In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen
When my green beans come in they come! I’ve extolled the virtues of Emerite pole beans before. The abundance is shared with neighbors and I peruse my green beans recipe folder for new ways to use them.
Refrigerator Dilly Green Beans was easy and quick as we dealt with 65 pounds of nectaplums late in the week.
This is some of the haul as we stripped the two trees. Though a luscious fruit, they are fragile and losses occur when kept at room temperature very long. Neighbors receive the nectaplums readily and I delivered about 40 pounds over the weekend.
Last night I found myself making a crostata at 8 p.m. with fruit that would not survive until morning and the fridge was full. Thankfully, my husband prepped the nectaplums and there was a premade piecrust in the freezer.
And that was after an afternoon of making nectaplum-raspberry jam. I made the first batch as a trial to freeze and refrigerate and the second I processed.
I’m thankful we have a respite from apricots, apples and nectaplums before the strawberry guavas ripen late next month. The freezer is full of sauces, fruit puree for homemade ice cream and various other delights to preserve the goodness.
And the promising marionberry crop was very good until it wasn’t. Winter rains may have produced a large crop but after a few weeks the botrytis fungus won out following a spate of overcast, dank days.
And Sunday’s church entry bouquet: grevillea, leucadendron, gomphrena, eleagnus and pennisetum.
For the remainder of August, I’ll generally be posting on Mondays and Thursdays instead of the usual M-W-F routine. Enjoy the waning summer days (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere)!
Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I add to the summer garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.
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