beautiful color, want take a bite 
1st harvest from the Shinko A. pears. Ants and Squirrels have started their work! And we already had A. pears up our ears for the past month. Couple bucketful were given away!
And the tree is still loaded with this much left!
I’ll thin out the fruitlets more heartlessly next year!
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Holy moly. That’s a lot of pears. 
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I had my first Flavor King Pluot today, Brix was only 17, but it was very sweet. To me I can taste the apricot in them. It tastes like no plum I ever had. I’m afraid I was gone most of the last 2 weeks, and the squirrels got all of them except one. My dog keeps them out, but he was with me. I’m going to have to net next year. Again these were fantastic, very different from anything I ever tasted.
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With my daughter’s help, I dug up the last of the potatoes from my April planting today. Papa Cacho is a tough, long lasting plant. It has been exactly 150 days since I planted it (April 24th) and the vines have been dying over the last week or so. I just had 7-8’ of them planted and it produced over 16 pounds. That is almost exactly how much I got from 25+ feet worth of red, yellow, blue, and purple potatoes on July 19th (post #364 in this thread). So these take a lot longer, but they seem durable and produce a nice yield.
They are also very large. The biggest is almost 9" long. In addition to the quarters and ruler, this pic also has a Red Boskoop apple (upper left), which is 4" wide by 3.5" tall.
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So sad!
Yes but they have a nice color. I’d bet they were tasty.
They where wonderful. They actually fell on the ground with the rain today
Hope they were both sweet and wonderful. More next year!
These are not really from my orchard,they belong to the city of San Jose,CA.I was at Emma Prusch Farm Park and picked some Figs.I’m not sure what variety,but they’re sugary sweet and are about the only ones near ripe on many trees there.Brady
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Those figs are great. I hope to get 4-5 more before weather.
Looks like the size of my fig harvist. I had never had a fresh fig before. They are a treat. Hope you enjoy them.
Pink Mott apple fritters this am. for breakfast. Making pink applesauce with the rest of them this afternoon. My favorite apple!
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Lizzy,
Have you tried the Osborne Prolific fig (aka Archipel)?
In 1955, Ira Condit describes it as performing well along cooler Pacific coast locations so long as it gets caprified by the fig wasp. Do you know if the fig wasp is in your area?
See pages 414 & 415 of this document:
Maybe another fig to look into? I know that cuttings of this variety have been circulating on this forum.
Hey Matt, thanks for the tip. That is a great document–I’ve downloaded it and will read more of it soon. I’m trying to find out whether the fig wasp is around here. My guess is yes. Apparently it was introduced in California and made the commercial fig industry possible, but I don’t know if that means it is prevalent all over the state. I will ask on the cloudforest gardener forum, which is local to Santa Cruz. I’ve seen Osborne Prolific for sale at local nurseries, and I hope they wouldn’t sell it unless it had good quality crops, but I had terrible luck with Brown Turkey, so who knows… I think I will start with a graft and see how it does. Thanks again!
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These are the last fruits I have that are still growing,a few Feijoa.First time ever for the two plants.The ones pictured are an unnamed cultivar and have another,a Coolidge that bear three earlier in November.I’m waiting for one of these to fall. Brady
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What is it with Parsley! I can’t kill the stuff, both ‘Curly’ and ‘Italian’ are going strong in pots and in raised beds. I really hate to pull it. Sometimes it has ‘overwintered’ well. There is nothing like fresh herbs!