Grow Your Fruit and Eat It Too

This has turned out to be a particularly good midyear. I have contemplated at times what it means to be rich. One element certainly is being able to pick your own tree or vine-ripened produce.

May started with my early peach crop. This was followed immediately by the apricots, and then midyear peaches. July was a plum-fest. My later-blooming fruit trees (August Pride and Rubidoux peaches) are not old enough to bear fruit yet. But that’s okay.

Despite the coolest summer in memory the tomatoes have finally arrived. I don’t care how wealthy you are; if you can pick your own vine-ripened tomatoes, have a salt shaker in hand, and can sit in the garden eating them on a hot, sunny day; you’re rich.

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