#fall bouquets

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Some of my favorite foods and favorite views of the season 🍁🍂🍃

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Fall Bouquet

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Fall Flowers & Pumpkins

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In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

The second harvest of Dorsett Golden apples begins. The first is typically late June and is the larger crop. The fall apples are usually smaller and the yield is only ten to fifteen pounds. Most of these will be for fall desserts and perhaps some applesauce.

The sixteen year old tree is espaliered to a length of about ten feet and screens the compost bins. We recall three mature Baldwin and McIntosh apple trees in our Massachusetts yard that yielded bushels and bushels of apples.

Small cuttings of arugula started last week. Cabbage moths are still frequent garden visitors so this year I have row cover over the patch.

For now, the garden is mostly future promise: broccoli, snow peas, beets, kale, cauliflower, celery, carrots, sweet peas, lettuce, artichokes and strawberries.

The Queen Red Lime zinnias are almost three feet high and attract various butterflies, skippers, and other pollinators. They’re blocking the young sweet peas as they seek the trellis but I can’t bear to remove them in their late season prime.

My solution—take out half to make room for more lettuce and make bouquets. The older blooms are in a bouquet on the patio and will be composted in a few days. Nonetheless, from a distance they cheer me. The second bouquet is on the kitchen island.

Autumn’s garden song in color. The Sunday church bouquet.

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I transplant and sow seeds for the cool season garden.

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Autumn Wedding Bouquets by Posies & Pearls

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In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Recent planting of the cool season garden means harvests are few. Peppers and arugula linger and lettuce plants offer a few outer leaves for sandwiches. But often in these times fruit takes center stage. The Bearss limes were the smallest of the fruit harvests last week.

Fruit and flowers often come together in my kitchen. My grandmother’s antique glass vase and my flowers. Her rose pattern plate and my limes. Simple pleasures.

The first few of the ‘Dorsett Golden’ apples were ready. In the next week or two we’ll harvest most of them. Hoping that will be after the strawberry guavas finish. We sensed that the crop was diminished. A night visiting opossum was the culprit and now the tree is draped with a sturdy row cover.

A day’s yield of strawberry guavas after shaking the tree. On another take from my grandmother, with the puree I made strawberry guava tapioca with a hint of almond flavoring.

And once again, my grandmother’s plate with late season, day-neutral ‘Seascape’ strawberries.

I’m picking the ‘Red Beauty’ peppers when green to hurry along the crop. Lettuce and greens will supplant them. These ample peppers were stuffed. I like the recipe’s method: 1) Brush prepped halves cut top to bottom with oil and broil on high in a cast iron skillet. 2) Set aside while you saute vegetables in the cast iron skillet to be added to the meat (or not) and cooked grains in a separate bowl.. 3) Assemble pepper halves and return to skillet to reheat covered until brought to serving temperature.

Here’s The Backyard Farm Company’s (@thebackyardfarmco) take on growing peppers; Peppers are always (fashionably) late to the party. Especially large bell peppers, roasting peppers, and some of the hot chiles. They take their sweet (or spicy) time turning red, craving as many hot sunny days as possible—and in our cooler coastal climate, that means they take longer. They arrive on the scene halfway through the night when the other summer party goers are beginning to tire. But for a few glorious weeks everyone is together.

And in the miscellany category, I will try microwave drying of basil tomorrow. The Tuscan kale obliges and holds well in the fridge—this picked about three weeks ago when I removed the plant. The small tool makes for quick prep.

You may enjoy seeing what other garden bloggers harvested last week at Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres.

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November and Thanksgiving Bouquets

Most of us don’t have time today for a serious read so I’m posting photos of some of my November and Thanksgiving bouquets. Most of the bouquets gather bits of this and that from the late fall garden. View and marvel in the glory of fall blooms.

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"Cut flower education" Had to run some errands and ran into this place to get some groceries... how cute is the flower shop in this little store?!!