Journal
Spartan Blueberry OHT-12
Bluegold Blueberry OHT-17
Bluegold's fall leafs are more maroon, my other blueberries are brighter red
Jersey OHT-18
Darrow OHT-20
I love the fall colors blueberry bushes bring to my yard, Darrow is especially vibrant this year.
Northline OHT-13
Has a nice golden yellow fall color
+1LSU Tiger FigCommon fig
Harvest · Oct 5
This one is coming into producing a good number of figs, I feel like the LSU tiger is maybe at the borderline for seattle, it's about as late as I'd want to have a fig come ripe, any later and you're likely to get water logged, flavorless figs. LSU Tiger for me has often just gotten the figs in before weather turns bad, and that's been late September/Early October. I bet we'll lose half of the crop to bad weather this year. Where you look at something like Ronde de Bordeaux, we are harvesting almost the entire crop, we are still getting lots of figs right now but we'll end up harvesting most, if not all of the figs from that tree, certainly more ideal main crop timing on that tree, but you can't beat LSU tiger on its sweetness, it's so sweet.
Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
More and more figs, it's been a big crop off RDB this fall
LSU Tiger Fig OHT-29
Starting to hit its stride, this fig has had a tough skin this year, which it didn't have last year, but flavor is great.
+2Violette de Bordeaux OHT-38
First ripe main crop, so good, VBD this year has just been my favorite fig variety in terms of flavor.
+1Vern's Brown Turkey OHT-9
This is also the first fig I've ever gotten off these grafts so I'm not going rate its flavor yet, it was only ok.
+1LSU Tiger Fig OHT-29
It would have been a little earlier but the first ripe one got snagged by something
+1Unknown Brown Turkey OHT-43
First main crop, taste pretty good, sweet and good flavor
Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
+1Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
Lots of rain last night and RDB figs cracked a swelled up a bit
Bearss seedless lime OHT-92
Scale bugs with their ant friends
Imperial Epineuse Plum OHT-37
This one loses its leafs before the other varieties I have
Marseille Black VSCommon fig
Harvest · Sep 10
Next to the RDB you can see how thick the skin is on these, but the MBVS taste better to me. Still not as good as I remember them from our old potted MBVS that I got rid of, but this one was better than the first.
Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
It seems ripe, no sap when picked, but I still haven't had a RDB I'm crazy about, maybe it needs to get more ripe
Ronde de Bordeaux OHT-10
Lattarula OHT-39
Nice, taste great, smaller than the breba but taste similar, I like this fig and it's main crop came in nice and early, our second earliest of our fig varieties this year
Villarica Strawberry Chilean Guava OHT-80
These taste pretty good, I'm calling them ready
Canadice Grape OHT-72
Marseille Black VS OHT-21
First main crop fig and it's just ok, we had a lot of rain recently and that maybe why the flavor was not the best, it seems like rain and cold makes the skin mushy on figs and the flavor pretty watery. It was the first fig from this graft and I'm sure they'll get better.
+1Villarica Strawberry Chilean Guava OHT-80
Looking good, the Berry's on this one are bright red. I tried one, it wasn't bad but I think it will get better, not counting it as first fruit.
Evergreen Huckleberry OHT-1
Starting to get a few
Marseille Black VS OHT-21
I started holding out hope for a main crop fig in August in Seattle, it got pretty close, with this one grown against a south facing fense, but not quite.
Also this month: Harvest ×2 · Done Producing ×1 · First Fruit ×1 · Other ×1
Raspberry patch OHT-85
More berries
Jefferson Hazelnut OHT-81
Last I checked this tree was full of nuts, maybe in the hundreds, now I don't see a single one, I wonder who the culprit is here? I'll need to put up a camera next year I think.
Bearss seedless lime OHT-92
Bearss seedless lime OHT-92
Bearss seedless lime OHT-92
+1Italian Prune OHT-55
My first Italian harvest where couldn't eat them all fresh and we needed to dry them, still got a lot left on the tree
Canadice Grape OHT-72
Not quite ripe enough for me, but the kids love em so we're breaking into them
Thimbleberry OHT-16
Italian Prune OHT-55
Brooks Plum OHT-35
+1Brooks Plum OHT-35
Good flavor, we only got two plums from this graft this year.
Brooks Plum OHT-35
Oblong shape, and larger than the Italian plums
Italian Prune OHT-55
Green Gage OHT-28
Green Gage OHT-28
Green Gage OHT-28
Sometimes it's easy to miss the green gages on the tree, these ones were overly ripe
NanaimoPeach
Done Producing · Aug 15
Last peach of the summer, it was very good.
Raspberry patch OHT-85
Fall/Second harvest is kicking in.
+1Italian Prune OHT-55
It is somewhat absurd how productive the Italian Prune is in our region, it's amazing how one tree produces so much fruit. While some of my other plums may beat it in flavor it's hard to beat it in productivity.
Canadice Grape OHT-72
Mirabelle New York OHT-24
Nanaimo OHT-7
Mirabelle New York OHT-24
+1Mirabelle New York OHT-24
This is the first time I've noticed an insect larvae in a plum, not sure what it is
Mirrabelle American OHT-25
These are closer to what I'd consider a classic mirabelle plum. Small yellow plum, first one I had was nothing to write home about, but this was the first from this graft and they might need to ripen more. But so far just a so so fresh eating plum
Mirabelle New York OHT-24
This makes a very big plum, not exactly what I imagine when I think of mirabelles
Spartan Blueberry OHT-12
A few berries left, they are incredible, so sweet. We definitely need to wait longer to harvest these, we jump in when they turn blue but they are flavorless early on, come August these guys are amazing
+1Jersey OHT-18
The flavor of these has dramatically improved, just reminds me to wait until August to pick blueberries, they get so much sweeter.
Also this month: Done Producing ×1 · First Fruit ×1 · Harvest ×1
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July
Pretty sure our local rabbits got this one, noticed one hanging around and the seedling is just gone. I'll need to remember to protect young trees from these guys
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Currant maggot
Currant maggot was too much to handle, it's really good at ruining currants
Currant maggots have proven too great of challenge. They have laid waste to every single gooseberry I've grown. Sad because I really love gooseberry
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July 2026
For the last couple years my imperial ep. Plum is the first plum to ripen and we are starting to see color in the plums now. The first to ripen always seem to get hit the worst. During the day squirrels and at night rats are getting at the fruit at the moment, notice the rat trap in the background. Last year I noticed with the camera just putting up the traps, not baiting or loading them, seemed to deter them from the tree, not this guy. They don't seem to go near the traps no matter what bait I put in them. It's something you'll need to deal with if you grow fruit in Seattle. Plums, figs and peaches are all favorites for squirrels and rats, although they'll eat almost anything you grow, maybe not garlic but besides that good luck. Rats get much easier to trap in the winter when they're hungry, trap hard all winter long and the problem will be reduced come summer, although never completely. That's been my strategy so far. Would love to find a way to trap them in the tree but nothing works so far, let me know if you have any ideas.
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October 2026
Bluegold's fall leafs are more maroon, my other blueberries are brighter red
I love the fall colors blueberry bushes bring to my yard, Darrow is especially vibrant this year.
Has a nice golden yellow fall color
This one is coming into producing a good number of figs, I feel like the LSU tiger is maybe at the borderline for seattle, it's about as late as I'd want to have a fig come ripe, any later and you're likely to get water logged, flavorless figs. LSU Tiger for me has often just gotten the figs in before weather turns bad, and that's been late September/Early October. I bet we'll lose half of the crop to bad weather this year. Where you look at something like Ronde de Bordeaux, we are harvesting almost the entire crop, we are still getting lots of figs right now but we'll end up harvesting most, if not all of the figs from that tree, certainly more ideal main crop timing on that tree, but you can't beat LSU tiger on its sweetness, it's so sweet.
We're starting to see some fall colors, one or the reasons people plant vine maple, besides that it's an easy to grow, compact, native tree, is they usually have good fall colors, but I've heard some strains aren't as good as others. This one so far hasn't been stellar, but it's young and has shown some signs of good color, I'll try to journal it's colors this fall.
September 2026
More and more figs, it's been a big crop off RDB this fall
Starting to hit its stride, this fig has had a tough skin this year, which it didn't have last year, but flavor is great.
Figs are really coming in now, they taste better to me too
First ripe main crop, so good, VBD this year has just been my favorite fig variety in terms of flavor.