It’s so nice that the Farmers’ Market is now open three times a week. They’ve been having a few strawberries but you have to be there when they open if you want them. Today we went, got there just before they opened and the lines had already formed at the vendors who had strawberries so Vince went to one, I went to the other and we were each able to get two cartons of strawberries.
The strawberries are so good! I could really eat an entire carton by myself.
Saturday we pick up our first CSA box. I’m pretty excited about that.
This afternoon a neighbor down the road told me she had started some tomatoes from seeds in her greenhouse and the plants were getting large enough to transplant and she offered to share so I went and picked up four tomatoes. I took her a jar of plum jelly that I’d made from our plum trees in Texas. I’m going to be sad when the plum jelly and peach jam are all gone but . . I’m happy to be here. Vince is going to plant a couple of plum trees . . I think. Addie keeps asking for plum trees. She really did love sitting on that ladder picking and eating the plums.
vivoaks says
What is a CSA box? I’m still getting all your emails at once in the evening, so if it was mentioned earlier I haven’t read it yet. I was on the site where the blogs I follow are, and yours is listed as (receive as) individual. I set it to daily, then back to individual, but have been getting them this way since I had to re-sign to get your blog after the trouble you had with it. Wish I knew how to change it back so it works.
Judy Laquidara says
CSA – Community supported agriculture. Folks buy “shares” in the farm and get a box of veggies every week or two weeks. We get ours every week through about September.
If I could help you, I would but you know I know nothing about it.
Jeri Niksich says
We planted a couple of plum trees over the past couple of years, the last one was about half dead but it came to life then I was afraid the freeze might have gotten them but nope. Funny thing is the last half dead one bloomed out with leaves and two little premature plums before the older tree even started with blooms for leaves. Is this normal? Any guesses on how long before we can hope for actual plums we can eat?
Jeri in Corpus
Judy Laquidara says
Vince and I were talking about that today. He was thinking the peach trees produced more than the plum trees (comparing one tree to one tree) but we had three plums that were prolific and three or four that were not so prolific. I think we planted the peach trees when we first got there and it was a couple of years before we planted the plum trees. I wish I could remember or could find my notes but I’m thinking it was when Vince and I were in MO for Addie’s kindergarten graduation, which would have been 2019, and a neighbor picked about a truckload of plums off our trees. She ate what they wanted, gave away some, and put the rest in freezer bags and stuck them in my freezer. I think prior to that year, we got a few here and there but never a bumper crop. I’m thinking we planted those in 2013 so I’d say after five years for sure – maybe sooner.
We planted apricot trees (three) in 2012 and got ONE apricot in all those years. I bet, since we left, there will be tons of apricots this year! 🙂
Rebecca says
I can’t really share Addie’s enthusiasm for plums off the tree…I think I must have eaten too many green ones when I was little. I do like ripe ones, but not as much as other fruits.