It’s almost stone fruit season in California!! My local farmers market was selling the very first batch of peaches last weekend, which means they’re coooming!

Can’t explain how excited this gets me. If you haven’t tasted a fresh pluot or some of the huge variety of hybrid stone fruit, you’re missing out on one of life’s greatest pleasures. They’re colorful, they’re sweet, they’re subtly sour, they’re juicy, and they have the most satisfying crunch. There’s so much variety, and some amazing genetic combos. You ever had a peach that looks like a green apple on the outside and is the color of a beet on the inside? Well that’s my most favorite goddamn fruit on the planet. Fuuck I’m getting too excited…

At the peak of stone fruit season, sometimes I’ll just chop up a bunch of different kinds of pluots and that’s my meal for the day. Not kidding. When I first moved here, this shit changed my life. Best fruit I’ve ever tasted.

off the top of my head the ones that we grow and are fruiting (New Zealand):

Fejois (tons of em), persimmons, guavas, bannana, lemons (just started), avocados (nearing the end), quinces (gotta make jelly today), apples (we have picked golden delicious and cooking apples will be ready soon, I'm going to make some cider), figs (nearing end), Casimiroa, tamarillo, rocoto chilli. I think kiwi fruit are fruiting too but we don't grow any.

Apricots, Apples, Pears, Peaches, Nectarines, tho' not all are in my garden.

My mom sent me a video of my dad and daughter picking oranges and avocados yesterday

Denmark, so ... none? 🤔

If we're counting foraging for plants, there's ramsons, garlic mustard, dandelions and ground elder. Probably also a bunch of edible flowers. Ground ivy springs to mind, but don't know much about the others.

Pretty much nothing that I'm aware of, other than my neighbor's greenhouse grown tomatoes.

Nothing right now, but we've got raspberries, gooseberries and strawberries. Also grapes, but they tend to be late in the season. Most of the time we will not be there when they're ripe somehow, and since our chickens are free ranging parts of the gardens, they tend to eat the gooseberries, and most of the leaves from the raspberries (not the raspberries self though). Most years we will also give them the grapes, since they'll be ripe all at once. Sometimes I'll try to make some wine from them though.

I picked a couple hand fulls of mulberry while doing yard work this weekend. Still too early for most stuff here in the southern US, but this wet warm weather has stuff coming in fast.

Nothing really, for now, we're just high enough that spring comes late. But the raspberries are doing amazing, the apple trees looks like clouds, my kid has been weeding and cleaning the huge strawberry patches, the wild strawberries are everywhere, the baby fruit trees are growing. It's gonna be lovely!

Spring just started here. We might get green grass in a week or two!

Nothing yet, our cherries just started flowering this past week. Same for the haskaps, and the plums should be flowering in the next week or two. Our patch of ramps has grown again, which is nice.