As a highlight of my vacation, Harvey Correia played gracious host to me and my sister today, with a tour of his new fig orchard, and an extensive fig tasting. In addition, my sister hauled off a large box of very fancy tomatoes. Here are a couple of pictures. More will follow to show specific figs we sampled. Thank you Harvey.

Do you taste anything memorable?

Yes! The standout for me was Panache, but there were many more … I will be posting additional pictures showing the figs, later.

Enjoyed the visit, Donna, despite the heat.  It got hotter today than the forecast last night predicted.  It was 97F when you left at 1pm and got up to 102F a few hours later.  I was done for the day after the tour but am out irrigating alfalfa tonight.

Thanks again to sister Debbie for the gifts of preserves, etc.!

Wow! Harvey is a sweetie pie :-)

Can't wait to start mine! Fudge it has been a busy season for me at the Bakery, blah.

Donna thank you for posting, sounds like your trip was delightful!

Jenny

Hey, Donna, where are those photos? :)

Harvey, I will get it together. I have an idea, if I post 'em, will you caption 'em?

Sure....I think.  You can comment on my hands yourself though! lol

Here are some pix!

Those are some fancy tomatoes.  And the fig orchard is truly impressive.  Great job Harvey and thank you for sharing the pics Donna!

Nice pics Donna. I agree, that's a lot of cool looking tomatoes. I'd like to see Harvey's orchard in about 3 years when those trees grow up some.

What poms do you favor, Harvey?  I would have headed straight for the white sapotes, myself.  Tomatoes can wait another day!

Thanks for sharing the photos, Donna.  I think your lens distorted my fat round head in photo #10, it definitely is not pointy like that. ;)

I have about 60 or so varieties of pomegranates and about 30 that I've tried fruit from.  I like pretty much all of them.  The ones that stick out in my mind right now are Desertnyi, Parfianka, Azadi, Vkusnyi, Gissarskii Rosovoyi, Vina, Sin Pepe, Purple Heart (some years), Wonderful (if fully ripe which is usually not the case with store-bought fruit), Sakerdze, Sirinevyi.....Granada for early fruit (picked my first of the season a few days ago).

My son and I are growing over 30 varieties of tomatoes with a lot of SunGold and beefsteak types and then a lot of heirloom/gourmet OP types.  Vintage Wine and Solar Flare are some pretty neat-looking tomatoes.  Michael Polan (the green/yellow one) doesn't seem to taste as good as when I tried it at the breeder's farm last year where it had more of a tropical flavor.  The tomatoes took a back seat to figs back in January/February so they got started late.  It was a good summer job for my son last year.  He funded about $500 towards his Scout Eagle service project with it and made another $4,000 or so.  Better than the summer job for most teenagers.

Thanks, Donna for sharing your pics and visit to Harvey's with us.  It sounds like an amazing visit and Harvey sounds like an absolute joy to talk with.  

Harvey, very few things literally make me laugh out loud but for some reason your comment about your pointed head in photo 10 made me LOL, which earned me strange looks from my two mini dachshunds.  =)   

Hi Harvey, glad the pictures turned out OK. I'm not so sure that it's the lens. Look at the last picture (re your misshapen noggin).

BTW, is Grenada a hard-seeded variety? Do you know anything about its hardiness?