First Apricot Harvest

A year and a half ago we planted five fruit trees—two cherry trees, an apricot, nectarine, and a plum tree. The apricot is the first to produce fruit this summer. The other trees most likely will start next summer.

We were forced to pick them a bit early because the birds, even though we draped the tree in bird netting, figured a way to get in and start to devour the fruit. What you see here is the total fruit for this year.

This is this morning's batch, there are enough apricots left to do this once again tomorrow . . . a total of eight pints for the pantry and gifts.

Final count . . . 17 half-pints of delicious Apricot Jam!

Life is good!