Five Figs and Five Hibaku Seedlings

Spent part of the day taking down the summer garden, and preparing rows for this year’s garlic, shallots and leeks, while gathering and snacking on stray fruits and vegetables – a few tomatoes here, a tomatillo there, a bit of a cucumber, and these figs:

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I plan to broil them on toast, topped with some delicious cheese.  The pomegranate tree really put in a good effort this season, producing three or four market-sized fruits.  I’ve got about a dozen other pomegranates around, some in the first and second food forest plots, some in the garden proper.  In six or seven years I hope to be bathing daily in pomegranate juice.

In other news, all five of the hibaku (A-bombed trees – you can read about them here) seedlings lived through the summer.  Three are hackberry, two gingko, and all will eventually be planted out in the forest.

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Fall really arrived in a definitive way this year, and so I’m hurrying to get all of the end-of-season chores done before the weather turns wet and cold.  Steve the chimney sweep is quite sure that this will be an epic winter, and I have no reason to doubt him!

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