I ate the first tomato of the season on Thursday. No picture as I pounced on it and gobbled it up before I even thought about taking a pic. It was delicious, a little 'Sungold' cherry tomato from the plants in the barrel on the patio.
I also ate the first ripe apricot of the season on Thursday. I've eaten about a dozen since. They are very good this year and a good size, too. I'm either going to need a ladder to pick some of them or need to find a tall boy to help. Oh, Ben....
Jess brought over a large bag of very delicious sweet cherries this week, so we've eaten our first cherries of the year. Thanks Jess for sharing!
Last, but definitely not least as this will last all year, I did the first canning of the year. I made 7 jars of strawberry currant juice yesterday and another 7 bottles of straight currant juice today.
Between the two batches, there was about a pint leftover that Mike made into strawberry currant lemonade. He and Ben seemed to have enjoyed it, so I'm guessing that it's a good year for juice.
It is also an early year for juice. I made juice about a month later last year and almost two weeks later the year before. Our mild winter and very warm spring apparently got the currant bushed working hard to finish their crop before the real heat hits.
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