Fruits and Vegetables
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A beautiful ornamental and edible pumpkin.
Earlier in the season as this pumpkin grows and turns orange.
Gravenstein apple tree in bloom in the spring.
Gravenstein apples almost ready to pick.
A single apple is ready to pick.
Almost ready to pick.
A new vegetable bed with drip irrigation and a new 'espalier' of fruit trees behind.
A vegetable bed with beans and other veggies just starting.
Beans, squash, marigolds, and nasturtium.
The squash and cucumbers are growing prolifically now.
A young watermelon.
A young squash and a new one that just flowered.
Future Meyer lemons.
Tomatillas in the summer...great for salsa verde and green enchilada sauce.
A bee hive on the property to benefit this home's flowers, fruits and vegetables as well as the neighborhood.
A new backyard vineyard in the spring, waiting for the vines to be planted.
Grapes for eating or wine making.
A barn owl box on the property for biological control of moles, voles, gophers, and rats. It's recommended that neighbors in the greater neighborhood also install owl boxes since barn owls tend not to hunt close to their own home. Other owls or animals might also make this their home.
The first sunflower of the season just opening.
Young zucchini.
Pickling cucumbers.
French string beans.
Early tomatoes.
Ah, some of those tomatoes look ready to pick!
More tomatoes!
