In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Navel orange season has arrived and they are sweet and bright orange. Cold weather brings both. Our crop is smaller than the bonus yield last year. The 35 year old tree is healthy but can have an off year. My husband keeps it lightly pruned for better air circulation and to maintain the manageable size.

We begin the season of fresh squeezed orange juice most mornings for breakfast.

Orange marmalade, sweetened over dried orange slices and other seasonal favorites ahead.

We pick tangerines for lunch frequently. Like the navel oranges, the crop is smaller. Perhaps this is due to the lack of rain last winter when blossom and fruit set occurred. October to April we only had about four inches of rain.

A few kumquats harvested recently set off an arugula salad.

Happily growing in our alley amidst the weeds and after over eight inches of rain, native lupines.

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I continue to plant and succession sow in the cool season garden.

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