22 Trees: Harvest Monday 1/30

Another Monday Harvest, last one of the month. Well as you can see from the picture below the beer bush is doing pretty well. This was my harvest on Friday, I was wondering when the beer was going to be ready to pick? We have a lot of avocados on the tree, the trick is getting the rotation right, having just enough ripe avocados on the counter and enough back up to get us through the week. Planted another new tree, I might have to change the name of the blog. A Variegated Eureka Lemon tree, aka Pink Lemonade, out front, should get plenty of heat this summer.

One of the ladies had not been laying, at least we thought. When we did not find eggs from the youngest farmers chicken we just figured it was getting ready to molt. Well this weekend I was walking through the orchard and came across 2 eggs in the path. I figured that Maggie had decided to move the eggs around, which she has done before, she can pick them up and run around the yard and deliver them to me with out a scratch on them. Not this time, I discovered the cache, 15 eggs strong. We tested all of them and not a floater among the lot.

I think that I planted too much lettuce. I have been getting at least a bowl a day, and you can't even tell. Lots of radish, and spinach, turnip's not far off. Lots of citrus, not pictured, I have a big bag of lemons, navel oranges, grapefruit, and mandarin waiting to be delivered to friends.

A little introduction.

We moved in on December 18th 2009, we are a 1/4 mile from a major southern california freeway, but are trying to make the urban homestead thing work. We have spent a lot of time getting things back in order. We have 22 fruit trees, hence the name, and a small plot set aside for a garden. We have 4 chickens: 2 Americauna, 1 Jersey Giant, 1 Barred Rock, and one 8 month old puppy named Maggie. With the help of the boys, and my very patient wife, I am trying to farm this little plot of land. We'll see...

11 comments:

UnknownJanuary 29, 2012 at 9:37 PM
I had a Pacifico today. And yesterday. And the day before that. I could use a lime or six.
kitsapFGJanuary 30, 2012 at 6:17 AM
Your citrus always impresses me. The greens are lovely too. Glad you found the hens egg cache. She obviously prefers that location for nesting.
Barbie~January 30, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Fantastic! Glad you found the lot, and that none of them were bad.
Norma ChangJanuary 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM
You have too much lettuce and we have none, but the days are getting longer, spring is around the corner and pretty soon we will be able to get some seeds in the ground.
Stoney AcresJanuary 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Can you ever really have too much lettuce? We can't grow lettuce this time of year it's just to cold. It will be at least another 6 weeks before we are able to plant lettuce outside again.
JennieJanuary 30, 2012 at 8:05 PM
Is it not funny how the girls (chickens) will just decide to change where they lay and begin to brood? Silly girls. I wish we had an avocado tree.
Mary HysongFebruary 1, 2012 at 4:45 AM
Lovely harvest, I know lots of folks that would be interested in that beer tree! Glad you found the eggs before they went bad, that would be a powerful stink! Of course your girls would like the lettuce if you really have too much....
Lynn's Urban Garden DiaryFebruary 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM
What a great find! (the 15 eggs) Sneaky girl, she is! lol!!! Harvest looks awesome.

Lynn
diddencFebruary 1, 2012 at 7:58 PM
Boiled some of the eggs, fried the rest up. They all tasted excellent. We've been watching her pretty close the last few days to make sure that we know where she has been.
Seeds and ShovelsFebruary 4, 2012 at 8:45 PM
How long hve you had your avocado tree? I heard they take some 15 years to produce decent fruit.
diddencFebruary 5, 2012 at 8:48 PM
We moved into a house with a mature orchard and 3 mature avocado trees. I think that they need at least 5 years before they will start to put out fruit.