that
never ripen in time to be edible.
This is the September harvest of the purple
plums. We picked 40 lbs of plums and I preserved them in these pint jars. They
are delicious. They are good with icecream, frozen yogurt or just as they are
from the jars. We have 7 jars left and I have given some away.
We had a
short trip in June/July. Since then the summer seems to have just zipped by.
Our trip to Botanical Bay, and then our summer in the city has been most
wonderful and busy. In September we had car events that kept us busy. Into
October and I am renovating the pond / Japanese garden area.
We have had
beautiful weather, for the past few months, even though we have been in a
drought. I have watered the garden occasionally and the perennials seem to be
doing ok. The apple tree is loaded with fruit, so that will be the next harvest
probably the end of this month.
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