Is today really the last day of August?  Where has the summer gone?   

Up at 5:30 and out the door at 6. But not before spraying our lavender oil all over myself to keep the black flies away. Did you know lavender oil is a natural insect repellent?

Did you know lavender oil is a natural insect repellent? First thing I do every morning is apply it to ward off the bees, wasps and all the other pollinators that get up early to work in the garden with me.

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My favorite apple…..

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Our Floriano apple tree is loaded with beauties like this! The net keeps the birds and the fox from eating them all.

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And the best year yet for our pomegranates….

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Gorgeous!

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Fragolina table grapes are coming on fast..

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Plum tomatoes for sauce

Dehydrating zucchini flowers

I’m dehydrating zucchini flowers…

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….and lacto fermenting eggplant and yellow beans

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One of the many salad tomato varieties we’re growing this year

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After harvesting we leave tomatoes for a day or two in the sun

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This grape loaded pergola provides much needed shade on a hot morning

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Dill for making pickles

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Yellow pear tomato

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The golden konig is my favorite this year

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Zucchini flowers

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Grapes on the dome of a pergola in the orto

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Malva and chamomile growing together for herbal tea

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Purple okra and their amazing flower

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Dehydrating figs

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Pears and apples are just starting to come on

Petraia pear

Petraia pear

 

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Washing tomatoes. I’m making tomato water with these beauties

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Nightshades…

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Cosmos

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Yellow beans

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Fragolina grapes

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Loaded plum tomato plants

 

 

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