June 27, 2010: Harvest Monday



The week of June 21-27
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Harvested:

37 oz. bush green beans
18 oz. broccoli
54 oz. cabbage
31 oz. carrots
85 oz. lettuce
81 oz. onions
13 oz. peas
20 oz. sugar snap peas
64 oz. potatoes
59 oz. raspberries
7 oz. strawberries

This week: 469 ounces = 29.3125 pounds
This year: 103.09 pounds

Daphne's Dandelions hosts our Monday Harvest

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Planted:

parsley seedlings
basil seedlings
marigold seedlings (my saved seed)

Red Ace beets, double row in former pea patch, finished rows off with a few Bull's Blood beets.

Kentucky Blue pole beans (my saved seed, may not grow true)


General Gardening:

Monday - Turned the compost pile.

Wednesday - pruned bottom leaves from tomatoes, tied up where necessary. Pulled snap pea vines after final harvest. Pulled all of the smaller onions from bed #4, and planted the parsley that wasn't doing well in a pot, two small plants of basil and five marigold seedlings. That bed is still half empty, and ready for planting.

Thursday - pulled all the Gonzalez cabbages. Forgot to pick the raspberries! I was waiting for it to cool off, and by the time I thought of it, it was already dark.

Friday - got up early and picked the raspberries and peas, then pulled out the pea vines to compost. Added composted manure to the pea bed, dug it in and prepped it for seeding. Cleaned up the entire kennel garden area, as well as the area between the kennel and fence. Deadheaded the yellow rose that's back there, and fertilized it and the volunteer tomato. Prepped the bed where I removed the cabbages yesterday. Wondering what to plant there, and thinking maybe lobelia for some color. I already have marigolds in the back of the bed, so I need something short in the front.

Sunday: Thinned out the raspberry patch, cutting off all the canes that were flopping out over the sides of the bed.

A gold bell pepper, in a pot with alyssum, was being crowded and deprived of fertile soil by the flowers. The other day, I accidentally left a small plastic tub of 10-10-10 dry fertilizer (poultry manure with minerals, etc) in the garden, then turned on the sprinklers. The resulting liquid would be very strong, and I'd hesitate to use it on anything in my garden. The sickly pepper was just the thing I needed to experiment on! I diluted 1/4 cup of the fertilizer liquid in 2 gallons of water, and added 2 Tbsp. fish emulsion. I pulled the alyssum from the pot, and soaked the pepper with the fertilizer mixture. It should either die or flourish. If it flourishes, I'll have plenty for treating other needy plants in the future.



Other:

Scott says the onions are the best he's ever had, so I gave him a few more.
Gave Scott a pound of green beans.
Gave Pat a head of Gonzalez cabbage.

36 comments:

  1. Man oh man, there must be something in your soil that you're keeping secret. I have loads of lettuce and rocket, and so far that's about it. My tomatoes have flowers, loads of flowers, but no fruit. My beans have long pods but no beans in them. And the weather has turned so everything is wilting in the heat.

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  2. Great harvest Granny! I love the picture collage. Reminds me of one of those puzzle games we played when I was a kid or perhaps vegetable sudoku!

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  3. Congrats on your great harvest week and hitting 100! I haven't hit 50 yet :(

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  4. It's all just beautiful! Great gardening, Granny!

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  5. What a busy gardener you are! Congratulations on going over 100 lbs. That is amazing!

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  6. I just love when you make a single image of all of your harvest pictures from the week. Your garden gives you so much food. Just looking at your those pictures makes me feel like gardening is accomplishing something! Very fun that this time of year is giving you such beautiful colors to work with too!!

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  7. You had a busy and productive week in the garden! I am hoping to do the same over the coming long weekend. Your green bean harvest is particularly nice. Makes me wish my bean patch was further along than it is.

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  8. Lovely harvest. I cant help looking at 4 cabbages in one of the photos. I am currently growing 4 cabbages in pots. The intuition says I really have to cut the heads tomorrow...

    Cheers
    ~bangchik

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  9. TIG, it was nearly 92F here yesterday, after a temperature setting cold spring. It was the 32 pounds of lettuce I've cut that put me over. That's triple what I harvested last year, in the entire year.

    No tomatoes here, either, except that one little cherry tomato. I don't let my green beans get large enough to form beans inside, we prefer to eat them young and tender.

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    Johanna, it does rather look like a jigsaw puzzle, doesn't it? Hey, that gives me an idea for next week (if I don't forget)!

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    Robin, you will. I have faith in you!

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    Thank you, Ribbit! Is that all you have to say? This is like waiting for the other shoe to drop....waiting for the witty comment ;-)

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    Thanks, Rachel.

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    Megan, that's what I like about the single image. You don't realize just how much is brought in from the garden until you see it all together like that! And not everything was photographed, as I often run out to pick something in the evenings, and don't bother to take pictures of just one thing.

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    Kitsap, I'm happy with the bean production so far. I only planted about a third of the bush beans I had last year though, so my total bean poundage may go down....unless I find another spot to plant more ;-)

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    Bangchik, aren't those cute little cabbages? I'll be tasting one of them for the first time today.

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  10. Thanks, Allison. I had to give some of it away, as I always grow way more than two of us can eat.

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  11. Those raspberries look great and hooray for your first cherry tomato!

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  12. Your garden collage is always so pretty! What do you use to make it?

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  13. Emily, it will be a sad day when the raspberries stop fruiting. We've certainly been enjoying them for breakfast and snacks.

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    Shawn Ann, I just used Irfanview and created three vertical panorama images of four photos each, then combined those into one horizontal panorama of the three.

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  14. Granny, do you think the average non-gardening person even buys as much vegetables as you grow?? You continue to amaze me with your prolific harvests.

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  15. I always look forward to reading your blog! Thanks for the whit and wisdom you share!! And your pictures always make me hungry!!

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  16. For some reason today when reading your post I was thinking back to a couple of Winters ago when I first discovered your blog, when my future garden was just a dream ready to be set in motion.

    You and all your planned squares were so amazing and overwhelming to me....and today when I see all you produce I am still amazed at all you accomplish AG, it really is impressive.

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  17. I just love reading your garden reports! I think you love gardening as much as I do, and that's saying something.

    You got a lot of raspberries! They don't seem to like our heat, the blackberries do much better.

    Good to see you're still getting lettuce. I was afraid you might run out! It seems to be your year for it.

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  18. thyme2garden, I know I wouldn't. Not even close. And we wouldn't eat nearly as many fruits and vegetables if I had to buy them. Especially if I bought organic!

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    Thank you, Debiclegg! How sweet of you.

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    Kelly, it really has been almost two years. Next month will be my 2nd. blogiversary!

    ********Well, thank you, Villager. Coming from you, that's a real compliment. Yes, I think we were both born to garden ;-)

    I had to toss my first head of lettuce into the compost this morning. It bolted on me overnight. There's still a lot going strong out there, though.

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  19. That's a lovely, well rounded harvest and the potatoes look gorgeous to me at the moment or maybe I'm hungry. No, it all looks lovely.

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  20. I love your photo collage! I need to figure out how to make one of these myself. Do you use some special software?

    I'm coming up with my fall garden plan now. I can see now how you get such great harvest numbers - you're constantly replanting! I'm itching to clear some space in the garden to do the same.

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  21. You grow so much, it is amazing. Your onions are really nice, are they set grown?

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  22. Thomas, I just used Irfanview (free at http://www.irfanview.com/) and created three vertical panorama images of four photos each, then combined those into one horizontal panorama of the three.

    I have a lot of replanting to do, but it's in the 90s right now, and supposed to drop back into the 70s later this week, so I'll wait until then. It's too hot to be digging in compost and making seed beds right now.

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  23. Dan, the onions are grown from plants. I buy them by the bunch, 65 for $1.39. I haven't yet harvested the bed that was planted for larger onions. They were spaced farther apart, and I'm letting them grow until they are prime for harvesting.

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  24. Granny, where do you buy onion plants?

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  25. thyme2garden, we live in a large farming area, and have several farm/feed stores in the vicinity. We're also just 45 miles from Walla Walla, WA where they grow the famous Walla Walla Sweet Onions. The feed stores always stock up on the plants in March. That's also where I buy my seed potatoes...cheap, with no postage or handling fees ;-)

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  26. Your harvest always seems to amaze me. Especially the raspberry! Do you have any photos of those plants?

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  27. meemsnyc, they kind of get lost in the green tree in the background, they tower above the fence, but this one was taken on June 16.

    http://tinyurl.com/28lhenn

    But...a year ago, they looked like this:

    http://tinyurl.com/28dkef4

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  28. Ottawa Gardener, those potatoes were soooo good! I baked the two larger ones for dinner tonight, and smothered them in chive butter. Now I'm hungry!

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  29. Look at all those harvests. So tasty I'm sure. I could use some cabbage right about now for summer coleslaw but I didn't even see it at the farmers market last week.

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  30. Daphne, I haven't even tried any of the small ones yet, I'm trying to use up some of the lettuce from the fridge before I have to compost it. I have both cole slaw and Kielbasa with vegetables and cabbage slices on the menu for this week, though.

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  31. That's an amazing bunch of harvests!

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  32. That's quite a harvest Granny.... puts mine to shame!
    Nice job on the pictures too.

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  33. Thank you, Michelle!

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    Ron McDonald, I've seen some of your harvest, there's no shame there! Of course, it's been a while since you've posted :-(

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  34. Whoa, that's a lot of harvest, how you do it? It seems we all started around March.

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  35. Mac, yes, I started mid-March. I just plant everything I can in every spot I can find!

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