Category: Fruit

Plum Silly!

Plum Silly!

| June 12, 2012 | 9 Replies

About this time every year, I get plum silly! I start glancing out the upstairs bathroom window to see if the plums on the plum tree are getting ripe. When Mr. Gerber’s little one-story house was next door, our plum tree, just our side of the property line, spread way over his picket fence and bore […]

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Memorial Day Garden Questions!

Memorial Day Garden Questions!

| May 28, 2012 | 2 Replies

Oh, it’s blissfully quiet on my street! Except for aircraft (jets high, coming in to LAX south of here, small planes going up and down the coast, occasional helicopters heading over the mountain), I don’t hear a thing! Not even the incessant barking of the dog at the end of the street. No drone of […]

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Zucchini & Berry Harvest!

Zucchini & Berry Harvest!

| May 22, 2012 | 6 Replies

For the first-time urban gardener, like me, harvesting my first dozen zucchini is a glorious thing! So, for the one month anniversary of Earth Day and the premiere of “Late Bloomer,” I present my zucchini. I handed a green one, plus two long stems of oregano, to a passing neighbor. We ate the big yellow […]

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