I'm getting ready to blanch and freeze a bunch of green beans this
morning. Actually the beans are purple but they turn green when cooked.
Also have a 3-gallon bucket of sweet chiles (peppers to Yanqui's) to
deseed, chop, and freeze. Most of these are Longhorns from plants I
started on January 15, 2003, they slightly froze back during our mild
winter and I pruned and fed them in February and they are really producing.

The Tatume and trombocino squash are loaded with blooms and small
squash, looks like another bumper year around here. The sweet kumquat is
loaded with blooms so it won't be long before I feed it and spray it
with 80% sulphur to keep the citrus rust mites in check. We've already
put up several trays of lemon juice cubes and the Ponderosa lemon is
loaded with both fruit and blooms. Figs are coming on like gang busters
and the Fuyu persimmon is loaded with fruit, I've been combating white
scale on that tree and seem to be winning.

Noticed the first eggplant of the season this morning, about six inches
long, may have some broiled eggplant and squash to go with the grilled
steaks on Memorial Day.

Life is good.

George