First blackberry pick ever! Osage. Some not quite ripe, others amazingly sweet.
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More Methley Plums and my first ever homegrown Apricot, an Alfred. I haven’t had a perfectly ripened Apricot in many years, it was absolutely delicious
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Having keto fried young doe tenderloin for dinner tonight … with okra squash and tomatoes…all from the garden or harvested here on my land.
Illini blackberries for desert.
Love it when I put it all on the plate 
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I like to say I pick this much everyday, but I take what I can get. These berries do ripen up very quickly and there are still tons of green berries out there. This will temper my raspberry order for next year.
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That’s a beautiful apricot!
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For raspberries, (if you haven’t done this already) you can easily triple their harvest if you tip them on primary canes. It will delay the fruiting by a couple of weeks.
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Made a fabulous tomato sauce using my cherry tomatoes and bush tomatoes. Handfuls if basil.
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@mrsg47 … add some onion garlic peppers heavy whipping cream for some very good creamy tomato basil soup.
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Look for a recipe called tomato soup Andalouse. Just posted the recipe in fruit from the garden. It is excellent.
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@mrsg47 … yes that sounds very similar to what i make…
But… i prefer to roast my tomatoes onion garlic celery, etc in the oven… then make soup of roasted veggies and add the HWC and fresh basil near the end.
Good stuff…
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This is an original recipe from Spain.
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Today I pulled some young garlic and roasted them with olive oil and Don’s Blackened seasoning.
The garlic didn’t grow well as I largely ignored them and we’ve had long stretched of dry weather. About 5 inches of the stem to small single paperless bulb is edible.
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My first two no spray Red Baron peaches and more Joan J raspberries. Even the peaches were covered in tulle and tin foil, some bugs did get in there, at least I can cut them out.
I will pick 2 more tomorrow, they are not as soft as these two, and I will make peach cobbler, looking forward to that and ice cream. I didn’t thin these peaches at all, 2 years in the ground, not too bad for my first crop, I have about 10 more out there, they are a little small.
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Blushing Star peach ripe off the tree. Had to thin it twice in the last two weeks as I was afraid the huge fruit was going to break limbs.
All gone! Very small pit as you can see.
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