Kerry’s Garden

This week is my well earned vacation week. We aren’t going anywhere this week but I am using it to catch up on some projects.
Today I cleaned out the raspberry beds, cutting one to the ground and the other to about 12-18 inches high. They are just starting to wake up. I [...]

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This was the second ripe fruit of the season. There is some thought that this may be a petite negri. Any fig people out there have any thoughts on that?

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As I have stated in previous posts, a couple of years ago I purchased two figs from two different places. Both were labeled as Brown Turkey figs. Neither had fruit at the time and one didn’t have any leaves so I had no reason to believe that they were anything but what they [...]

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Behold…the first ripe fig of the season. Any fig experts out there? Is this a brown turkey?

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I had a friend come over and pick raspberries on Thursday morning. On Friday morning I picked and ended up with about 6 cups. I picked this morning and now have a gallon of berries waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Half will probably be frozen and [...]

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Last week I had picked up 5 large peaches from Jungle Jim’s. They were huge and not quite ripe. My plan was to make a peach cobbler (or two) but since the kid had a b’day on Friday and we have more goodies than we can eat around here from that I decided [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I went to get something out of the almost 20 year old chest freezer for dinner. As soon as I opened the lid it collapsed and a bunch of water poured out. What I had not realized was that the small cracks that had developed on the underside [...]

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