Hello again

Well fellow gardeners and others, I have been distracted for a few years.  There are times when life just seems to take over and before you know it, three years have flown by.  2018 was a fantastic garden year.  The deep snow of 2017-2018 caused the ground to absorb a great deal of water so when spring came finally, everything took off. We have inherited two dwarf fruit trees from the previous renter.  They were planted in 2014 or 2015 so 2018, after the snow, we had a mild spring.  The apricot tree was loaded and even though we thinned and thinned we still lost branches to the weight of the fruit.  The other tree is a white nectarine that was also loaded and lost about a third of its branched to the weight of nectarines.  It was so sad thinning out all the green little fruit!
The apricots made fantastic jam! The nectarines were delicious right off the tree.
The nectarine took a beating and lost a bunch of branches from too much fruit.
On the fence between the raised bed vegetable garden and the back yard there is a thornless blackberry vine and WOW did it produce a great deal of berries that are now made into blackberry jelly.  It was a fantastic bumper crop year.