What's in Our Grove?

Beautiful day Darlins...

Over the weekend there was a lot of gardening to be done.

So happy for a little rain, 

but you know what follows rain....

Beautiful fruit

&

  weeds!

 I received a lovely email asking me about our grove, did we have any lemons now?

So when I was in the grove gathering some fruit for juices.

I thought I would snap some pics for a little tour...

I

Love this DIY vintage marker we made.

From an old sign, cupola parts, an old gate post.

{You might enjoy my told posts 3/7/12 & 8/4/12}

We designed, graded, put in the irrigation and planted mostly eureka lemons.

They are large, beautiful trees now.

They started out as little twigs wrapped in burlap.

This is a navel orange tree. 

{In addition to the lemons we planted a few personal trees for our family}.

This is a tangerine tree.

See the smaller fruit here on top of the bucket ? They are Meyer lemons. 

We have a Meyer tree too.

Meyer are beautiful for baking, very soft skin. Not good to farm & ship.

We have apples too, these 3 are the first apples on the tree this season.

 About 1 inch in size right now. They have lots of growing to do!

We also have 

 apricot

plum

cumquat

grapefruit

mulberry

Our house sits up on a knoll so this time of year when our doors and windows are open we get infused by the fragrance of the grove.

I wish I could bottle it!

Next week we will be harvesting our first lemons for 2014. 

Hope you enjoyed the quick little tour...

xo,

me