So far, this year has been the best one for fruit since I bought Sunset. I have never seen so many plums; we have a big bowl of them in the kitchen. I’ve made jam and cobbler and Chinese plum sauce, and I’m putting the ones too bruised for human consumption into Cicero’s dinner. And that’s only the plum trees on the west side of the house; the one in the north paddock is dropping them there for the animals to eat as well. Then there are the blackberries, which are nearly always abundant, and though the apples aren’t yet ripe I can see there are plenty of them. If I had to guess why we’ve had such a good season, I’d have to say it’s probably a combination of the weather (which was both seasonally and regionally appropriate this year) and the fact that one of our neighbors started keeping bees, so we probably had better pollination than usual. If that’s the case, this may betoken more good years to come. And if that’s the case, I should probably think of more ways to make use of all this fruit!
Archive for August 29th, 2023
Diary #687
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