In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Our nectaplum harvest is much lighter this year, perhaps 25-35 pounds instead of the more typical 75-100 pounds in recent years. Likely the chill hours were insufficient and our rainfall was substantially less than normal. Our two trees get lawn water but other nectaplums in the neighborhood have almost no fruit and the leaves are shriveled. Read more about nectaplums in this previous post.

I couldn’t pass up the coherence of color—the nectaplums and red-flowered buckwheat, a California native blooming in my garden now. Unlike the nectaplum it requires little summer water and self-sows politely.

Here are some of my Yukon Gem potatoes that became a traditional potato salad. Several times a week we’re enjoying some of the 12 pound harvest.

Off-blooms from the navel orange tree provide occasional morning orange juice.

Some of the larger Dorsett Golden apples from a recent harvest became an apple crisp.

Lavender Dream roses, alstroemerias, cuphea, and Queen Anne’s lace came together for the church entry bouquet.

My next post. will be In my garden, mid-July for a look at what’s growing and what’s coming. Until then.