In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

This is the one and only ‘Babcock’ peach from the tree planted in January. I let one blossom set fruit just for the memories. As a child, I remember eating ‘Babcock’ peaches from my grandparents’ tree in Laguna Beach. They were white with a little red near the center and incredibly juicy.

The description from Trees of Antiquity in Paso Robles, California. sums up the goodness of this low-chill peach. “The Babcock peach tree is an old favorite from Berkeley, California dating back almost hundred years to 1923. The Babcock peach is a white-fleshed freestone, sweet and juicy, aromatic, low acid.”

It’s time to return the apricot recipe file to the drawer after 83 pounds this season. Oranges lingered on the tree this year. Only about a dozen of each remain. But apples await and nectaplums will follow.

An Apricot Mosaic Cake was the last apricot dessert for the season, though I’ve frozen some halves for desserts in late summer, maybe Labor Day.

The first handful of slender ‘Emerite’ pole beans portend the bounty that’s ahead.

I harvested several zucchinis every day and grilled small ones cut in half on the Fourth.

A summer fruit salad for the Fourth of July, here with strawberries and oranges from my garden and blueberries from a neighbor. Summer is underway.

You may enjoy seeing what other garden bloggers harvested last week at Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres.

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