The last tomatoes of 2024

Tomatoes, garlic, peppers, parsley, oregano, basil and the several yardlong beans you see in the photo all came from my garden.

Books I read over the last year

 

First figs

 After three years, I had a small fig harvest. I have three fig plants that I planted in my yard. The one that is three years old produced ten delicious figs, five are shown below. I have a one-year old fig that I grew from a cutting, but it only produced a few figs and they are unlikely to ripen before its gets cold. My third fig in the ground is the largest, and it too is at least three years old. It is the tallest, over six feet, but it did not produce figs this year likely because it doesn't get enough sunlight. It is about time to winterize the figs so that they won't die back. All of these figs are the Chicago Hardy variety.