8/23 - 15 oz. pole beans, 8 oz. cucumbers, 21 oz. summer squash & zucchini, 11 oz. strawberries, 42 ounces tomatoes.
8/24 - 47 oz. tomatoes.
8/25 - 15 oz. pole beans, 17 oz. cucumbers, 14 oz. strawberries.
8/25 - 194 oz. tomatoes.
8/26 - 12 oz. green peppers.
8/26 -13 oz. pole beans, 8 oz. cucumbers, 26 oz. summer squash, 27 oz. tomatoes.8/27 - 27 oz. tomatoes (no photo)
8/28 - 13 oz. lettuce, 60 oz, summer squash, 72 oz. butternut squash, 94 oz. tomatoes.Harvest Totals August 22-28
Beans, pole - 2.69 pounds
Cucumbers - 2.06 pounds
Lettuce - 13 oz.
Peppers, sweet - 12 oz.
Squash, summer - 6.69 lb.
Squash, winter - 4.50 lb.
Strawberries - 1.56 pounds
Tomatoes - 26.94 pounds
Total harvest for the week: - 46 pounds
Total harvest for the year to date: - 350.25 pounds pounds
There should have been more. I didn't get everything picked on Sunday, so there are still strawberries and pole beans that should have been harvested.
Beans, pole - 2.69 pounds
Cucumbers - 2.06 pounds
Lettuce - 13 oz.
Peppers, sweet - 12 oz.
Squash, summer - 6.69 lb.
Squash, winter - 4.50 lb.
Strawberries - 1.56 pounds
Tomatoes - 26.94 pounds
Total harvest for the week: - 46 pounds
Total harvest for the year to date: - 350.25 pounds pounds
There should have been more. I didn't get everything picked on Sunday, so there are still strawberries and pole beans that should have been harvested.
Please join in the Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions!
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Too much of a Good Thing
The pattypan squash plant grew....and grew, and grew. It grew over the fence and into the tomatoes. It grew into the raised bed and smothered the spinach. It grew over the butternut squash plants and almost killed them.
It grows no more. The pattypans were good, but the butternuts are better. I had to make a choice, and the winter squash won. This is just one vine! Yes, one plant. It would be nice if I had an acreage, but it was too much for my small space. When it had been removed, I discovered two ripe butternut squash that had been completely hidden by this foliage.
Now the butternuts have room to grow.
This week was the last week of good tomato harvest. I'm really happy about that. I think I'm allergic to the plants. I've been having to stay inside away from the outside :<. Maybe I'll get my townhouse mates to rip them out.
ReplyDeletePatty pan squash just doesn't do well here in eastern Oklahoma. I have never seen a vine that large. Maybe they like cooler weather to grow in. You have a lovely garden and I have enjoyed your blog.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you have to make sacrifices for the good of the garden... but sure is hard to see such a beautiful and productive plant go down! You got a lot of good tomato production this week and those green peppers are drop dead gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteNice harvest Gran! I grow the best looking green peppers on the web. How do you get them so big?
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed by how healthy your squash vines still look. I guess you don't have any issue with squash pests and powdery mildew?
As usual very nice harvests! How do you know that the butternut is ripe? I have some on the vine, but not sure when to pick...
ReplyDeleteYour harvest is huge this week. What an incredible variety of stuff. I would have gone with the winter squash too.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is a big Patty Pan vine! Wonderful harvest this week. How do you battle the powdery mildew? My squash etc are just getting slaughtered by it.
ReplyDeleteYou have had a good harvest, every week! Those Pattypan squash look delicious, I've never had them.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, I'm tired of the tomatoes already. Not enough to fool with canning, too many to eat fresh. I'll probably be tossing them into the freezer again for a while.
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Teresa, our weather isn't that cool. Cooler than normal, but still in the mid to high 90s. This is the first summer on record with no triple digit temps!
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Kitsap, some of the peppers are actually showing a bit of red blush. There is still hope!
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Thomas, I'm sure it's the varieties of peppers I grow. You should see my puny jalapenos ;-)
Yes, I'm plagued with powdery mildew here. It's rearing its ugly head in my zucchini right now. No borers her thoug, knock on wood.
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Random, I go by color. It's a golden tan with no green showing. Once they are picked, leave them in a fairly warm area (kitchen counter or laundry room) for a couple of weeks to cure, then to a cool place for winter storage.
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Jody, we love those butternuts, and I'm not going to have very many this year. Next year the entire squash patch will be planted in Walthams, which gave me a super high yield last year. These are Butterbush, and it looks like I might get 6-8.
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Nartaya, it was bigger than it looks in the photo! That was stacked up, the vine had sprawled everywhere in just the past couple of weeks. My zucchini are suffering from PM, and the Butterbush that were under the pattypan aren't looking great. Hopefully they'll perk up now that they can get some air.
Wow! That was one long vine!!
ReplyDeleteYour green peppers look wonderful!
I love your little pattypans! They are so cute! I can't believe it grew so big and out of control! I wish my strawberry plants would produce like that! I need to find my trick here, cause mine are pitiful! You have a great harvest!
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest this week Granny! Boy what a plant that patty pan was! It must have be related to the "Little Shop of Horrors" squash that I had growing out of the compost bins two years ago!
ReplyDeleteWonderful harvest!!Those peppers are huge!! So what do you do with all the pattypans?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Allison.
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Shawn Ann, I haven't picked strawberries all week :-( I hate to think how many have gone to waste!
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Robin, it was a s bad as the pumpkin I grew a couple of years ago. And it says "bush" pattypan!
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Mrs. P., I grated them and froze them for zucchini bread. It's just slightly drier than zucchini, so should work great in recipes.
Yout harvest looks great. How do you like the patty pan squash? I grew a yellow variety and while prolific, I wasn't that impressed with it. They were hard to peel and awkward to slice.
ReplyDeleteEd, I started off loving it, but it soon grew tiresome. I picked them very young, under 6" across, so they didn't need to be peeled. I agree they are awkward to slice, I did mine in pie shaped wedges. I just grated and froze all of my last picking, and will use it like zucchini for baking in breads, cakes and cookies.
ReplyDeleteI can't get over that strawberry harvest, ours have been LONG gone. I hope the butternuts shine!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Kelly, maybe I shouldn't tell you we had fresh strawberry shortcake again last night. The butternut harvest won't come close to last year's. Next year I'll go back to the Waltham variety.
ReplyDeleteWish I had an amazing harvest like that one, wow!! My strawberries are all dead, most of my tomatoes are either dead, or long stopped producing... you are just loaded with food! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteMegan, some things are actually picking up steam in the garden (tomatoes, squash, peppers) while others are winding down or dying. I pulled most of the pole beans today, as bush beans are coming on strong again. Some tomatoes are dying, others are doing great. I do seem to be getting more variety now.
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