*Click on photos to enlarge*Onions and cabbages were the stars of the garden this week, and the green beans are coming on strong. Some Sunsugar cherry tomatoes didn't make the photos, as it's hard not to eat them right from the vine. Today three Bloody Butcher tomatoes were picked all at one time, and four more are near ripening.
Bush beans - 3.19 lb.
Broccoli - .5 lb.
Cabbage - 9.56 lb. (largest, a Red Acre, weighed nearly 4 1/2 pounds)
Carrots - 2.13 lb.
Herbs - .63 lb.
Lettuce - 1.5 lb.
Onions - 21.13 lb.
Raspberries - 3.56 lb.
Shallots - 1.13 lb.
Strawberries - 1.5 lb.
Tomatoes - .56 lb
Total harvest for the week: - 45.38 lb.
Total harvest for the year to date: - 139.56
Please join in the Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions!
While I harvested, Otto and Annie relaxed in the shade. Notice the tomato plant right behind them. That's the Sungold that I thought wasn't going to live, the one that was only 4" tall when it was transplanted on 5/31. It's growing and blossoming, so I may get a taste of the famous Sungold tomato after all!
Wow, very impressive harvests for the week! The cabbage is really pretty, and I've never grown that variety before....
ReplyDeleteWho is this classy lady that now has REALLY stylish pictures with a fancy black background?????
ReplyDeleteI love the new look. Ah, ever-evolving. You never cease to amaze!
Everything looks wonderful-the garden is really cranking out now.
I do believe I'm the only person in the world not growing Sungold. What is wrong with me???????
Wonderful looking harvests. I liked the mosaic of photos to show it all off.
ReplyDeleteLove that photo montage! Everything is looking very green and lush!
ReplyDeleteThat's quite harvest Gran! I am looking forward to bean season myself. It's interesting to see what other gardener are successful at and I'm not. For instance, I can't seem to grow a decent sized onion to save my life! And my savoy cabbages are taking FOREVER! I wonder if they'll end up bolting before they head up.
ReplyDeleteEG, it's a good tasting cabbage, and for some reason the bugs and birds don't find it as attractive as the green variety. I plant both Red Acre and Golden Acre, and the red always out performs.
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Sue, this will be my very first Sungold. One viable seed in 12, and that baby had a real struggle to survive. I almost gave up on it more than once, and even when I finally decided it would live, I didn't think it was going to grow. It took 10 weeks to get to 4" high!
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Thank you Marcia.
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Thanks, Erin.
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Thomas, slugs were such a problem this spring, I'm glad I grew the red cabbages. For some reason, the slugs don't take to the dense, heavy heads like they do to a looser head type.
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Everything looks good Granny! and what a great Harvest you've had..(guess you worked hard enough for it :o) so that makes it well deserved.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was looking at farmer's market pics :) You sure do have a lot of produce! I'm planting red cabbage for fall, so don't I need to cover them(like I do for green cabbages)? I would sure like to keep them open if bugs don't chew on them.
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Random, about the only thing that bothers my cabbages are slugs and earwigs, so covering wouldn't help them much. If you have a problem with cabbage worms/loopers, then I'd still keep them covered. I had a couple of the red cabbages unprotected all summer last year, and the leaves were pristine and I never found a single caterpillar in or on them. This year I found one small one on the big cabbage, but the cabbage moths seemed to be more interested in the flowers than the cabbages! The green cabbages (same bed) were full of slugs and earwigs and holes.
Great harvest! The onions look nice!! Love the dog picture!!
ReplyDeleteWow great harvest!
ReplyDeleteWell in the week you break 100lbs you really do it right don't you? That is almost 50% of what you had already harvested. Sadly my cabbages never started to head up. I need to find a good variety. Hopefully it works for fall, but it didn't head up in the spring.
ReplyDeleteVery bountiful week for you indeed! My garden won't be nearly as productive this year.
ReplyDeleteAllison, I wish I could go sit in the shade, get lots of human love and two big meals prepared for me each day. Not to mention frequent back, belly and muzzle rubs. Oh, for the life of my dogs!
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Thanks, Vanessa.
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Daphne, I might get a good total again this week, or whenever the rest of the onions dry, but then it will be downhill for a while. None of the larger tomatoes are anywhere near ripening, only one winter squash has blossoms, and those are all male. Everything harvested will be light weight.
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Carol, mine is going to be way below last year's harvest. I had a good squash total last year, this year nothing. No potatoes, no Waltham butternut squash, and only half the tomato plants. Peppers that won't come close to last year's yield. I can only hope next year will be more productive.
Very nice! You do so well for not being in a warmer climate! You are on top of things!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Shawn Ann, in the real world I am in a "warmer climate". This year is the exception. We should be in the 90s to triple digits by mid July, and we've been constantly 20 degrees below that average.
ReplyDeleteI am still jealous of those onions! Maybe in a few years, when I have proper raised beds, I will give my hand at them and garlic, as well.
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Holy Moly that was an astounding harvest week! Those onions are gorgeous and your green beans are looking pretty delicious too. Annie and Otto know how to spend a warm summer afternoon - watching you work! :D
ReplyDeleteBen, I don't have mine in proper raised beds, as I tore them out this spring and went back to wide row intensive planting. I had used old deck lumber for the east garden beds, and it was beginning to rot after just 3 years. The cost of all new lumber was just prohibitive, and I'd had lovely gardens without the wood, so I just reverted back to my old ways. The beds in the north garden were made from new lumber, so they will stay until they rot.
ReplyDeleteKitsap, does that mean Annie and Otto are actually smarter than their mistress? I think so ;-) Although Annie did venture into the garden to grab a carrot to snack on. I guess that was her idea of harvesting.
ReplyDeleteJust spectacular! Love the pictures, reminds me of the "memory game" tiles. Hmm an idea for the grand kids?
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos! Looks like your garden is filling your pantries and your refrigerator! I can't even imagine you eating all of that in one week!
ReplyDeleteAwesome harvest! You will love Sungold tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteDavid, another thing that's fun with pictures is to turn them into jigsaw puzzles. I've done that on my blog in the past. The collages are a good way to get lots of pictures in a little space, so handy as the harvests get more varied. Somewhere I did that as an end of season blog, with all my harvest and preserving photos. I tried to find the post the other day, but so far no luck.
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Megan, I sent my youngest son home with a 4 pound cabbage, a bag of onions, and enough carrots and green beans for their dinner. I probably give more to our kids than we eat ourselves.
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Jeanna, thank you! I'm anxious for the Sungolds. So far I've had about 4-5 Sunsugar, which are similar I guess, but the Sungold is supposed to be even better.
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WOW!!!!!!!! Can I just come pick from YOUR garden? lol
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