Another big harvest of citrus, fresh OJ for the family this week, as well as plenty of lemons, limes, and grapefruit. The tangelos are flowing right now, the little guys can't get enough of them, sadly we did not have a very big blood orange harvest this year. Ate the last one today. The weather lady is saying that we may get some rain on Tuesday, it would help as we are 5.06 inches since July 2011. Other than that things are moving along smoothly here on the farm, the chickens have decided that laying their eggs in the coup is better than the bushes, thank god for that, makes collecting them easier.
Still getting lots of greens and radishes, the turnips are getting bigger, but I still think that we are a few weeks away. 
TPW made a great egg and chard dish, a pretty colorful display of the stems as well as the leaves. 
Your citrus post makes me cringe. My poor citrus trees are not well at all and I coddle them. :-( UGH. Oh well. Time to look for replacements. Your harvest is lovely.
ReplyDeleteIs that the Rainbow Chard pictured in the bottom picture? I love the colors. I have been giving a little thought to planting some, because I like the stem colors so much. I am not much of a green eater (other than turnip greens), though, so I have been resisting so far.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
Beautiful harvest. I so wish I could grow citrus. Too bad there isn't a hardy orange tree. Of course there couldn't be since they give fruit over the winter.
ReplyDeleteOur Valencias look like they still need another month on the tree. Do you think its because you get more heat? Wish we had some of that tasty juice this morning.
ReplyDeletelove your citrus and the colorful chard is always such fun, in the garden and in the kitchen. One year it grew all summer and the leaves were huge. I took to carefully removing the leaf from the stem, dipping the leaves in hot, nearly boiling water for a few seconds to make them soft. Then I would make up mixes of meat with onions, garlic, herbs, the chopped stems, et. and rolling it up in the leaves like cabbage rolls.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful citrus. Hopefully you will get a great blood orange harvest next season. Chard are so colorful.
ReplyDeletebeautiful chard. we have a grapefruit that gave a lot of terrible fruit this year and last. It was never taken care of so the fruit it terrible. some day we need to get a specialist out here to see if we can figure out what is wrong.
ReplyDeleteThat chard looks beautiful!!!
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