From our own garden!

It's been the warmest summer in a long time here in Sandnes and our yard is producing like it never has before. Not much when compared to the things Dad can grow at the Farm, but for Sandnes this is big news!


These small gems are apricots. We've had the tree for years and always get some small fruit in the spring, but it always falls off long before it gets ripe. This year we had 6 - 7 apricots, and boy were they sweet.


Here are tomato plants. It may not look like much, but tomatos grown outside a greenhouse don't usually give much produce. There are loads there, and even if they're not the huge beef tomatos, they taste great.


The wild blueberries were great this year and the berries in our yard did even better. These are the big "american" blueberries like Dad has in MN.


Golden raspberries. These were growing wild close to our property when we bought it. We have managed to save a few plants and this year they finally gave some nice berries.


Here are red currants. No big deal that there's lots of these, as we have loads every year, but still it looks nice :) This year we made 21 bottles of red currant juice concentrate. That should last us a year.


Last but not least are the plums. We also enjoy lots of plums every year. We have 5 different trees that ripen at different times se we have fresh plums for over a month.

Besides all this we have apples fast ripening and even a few pears. But no pictures of that - yet.

-Reb