Beginner Gardening: Show Us Your Harvests!, 1 by telosphilos

telosphilos wrote:
This has been a fun year. I got my first fruits off a fruit tree in our little backyard orchard. Four little bitty plums grew well enough to eat on our Santa Rosa tree. They were fantastic.

I also got some raspberries and blackberries in early summer. We even had a couple grapes on our year and a half old grape vine. The grape is growing like mad and I have to keep pruning it back to keep it from taking over.

I've also gotten basil and New Mexico peppers from the container section of my garden. The peppers are remarkably small, all of two inches typically, instead of the six inch peppers we are used to buying. Only the cherry tomatoes really have produced yet too.

Catterpilers got the rest of the herbs and most of the tomatoes. Darn things. I caught as many as I could spot and tossed them in the compost heap where a squash is going nuts because I haven't turned it often enough.