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Happy #figfriday! The fig I’m most looking forward to tasting this year is Roberts Golden Rainbow, formerly known as Ben’s Golden Riverside. It is very close to being ready to pick so I’ve moved it to the greenhouse in hopes the birds don’t find it. 🤞🏼My September fig update was posted this week if you want to see how the rest are doing.

Finally got around to removing some corn kernels from last years harvest that has been living room decor for the past year. Maybe next year I’ll get around to grinding it into flour. I’m not sure what variety this is but it’s a beautiful blue green color. The neighbor shared an ear with us a couple years ago and I grew some of the seeds saved from it and it turned out just like the original. Still have a bunch more of last seasons corn to process. It’s a good activity to do while watching football on Sunday.

First poblano of the season. These are taking forever to ripen. Picked two so far and still a few green ones left to ripen. @chillichump is doing a biggest poblano contest and am hoping to enter one by the Nov 1st deadline. I didn’t think this one was big enough to enter but I weighed it anyway with our @timemorecoffee scale.

Happy #tomatotuesday! Enjoying the abundance of Juliet tomatoes. I have made one batch of tomato sauce already. I’d like to maybe some fermented salsa with the next harvest.

Isn’t this dahlia just a little ray of sunshine? It’s one of the dahlias I grew from seeds I got from @mykitsaproots. It’s my absolute favorite!

I’ve been planting bush beans in the area I grow the garlic and it usually works out pretty well. The timing is just right and we get a harvest of fresh snap beans just before it gets too wet and cold. It was a little over two months ago that they were planted and yesterday was our first harvest. The blue lake and top crop from seed swaps both are producing well and have a lot more to give.

Happy #figfriday! Another ripe fig picked a few days ago but waited till today to share it. This one is known as Brandon Street Unknown. Wasn’t super impressed. It’s pretty small, not that sweet or juicy. Seeds were quite crunchy too.

Look who decided to show some stripes! This is an F2 of an accidental cross of aji tangerine and sugar rush stripe. It crossed in our greenhouse and a local friend grew out some aji tangerine seeds I sent her that came out striped so she sent me seeds from it and I grew them this year. We will definitely keep this variety going!

In the photo I posted yesterday I called these chocolate cherry and only one person caught my mistake. These are in fact chocolate pear, not cherry. They were my second favorite cherry tomato this year and I’ll definitely grow them again. Thanks to @carmelbellafarm for the seeds and to @realhensofoc for the weissbehaarte seeds which I also really liked this year.

Happy #tomatotuesday! The rains have started to arrive in Western Washington so today was a big pick all the tomatoes day. It's not to the point yet where I'm picking green tomatoes or tomatoes that are just starting to turn. Once I start seeing signs of late blight then it's all hands on pick all the things but we aren't there just yet. I only picked the ripe ones or nearly ripe ones. I see some sauce making in the near future. I could use some cuz we’re pretty much out of canned tomatoes.

Got some potato harvesting done today. Potatoes are one of my favorite things to harvest and eat. The first pile are called masquerade which was from 3 potatoes saved from last year’s harvest and the others were from 4 red potatoes we picked up at a local farm supply store in the spring called chieftain. Not a bad harvest. Still have satina and some potatoes grown from seeds to harvest.

We got our first main crop fig of the season today. Main crop figs are those figs the form on the new growth while the breba figs form on old growth. This variety is called Nero600M and this is only its second year. It’s loaded with fruit for such a young container grown fig.

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