Granny Smith Apples II

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fruit trees, gardening, granny smith apples, growing food

The other day I blogged a photo of our Granny Smith apples on the tree. They are there no longer. I picked them on Monday, we have about 20 pounds of apples. Pictured is one that I’m eating as I type. This year’s crop is very tasty, tart but not overpoweringly so. I left them on the tree until fully ripe. I gave a bag of them to good friend Anne, I’ll share a couple more bags, use some myself, then they will be gone until next year.

Tomatoes From Our Garden

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food production, gardening, tomato plant

Some tomatoes from our garden. We’ve been getting ripe tomatoes every few days. These are wonderful, much better than a store bought tomato!

Tomato Plant Update

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food production, gardening, tomato plant

Tomato Plant

This tomato plant is doing well, there are lots of tomatos. Two of them are starting to ripen.  I’ve had many leaves turn yellow, I cut them away and added some mulch to the container. My other tomato plant has produced one ripe tomato this week!  It was wonderful, quite different from a store bought tomato.

Tomato Plants

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food production, gardening, tomatoes

Tomato plants growing. You can see a few tomatoes on the plants. We’ve had quite a bit of monsoon rainfall in Prescott Az over the last week and the tomatoes have benefited. I like the idea of producing some of our food. A few edible plants are a good start.

Crop Failure

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crop failure, gardening, tomato plant

Crop Failure, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

Crop Failure. My tomato plant has perished. And there was a tomato starting to grow. Very sad.

I planted two new ones. I hope they live and produce good tomatoes. We will see.