tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73623825198130074182024-03-05T22:48:31.484-08:0022 Treesdiddenchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03057806353187438911noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362382519813007418.post-57575756649199010862013-06-09T20:51:00.000-07:002013-06-10T05:59:01.868-07:00Harvest Monday 6/10/13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Haven't posted in a few weeks, actually it might be a month, but things have been busy. With summer just days away for us, and the temps getting warmer all of the fruits and veggies have been growing like crazy. Apricot season came and went with a dozen or so nice big pieces of fruit off of the new tree, the old Blenheim gave us quite a large crop of small but tasty fruit. Then it was the new Santa Barbara Plum tree, maybe 15-20 big juicy plums, see picture of the littlest farmer below, sooo good. The old plum tree did not give us much this year, I did prune it pretty hard this winter, so I didn't expect much. Now the first of two crops of figs. The new Brown Turkey has 4-5 nice figs, with many little figs for the fall crop. The older fig tree is where it's at!! A lot of BIG figs, now I just have to beat the squirrels. A few oranges, grapefruit and mandarins still on the trees, </div>
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Finally got the garlic and onions dried. Actually TPW did all the work. We should have quite a bit of garlic for the summer and fall</div>
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Went to school last week and found this little guy next to the lost and found bin. Got a pair of tongs and a trash can, grabbed him and took him to a better area, for both him and the kids. One of the great things about living and teaching in the Santa Monica Mountains is the wild life. Great reptiles, mammals, birds and plants, and being a science teacher you never know when the next teachable moment is going to poke it's head out. The picture is a little blurry, but he was about 1.5 feet, two small rattles on it's tail. Oh yeah, it was a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. Haven't seen any in the garden yet? </div>
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<br />diddenchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03057806353187438911noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362382519813007418.post-65360682597556821562013-05-05T19:44:00.000-07:002013-05-05T19:44:13.998-07:00Harvest Monday 5/6/13<br />
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Things have been pretty hot and dry here lately, and when I say hot I mean 96 degrees and 6% humidity. We have had some big fires north of us for the past few days, but believe it or not rain is in the forecast. It's late in the season for rain, but we're ready, rain barrels cleaned and primed. Lots coming out of the garden, lettuce, spinach, herbs, chard, kale, avocado, and lots of citrus, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and oranges.</div>
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Getting a handful of strawberries a day, but they don't last long. Finally harvesting the garlic that was planted on the fall. Now to dry, I have been reading all different ways, but can't settle on any. So... any suggestions would be great. It's pretty warm and dry here so I think that they might be able to lay on the dirt. Just don't want the slugs or any other vermon to get them before I do.</div>
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Elephant garlic on the right regular garlic on the left. These babies are huge. Onions are ready as well, sweet white onions.</div>
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And this years winner of the first tomato plant to kick out fruit goes to the Champion in the upside down pot. Finished putting in tomato plants today, now have 15 plants in various spots around the garden. Hope it's better this year, I think things just got to hot last year, however if yesterdays temp was any indication of things to come we are in trouble. 93 degrees yesterday. Lots coming out of the garden: spinach, lettuce, last beets, snap peas, herbs, oranges, tangerines, avocado, chard, kale. I think that's it?</div>
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First figs on the new tree, we usually get 2 crops, the older tree has fruit on it as well. Looks like the severe pruning I did last year is going to pay off.<br />
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to this. The only thing better than fresh squeezed OJ, is popsicles made with fresh squeezed OJ!</div>
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Pound for pound potatoes are the best bang for your buck. I gave these guys little if any attention over the past year, and they have consistently produced. It's a bummer that TPW and I are the only ones that like them. I just put more in, Yukon Gold and Reds. I have been switching over to the summer stuff, but I am going to try to keep the cilantro, lettuce and spinach going as long as I can. Still getting lots of citrus, avocadoes, lettuce, spinach, herbs, and other assorted leafy greens. Onions and strawberries should be ready in a few weeks. </div>
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This chard plant has stalks as wide as my hand, and just the other day the littlest farmer go lost in a patch of cilantro, had to send in his brother to get him out<br />
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Along with the veggies I have been planting cactus for the past few years. My brother has a place down in Joshua Tree and I come home with boxes of assorted cactus every time we visit. I have them all around the garden fence to keep the rabbits out. A picture of some of the sweet peas that I have growing on the garden fence.<br />
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Spring time on the farm and things are bursting. As you can see below the littlest farmer's head has been over taken by cilantro. All of the greens are exploding, lettuce, spinach, cilantro, herbs, as well as beets, onions and snap peas. We are also still getting oranges as well avocados. My favorite citrus this year has to be the Tangelo. They are so juicy that you have to eat them outside or you risk a puddle of orange juice at your feet. </div>
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A sad day today at 22trees. We lost one of our first chickens, Colonel Sanders, we had had her for 3.5 years. She had stopped laying eggs about 6 months ago, and in the last few days had become pretty bad. Yesterday she just sat in one spot for the entire day, and when I put her back in the coop I was afraid that I might have to put her out of her misery in the morning, however it was not needed. We found her on the floor of the coop this morning. Its funny how attached we become to our pets, and how much they become a part of our life. We will all miss her.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Navel and blood for juicing and tangelos for peeling. One
navel is almost done while the other is just starting. They are literally 20
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Fuerte on the right and Hass on the left. Notice the squirrel's calling card on the one in the top left corner. Grrrrrrrr!<br />
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So we had been getting eggs pretty sporadically and had chalked it up to
cold weather, and new chickens. However, TPW was cleaning out the coop and
found their cache. Looks like they are laying after all. So... went out to the
garden cut some chard, and had omelets for breakfast. Lots of fresh squeezed OJ as well. We have two large Navel orange trees that have worked out a system, one tree's fruit ripens about a month before the other. Perfect! Valencia should be ready in a month as well.<br />
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A small sample of the harvest for thw week. Finally getting beets. Looking forward to them for dinner this week. Also radishes, lettuce, spinach and of course citrus and avocados. Life is good!</div>
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From freezing to 80 degrees in less than five days. Amazing how the temperature has switched so fast and, we might even get rain by the end of the week. Oh well, no one is complaining about wearing flip flops! Lots of citrus, as you can see, we have been drinking fresh squeezed orange juice for the past week, and if all goes well for the next 3-4 months. The littlest farmer would eat the tangelos all day if we let him, when he gets home from school the first thing he does is head out to the garden to get his after school snacks. The mandarin still has a couple of weeks, as does the Valencia orange. Getting lots of leafy greens, 5 different kinds of lettuce plus spinach, chard, cilantro, a little kale, radish, and some potatoes. </div>
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Lots of Cilantro and lettuce. I planted 6 different kinds of lettuce this year, they all seem to be doing well.</div>
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<br />diddenchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03057806353187438911noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362382519813007418.post-50041680972087831482012-12-02T19:42:00.001-08:002012-12-02T19:42:35.312-08:00Harvest Monday 12/3/12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The rain has finally come. We have been getting a steady drizzle for the past 4 days, nothing like our friends up in Northern California, but down here any rain is good rain. All of the veggies that I planted in Oct & early Nov are now starting to be harvested. Lots of leafy greens and herbs, beets are not far off. The citrus continue to get bigger and oranger.</div>
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What do you do with your Pineapple guava? We have a tree that gives us a few bags full every year, but no one here is a fan. Any good ideas? Have been getting lettuce, cilantro and a few limes. Most of the citrus won't be ready until January at the earliest. Avocados are getting bigger, still a few months off as well, all of the seeds that I put in, see previous posts, are up and getting taller by the day. Still warm, but we did get a few drops of rain the other day!</div>
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All is well here on the farm, believe it or not, it was 95 degrees here yesterday, November 6th and 95 degrees! I would really like to be done with summer. Have had to keep an eye on the new trees, not only has it been hot, we have had strong winds the past few days. I had to add some extra support to the avocado tree. While I may not be so into the heat, all of the seedlings that I have put in are. Cilantro, beets, spinach, lettuce, onions, garlic are all looking good. We have started harvesting some of the lettuce and cilantro, and are still getting peppers and basil. The new chickens have stated to roam a little, but the Giant keeps them in check. </div>
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A lot more going in than coming out at this point. Only a few pepper plants left over from the summer, but man are they still producing, Fresno Chilies, Yellow and Purple Bell Peppers. Already getting some lettuce and cilantro. It's nice to finally get the fall planting underway. It was 100 degrees last week, but finally the days are getting cooler as are the nights. We even had a little drizzle this weekend. Put in some potatoes, shallots, carrots, and more lettuce. Citrus trees are all heavy, some are even starting to change color! The Blood Orange tree is especially productive this year. </div>
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One of the advantages of a close farmers market is that you get to know the vendors. I met one of the avocado growers from ACE Ranch, which is in Escondido, south of LA. He brought up a Reed avocado for me that I put in the ground yesterday. Now with a little work, some TLC and luck I should have another avo tree that kicks out a lot of fruit.<br />
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Satsuma Mandarin to round out the citrus selection.</div>
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It's been quite a while since I last posted, thought that fall was here then 100 degree days prove that that was just wishful thinking. Notice Col. Sanders below taking a little dip. September was pretty hot around, it was tough watching the plants that I had worked so hard to raise from a seed wither under the intense sun. </div>
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The last harvest, even found a carrot that I planted last fall. The only pumpkin that I grew came from TPW's compost.<br />
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Along with the garden and fruit trees I have also been planting alot of native plants. The Santa Barbara Botanical Garden has an awesome plant sale for the entire month of October, quite a selection. Put in 24 plants, lots of different Salvia, some Trichostema lanatum, and a couple of Matilija poppy. Have to find plants that don't need a lot water. Got two new chickens, 1 Barred Rock and 1 Blue Andalusian, the older girls have been either brooding, molting or the heat has shut them down. Not a lot of eggs recently.<br />
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down here with the high temps that we have been having, 3 weeks of high 90's
and 100's. Friday it was 106, Saturday 104, Sunday 102. All of the tomatoes are
crispy, still getting peppers though, as well as onions, figs, basil, and a few
other herbs. The citrus are heavy with golf ball size fruit and both the Hass
and Fuerte have lots of little avos on them. But what this time of the year
really means to us here at 22trees is Horn worm wrangling! We found these big
boys and left them under the watchful eyes of a couple guards. They never had a
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This juvenile Great Horned owl has been hanging out around our house for the
last couple of days. Young ones will actually fly around
during the day. The boys and I have been dissecting owl
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Well things have cooled down a little, only 95. We had 2 solid weeks of 100+ weather, and the garden took a hit. It's always hard this time of the year, I really have to decide what will live and what will get crispy. Ever year I plant more and more drought tolerant plants and heat lovers. The tomaotes, peppers, squash, all love this heat, the cucs, corn, strawberries and herbs have a hard time. Still getting tomatoes off at least 8 of the plants, and peppers from 5 of the plants. However, we did have a few surprises, potatoes being the big one!! Can't believe they made it, I thought for sure they were goners. TPW made some pretty tasty potato salad, I have been able to dig up about 20 per week. The fig tree is in full effect, trying to beat the birds is hard, but I have managed to stay one step ahead of them. </div>
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And to think, I thought that we would lose this Lisbon Lemon tree. When we first moved in it looked like it was going to fall over at any moment. With a little pruning and some food this tree is kicking out large lemons ALL the time!! TPW made us lemonade all last week.</div>
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So I returned last week after 2 weeks away, and things have been a little warm. We have had 5 days in a row with 105+ temperatures, however the weather man says that it should cool off to around 102. The garden has been a little crispy, but the heat lovers, tomatoes, cucs, peppers, figs, zucs, pumpkins, seem to be hanging on. </div>
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One of the hauls after being away. Not bad!<br />
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All of the ladies are finally laying again, however if this heat continues they might shut down. Lemon cucs, interesting texture.<br />
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I always love coming back to the garden after I have been away, and seeing how much it has changed. Was rewarded with a pretty large harvest. Pictured below is a fraction of the overall haul. Cucumbers are in and TPW makes the best pickles around. Lots of tomatoes from four of the plants, however the others are heavy. Strawberries are everywhere, they never make it into the house, even got a few plums off of the trees. Peppers, both bell and hot, are starting to change color. Avocados are plentiful, looks like my squirrel eradication programis working. Didn't lose many </div>
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Repurposed one of Ed's old ladders. No way that I'm going to trust my life with this old thing, but the beans are climbing all over it! A few of the corn stalks have some pretty good size ears of corn on them. </div>
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All of the pumpkins that I planted from seed look good but they are only putting out male flowers, even with me pinching them off, however the volunteer pumpkins that I have around the garden all have fruit of various sizes.</div>
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The cucs are in, as well as tomatoes, avocados, peaches, figs are a few weeks off, herbs, onions and garlic. It has been in the upper 90's for the past week, not much June gloom here, the weatherman says that it should cool to low 90's next week! TPW has been making pickles with the cucs, pretty tasty. The loquats are gone, I was amazed by how many people said, I love those things but can't find them anywhere. </div>
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This is the chrylsalis of the Giant Swallowtail butterfly that I found on one of our orange trees, see last weeks post. The boys have been taking good care of it, the perfect pet. However, when it comes time to release this guy I think we'll drive him down the road.</div>
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First official week of summer, and the peaches were right on time. The branch has provided us with 20-25 peaches this year. I think having the loquat bloom this year helped us survive the squirrels, as they had plenty of fruit to gorge on. Also the avocados are plentiful, again I think the loquat tree has helped. Lots of herbs to cut everyother day, the basil is my favorite, cucumbers and tomatoes are loving the heat. Strawberries are tasty, need to plant more this winter! Along with the fruits and veggies, we have quite an extensive collection of cactus around the yard, TPW thinks it'a a little to extensive and wants me to down size. Pictured below is one of the night blooming varieties, you can smell it a mile away. </div>
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First few ears of corn had emerged from the corn that the littlest farmer started at school. The sweet one million cherry tomatoes have really kicked it into high gear, the boys have been doing a good job of thinning. Planted 15 different types of tomatoes this year, all seem to be doing well.</div>
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Nest of Allens Hummingbird in the Fuerte Avocado tree. After this picture was taken it took it's first flight.</div>diddenchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03057806353187438911noreply@blogger.com5