weekend work...

The weekend started out great on Saturday with the Strawberry Jam at Suzie's Farm, one of our local community supported agriculture groups here in San Diego.  There, we learned how to make strawberry wine, strawberry kombucha, green strawberry pickles and of course, strawberry jam.

For those of you in the San Diego area, be sure to check out their schedule of events this summer!  Nearby Wild Willow Farm has a lot of great events too and you'll find us at one or the other about once every month if not more during the spring through fall.  We had a great time listening to music, learning, eating great food and touring the farm.  And of course, we couldn't leave without oh 10 pounds of strawberries or so.  More on that in a little bit.  But first, the garden is looking great.  The pest detail has really paid off and the new tomatoes, eggplant, tomatillos and sweet peppers are doing very well.

cherry tomatoes and strawberry basket on the patio

Garden looking good

microgreens, sweet potatoes and oat grass

cherry tomatoes on the patio

pumpkins on the way

summer squash

tomatillos about to bloom

Out back of the property, the buddha hand citron is putting out huge beautiful blossoms which will later be big fragrant fruit.

buddha hand citron blossoms

We also received a visit from our good friend Bethany at Wytchwood Farms with gifts for trade.  For a couple jars of fresh strawberry jam, we received raspberry and boysenberry canes and some beautiful glass gem popcorn (not yet on the cob but here's what it looks like)

blackberries doing well

raspberries a little sad but will perk up

glass gem popcorn

So excited for both of these new additions!  As for the bug control, the nightly bug quests are working.  Tonight I found only 3 weevils in the entire garden.  That is a major victory, and if the neem oil did its job correctly, there should be no new weevil larvae this year.

Remember that 10 pounds of strawberries I mentioned?  Well, we still have 3 pies and about 12 jars of strawberry jam if you'd like to come say hi and pay the garden a visit.  Better hurry though, they aren't going to last.

strawberry pie anyone?

jam and pie, berry delicious