In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen
The crop is small, only about fifteen white peaches on the young Babcock tree. We had the first one yesterday and it tasted just as I remembered them from my grandmother’s tree so many years ago.
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.”
Read Backyard Fruit Recollections. My grandparents’ backyard fruit was a testimony to what can be done on a small city lot. Fruit trees had both ornamental and food value. Artistically arranged, the fruit trees created garden rooms, a sense of mystery and shady hideouts for children.
We ate the last of the apricots over the weekend and brought in the first of the Babcock peaches and nectaplums.
I forgot to snap a photo of the Pear-Apple-Cranberry Crisp before we dashed off to our July Fourth celebration but here are our Dorsett Golden apples with California Bartlett pears and frozen cranberries from Christmas before the crisp topping was added.
A favorite entree during apple season is Cheese Beans from the original Moosewood Cookbook. Chunks of apple join with kidney beans, red onion, diced tomatoes, white wine, chili powder and dry mustard. Cubes of Monterey Jack top the bowls when served.
Carrots and spring onions harvested over a month ago but carefully stored in the fridge made a sweet and savory sauté.
In a corner of one of the raised beds I have six Lollo Rossa lettuces growing in dappled sun. This variety, grown from starts, does well for me in the summer. I still supplement with organic mixed greens for salads but the one above used my spring onions, kumquats and purple carrots.
Hot Cocoa roses, blue delphiniums and feverfew showed up at just the right time for the Fourth of July holiday dinner.
Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I finish planting the warm season 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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