Mine is also a Desert King! 
Unfortunately, if the summer is going to be as gloomy as the spring, the fruit will shrivel and fall off without ripening. Fingers crossed!
For some reason I killed one Dessert King, but my favorite is Peterâs Honey. This is just one branch of the tree in the ground. Fortunately I bough a few of this variety, I forgot I already have them and thatâs why.
My nectarine Red Atomic, not only it has pretty flowers in Spring, itâs loaded with fruit in the summer
Due to space limitation, I bought 4x1 plum tree, I think so far Iâve seen Shiro, Satsuma, and Santa Rosa
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Everyoneâs fruit trees look LOADED with fruit - jealous!
I know that fruit trees can be a mess but oh, that fruit!
We had sour cherry trees growing up and I have fond memories of picking them for my mom to clean and freeze for pies. My brother always loved that he was allowed to go on the garage roof to pick the upper branches! (What was my mom thinking?!!)
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Picked the first fig of the season yesterday. Biggest one weâve ever harvested. 64 grams! It was delicious.
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Picked my first official garden item besides herbs today, some radishes. They were beautiful red round beauties! Came home and add them with some homemade ranch dip and then I made radish pesto out of the greens.
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Very nice! My radish seeds sprouted but the plants are still small. Iâve been wondering⊠how do you know when to harvest? I donât have many so want to avoid pulling too soon to check.
You will know because the radish will be nearly grown out of the ground! Youâll see most of the radish above the ground.
Often important to thin out radish so that they can have room to fatten up. The best way to thin them out is to just snip the ones you donât want. Donât pull them out
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My Daikon all went to seed!! Bwaaa⊠
the regular radishes seem to be ok. I harvested a couple of bunches.
I picked some jalapeño peppers today to go with my hotdogs, I donât eat a lot of hot peppers but I have 25 plants, what on earth was I thinking, lol.
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Ha thatâs a lot of pepper plants. Maybe check if your area has a dropoff for Grow-a-row (or similar program for growing/donating fresh produce to local non-profits and food banks). I bought plants for our church giving garden, and my instructions were âthe hotter the betterâ, since those are popular in our donation places (many hispanics in the area).
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They donât take vegetables here, but I will bring some to people at my mahjong or bridge club.
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There is no food bank???
There is a food bank but they donât take perishable food.
I make lots of pepper jams. You could do a peach jalapeno jam with your extra peppers.I just started hardening off my hot pepper plants (I have jalapeños, ghost pepper, red flames, scorpions, and Carolina reaper) and am going to put them outside permanently next week. Theyâve been growing under grow lights and I use heating mats. Glad that they are finally going outside.
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What do you do with the jams? Last year I made pesto and threw them away. I decided this year I will only do dill pickles and bread and butter, stuff we really eat regularly.
Savory jams are delicious on toasted bread, spread on a BLT, as a simple appetizer spooned over cream cheese or mascarpone or ricotta with crackersâŠ
For sure, if you wonât eat it donât make it (like the pesto). Or give as gifts.
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We probably eat something like that once a year, most likely around Christmas time.
I have friends who own a general store/restaurant (in a small town)âthey sell the jams for me. I sold all that I made the first year; we havenât grown hot peppers or made jams to sell for the last two years because of covid.The store was closed and just did take out and then had an outdoor restaurant. I also give the jams away to friends. Iâll sell the jams in the store again this fall.
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I like to eat fresh peaches, if I make the jams, I basically throw away my peaches, I rarely eat hot peppers anyway. But next week, I will harvest them and give to people in my mahjong club. Last week I picked a bunch of roses and gave to the front desk, they were so happy. I have about 160 roses for my small urban/suburban lot, so I do have a lot of roses to cut and give away.
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I love a smear of pepper jelly on a breakfast sandwich. Bacon, cheesy scrambled eggs & pepper jelly on a biscuit = delicious!
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