*Each week Daphne's Dandelions hosts Monday Harvest. Be sure to visit her blog to see who is harvesting what this week!*
9/14 - 20 oz. bell peppers, 10 oz. carrots, 23 oz. melon, 38 oz. cucumbers, 5 oz. strawberries, 21 oz. zucchini (to son, not shown)
9/15 - 56 oz. tomatoes, 9 oz. cucumbers
9/17 - 6 pounds 5 oz. beets, 13 oz. carrots, 4 pounds 7 oz. zucchini, 2 pounds 7 oz. cucumbers, 12 oz. bell peppers, 6 oz. strawberries, 5 oz. jalapeno peppers, 1 pound 11 oz. tomatoes, 2 pounds 3 oz. melons
9/18 - 3 oz. jalapenos, 3 oz. onions, 3 oz. herbs (parsley), 3 oz. strawberries, 34 oz. tomatoes
9/19 - 36 oz. tomatoes, 10 oz. lettuce/mesclun, 5 oz. cucumber, 1 oz. jalapenos
9/20 - 34 oz. cucumber (one huge cucumber that was hiding! Yes, it still tasted sweet.), 1 oz. spinach, 51 oz. tomatoes, 4 oz. beets, 11 oz. carrots, 24 oz. green bell peppers (for neighbor, not shown.Total harvest for week: 42 pounds
Total harvest for year: 852 pounds
Total harvest for year: 852 pounds
You will forever be known as the Tomato Goddess! I'm in Southeastern VA and I don't even have anymore coming in!
ReplyDeleteGranny, I still maintain you could feed a small country.
ReplyDeleteGood lord, granny....kinda let that cucumber get out of hand, didn't ya? Oh, those tomatoes next to it look yummy...
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. Are you eating the beet greens as well as the beets themselves?
ReplyDeleteErin, I have so many green tomatoes out there, but with the cooler nights I'm not sure they'll ripen. I was expecting at least three more weeks with night time temps in the 50s, and last night we got hit with a 39! That doesn't bode well for tomatoes.
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Ribbit, sometimes I think my kids ARE a small country! Hey, want me to send you a life boat?
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EG, can you believe a 32 ounce cucumber that still tastes good? That's one thing I like about this variety! Of course, I scoop out the seeds and just use the outer part.
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Stefani, we don't really like the greens, but I take all of them to my neighbor whose son-in-law loves them. He said those were the best he'd ever eaten!
Your garden is still producing very nicely even if its not a 100lbs per week! :-) I see you have another savor f1 harvested, it looks great. I am becoming quite happy with my vines, they have quite a few melons on now that should actually ripen in time. With the summer we had I am surprised they did anything.
ReplyDeleteDan, I hope you are better at picking the melons at the correct time. The first leaf on this melon had yellowed and begun to die, and I couldn't smell it (because of my cold), so I took a chance. It was hard and green inside :-( I have two more chances to get another good melon. There are actually four of them, but I think two are too small to mature.
ReplyDeleteThe first leaves on my melons are all yellow/dried/dead too. The vines really looking awful, I should do a post on them next. I have been smelling and squishing them everyday :-)
ReplyDeleteDan, my vines are looking so green and healthy. I cut them way back last week, as there was no time left for new melons to form, and they were overtaking the strawberry bed. They are one of the few large-leafed plants in the garden that didn't have powdery mildew.
ReplyDeleteI cannot get over how beautiful your red sweet bell peppers are! They are blocky and beautiful. You should be really proud of growing those.
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest this weeks. I am starting to close the gap on your harvest total this month but don't have a prayer of a chance to catch up to your yearly total until you make the move to your winter digs! LOL!
I'm amazed by how perfect your carrots look. Do you prep your soil differently for them than you do for your other veggies?
ReplyDeleteWow, what a haul! It all looks so good.
ReplyDeleteKitsapFG, I am so happy with those peppers, and they will probably be the main variety I grow next year. They are just huge, and I've had quite a few that have turned red.
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Thomas, no special prep, but I do glue the seeds to paper napkins so the spacing is perfect on them. It's easier and less time consuming than trying to scatter that tiny seed and then thin them for proper spacing. I have noticed the carrots planted at the edge, next to the boards, are almost all forked. I'll make sure they are in the center of the bed next year.
Granny, that's such a great idea! Someone else just mentioned something called "carrot tape" to me, which I think is the same sort of concept. Where have I been? I feel so behind the times.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, do you just your everyday Elmer's glue or one of those glue sticks perhaps?
ReplyDeleteThomas, yes. I use Elmer's School Glue (or any water soluble glue). A cheap napkin from a fast food place works best. I bought some cheap napkins, but they were too flimsy, the glue seeped through and stuck to anything it was laying on. I had to hang them over hangers in the laundry room to dry! Tell you what, I'll just do a blog on that today. I have all the photos, as I'd meant to blog about it someday anyway.
ReplyDeleteAh, you're the best!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful as always. I bet you are just counting the days until AZ. Then you can quit canning and picking veggies and take a well deserved rest!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Daphne. Actually I'm wondering how much of this garden will go to waste because I won't be able to harvest it all (like I need more tomatoes or peppers). In AZ, I'll probably grow a tiny salad garden....the two 3'square boxes will become one for more soil depth. No canning, not a lot of picking. It's going to be so boring!
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