All The Fruit I'll Never Eat And One I Will

The blackberries have done well this year with all the rain.

They used to line our road, huge fines with giant berries

that you could fill your freezer with after making jelly or sorbet.

Then the developer sprayed them! 

I suppose that they were trying to clean up the lots so they 

were more attractive, not thinking that anyone moving

out in this area would probably rather have the berries than

a manicured lawn.  They just never recovered.

Some started popping up in our yards and this year was a good one.

Except. . .  I can't eat seeds anymore and all the cute and adorable

animals I love to watch plus the birds that visit me on the porch

all love blackberries.  We were not proactive enough

to pick and freeze until we had enough so I'll not eat these.

The peaches are plentiful this year as well, small but nice.

The fronts are nice and peachy color but the backs are green.

With this couple days of hot weather they are getting nicer 

but like last year I know I'll walk out one morning and find

the tree bare!  One night branches are hanging heavy with 

fruit, the next day- nothing.  Will I get to eat these?  Maybe

but not keeping my hopes up.  With my leg and foot still acting

up I am not walking up to the tree much so the deer and raccoon

will likely get these too.

Here's another little bunch of berries at the wood line.

The ones I planted are doing well too and next year should

be producing more and better. 

I also have to get a mate for my elderberry.  

I am looking for a Wyldwood for my Bob Gordon.

I did get a couple of my plums but they mostly had worms.

I don't want to spray them since the bees were all over it

this year, hundreds of large down to teeny tiny ones you could

barely see along with strange fluffy flies and the moths

that probably laid the worm eggs.

I did get to taste my fig!

It was overly ripe, sweet and gooey.

I can't really eat it due to the seeds

(I know, why do I plant seedy things when I can't eat seeds?).

Do you see the baby fig above and to the left of the ripe one?