Quince It Came, and How It Went
Quince: Autumn's Brightest (and often, most forgotten) Jewel
When we last left our spring quince tree, she was blushing with buds and fruitful possibilities. It seemed Mother...
Picking Favorites: Great Tomatoes for Puget Sound
Don't let cool summers keep you from growing the season's finest garden treat. Of all the tomatoes I planted this year, here are some my...
Summer Harvest Begs an Extension
Heirloom tomatoes: Amish Paste, White Beauty, Old German, Pineapple, Hillbilly, Lemon Boy and Sugar Lump. If I left these on the vines, October rains...
Peach Tree Report 2009: Update on Leaf Curl Resistant Varieties
White-flesh Charlotte peach, this year's star performer
Greetings fellow peach aficionados. Unfortunately, 2009 was not a bumper year for peaches here at tall clover farm (a pronouncement duly noted...
Words to the Wise: Chip Away, Chip Away
I recoil at the thought of considering that which I love a burden or the things that feed me being a bother. But there...
Setting the Table for Miss Olivia & Friends
Miss Olivia does not regret she's able to lunch today, Madame.
Last Sunday, Miss Olivia came to Vashon for brunch,
Though our activities lead us to...
Violette du Bordeaux Fig or Negronne: Two Names, Same Great Fig
Violette du Bordeaux Fig
I have not quite exhausted my fig fest of love and wish to offer up one more in the August lineup: Violette du Bordeaux...
Peter’s Honey Fig: My New Favorite
Peter's Honey Fig
Peter's Honey Fig is thin-skinned and sweet as candy
Earlier in the week, I waxed on about a fig named Desert King; juicy, prolific, dependable and one...
How to Know When a Fig Is Ripe and Ready to Pick
Knowing when a fig is ripe
There's nothing like a fresh ripe fig and there's nothing like a fresh unripe fig. Ripe delivers a juicy, succulent and...
Desert King Fig: At Home in the Pacific Northwest
Desert King Fig: It's big, green, sweet and easy to grow.
There's nothing like a fresh fig, especially if perfectly ripe and dripping with nectar (see blossom...
