Little Homestead in the City - the Urban Homestead Journal » backyard fruit http://urbanhomestead.org/journal One family's journey towards a sustainable, more self sufficient life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:22:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 FRUIT TIMEhttp://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2009/06/29/fruit-time/ http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2009/06/29/fruit-time/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:57:36 +0000 Anais Dervaes http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/?p=13093 It's fruit season here on the urban homestead!  Our dwarf trees are loaded with fruit.   Coming up next-- apple butter, apricot syrup and peach preserves.....

Oh and the blueberries are ripening as fast as we can pick em.  We picked over 1 lb - which is a lot of little fruit! YUM.

The June gloom seemed to delay our fruit from ripening.  The apricots are 1/2 and 1/2   Though the apricot fruit is slightly green, we ended picking them anyways because, over the weekend, the temperature is supposed to spike into the 90's and we don't want the fruit to crack (some are already slightly cracked)  Besides, there's a pesky little squirrel!

What's fruiting in on your homestead?

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