Category: fruit
One pleasure of gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area is the ability to grow citrus. While we don’t get the heat that produces the bountiful harvests of…
The genus Ribes includes currants and gooseberries (the name is derived from a Farsi word meaning “acid-tasting”). Gooseberries bear thorns but currants are thornless. Gooseberry fruits are larger…
These are a few of the infusions I’m preparing to be used in a new citrus amaro. I like the different colors. Left to right: Eureka Lemon, Satsuma…
This is the pomegranates’ second summer here. They are growing in large containers. I think they were two years old when I purchased them. Now at last they…
Lost two fairly big lemon tree branches to excessive fruit weight. Should have thinned them out, but this has never happened before, so I wasn’t concerned. What should…
Generous persimmon harvest again this year. All from one tree. I could get a couple more bins like these, but I think I have enough! Got to leave…
We inherited the lemon tree from a previous resident. We’ve been here for decades and have never bought a lemon since moving in.
Here in the SF Bay area, our seasons occur on the cross-quarters. The equinox is more mid-spring than the beginning of spring. Our spring starts with the cross-quarter: Candlemas,…
I like the fall color of the persimmon. I left several persimmons on the round table under the umbrella to the right of the tree. I came home…