Harvest Time at Go Away Farm

Saturday, Mikki and me finally got to pick the much awaited peaches (three years since planting and babying). We also pulled potatoes, picked Sweet 100 tomatoes, purple hull peas, and some cucumbers. Bounty harvest! There is just something about working in the dirt and watching a crop produce before your eyes. I never cease to be amazed! What beauty. What miracles! 

Me, overweight with my peaches. We culled 373 peaches at the beginning of the season, and then let 30 be eaten by the birds, and picked 37 Saturday to share with friends and family. There are 157 to be picked Wednesday! Three young, small trees. 

Beautiful fruit. Some of the sweetest I've ever tasted, of course. No really!

9lbs of beautiful peaches.

Red potatoes.

We got 57.5 lbs of potatoes off of one short row. 

And then, we got this baby. Looks sort of like a cow's head. 

6.5 lbs of Purple Hull Peas, 11.5 lbs of Sweet 100 Tomatoes

This is not the best photo I've ever taken on my phone, but I wanted to capture the height of the Sweet 100 tomatoe plants. They tower above me. They are huge! 

Summertime

It's that wonderful time when all the vegetables and fruit start to ripen. The days are very hot and the evenings are mild (as in mildly warm). But it is very pretty right now. 

Champanelle table-grapes growing very well. This is our third season and our first to allow the grapes to mature. 

Very happy with our peach crop. Here just a few weeks ago, I pinched off 373 peaches from the trees so we'd have one peach every 6-8 inches of limb. They are beauties if the bugs and birds don't beat us to them. This is our first season to allow the peaches to mature. We planted the trees November of 2007.

The pears are coming along very nicely. This is also their first season. 

Another image of the Champanelle grapes. 

Memorial Day at the farm.

I like this shot. But we need a longer rope on the bell for two reasons. That way, you aren't deaf after you ring it, and you have some running room when the yellow-jacket's chase you away.

Mik's garden is beautiful. We brought home a back-seat full of produce to give away today. She canned pickles and blackberry jam today. WooHoo! 

The vine is tenacious stuff, but I love the way it looks on the cedar. We'd better like it:-)