The peaches are getting all kinds of color; they look so good.  The biggest one is the Mid Pride peach, and the small tree full is Rio Grande or something like that.  Those peaches are way smaller; amazing how many set (there had been more, they are gradually dropping off all but about 12) but considering how tiny that tree is, I am surprised any peaches are on it.  As you can see, I have lots of tomatoes too, and the orange one was part of our taco salad tonight; it was perfectly ripe and juicy, it is a Hillbilly and I am glad to say we have lots on the plants!

There, an update wasn't so bad

I hope it is noticed that there is finally a new post, I imagine no one is keeping track now.

sigh, time to update

I should be ashamed of taking so long to update; I have taken pictures, which need to be downloaded again, but I have probably done some updates on the plantings.  I haven't taken any knitting pictures, my hands are acting up and the size 1 and zero needles are hard to hold right now. My DH says to rub the chilis over the joints; we are making lots of Thai dishes today so I might actually give that a try; we are going to do Larb, with chicken, though DH was lobbying for duck, which I have plans for, and a Seafood Rice stick salad, comprising of shrimp, scallops, squid, and who knows what else, and papaya salad.  All spicy.  We bought a great looking hunk of yellowfin tuna yesterday and now we have changed the menu.  So  tomorrow it will be grilled tuna :)  I am good with that.  I love grilled food, and I love Thai.

We have been doing lots of cooking while DH is recuperating from his knee surgery and we are catching up a lot on the garden; we puts in way too much effort on skunk control, they are destructive little beasties; they don't want to go anywhere else as we have an organic garden and they love our earthworms and I am sure there are grubs there too.  He ground up every chili pod we have; the yellow mushroom, the haberneros, the carribeans, and the serranos and who knows what else we are growing, and then spread it all around where the skunks have been digging; they dug up a section of my hop plants, they dug around tomatoes, and then the bean plants and everything else.  It worked last night.  Time will tell.

Let's see if I have any photos to post.

The top picture, if this posts correctly, is of the trees in the planters; the peach-nectarine tree and one of the apricot trees, with the red-vine hop next to it.  the next one is a small peach tree laden with peaches, and next to the green frilly kale which is so good and really productive.  Time for more soup and other dishes for kale.  The bottom is some lettuce and catnip I grew from seed, it is hanging so the cats and other pest can't get into it until I wish it to used.  The lettuce is so bright red, it is hard to fathom.