June 4, 2012 - Harvest Monday

This past week, I harvested the last of the spring spinach, and had my first harvest of snap peas, carrots and potatoes. The carrots, planted in the same bed and from the same packet, but two weeks apart, were stunted and forked from the second planting, yet perfect and straight from the first planting.  The six potatoes were "stolen" from under a single plant, and I didn't dig around for more than we would consume in one meal.  They are perfect!  If this is an indication of what the future potato crop will produce, I will be one happy Granny!

I'm beginning to pull some of my third planting of radishes, and so far they've been much nicer than my earlier ones.    The Walla Walla sweet onions are sizing up nicely, the last one I pulled weighed 5.9 ounces after removing the green top and the long roots.  Three nice green onions, from the seeds that were started inside, were pulled.  The wind had knocked the tops over onto the newly seeded rows in that bed, so the decision was made to use them in the green stage, rather than wait for them to mature.

I pulled the few heads of garlic that had been transplanted into the triangle gardens.   They weren't growing well at all, and can be used now, rather than left to rot in the garden.

The lettuce continues to be the star of the garden, but I pulled the last of the mature heads on Sunday.  There are many more young plants growing, while we try to consume the three large bags that are chilling in the refrigerator.

All but one of the January planted Minigold tomatoes have been moved into the garden.  I've left the prettiest of the four on the patio, where it continues to blossom freely but be the slowest bearing fruit.  The other three have given me a dozen nice little tomatoes this week.




Harvest for the week of 5/28 through 6/03 

Lettuce - 42.4 ounces
Garlic - 3.2 ounces
Tomatoes - 4 ounces
Spinach - 26.5 ounces
Onions - 16.7 ounces
Snap Peas - 3.4 ounces
Celery - 4 ounces
Radishes - 2.6 ounces
Carrots - 3.7 ounces
Potatoes - 10.3 ounces


Total for week: 116.8 oz (7.3 lb.) 
Total for year: 410.9 oz (25.68lb.) 

Daphne's Dandelions is the host for Harvest Monday, where everyone can share links to their harvest for the week. Please visit her blog and leave a link, so we can enjoy your harvest photos! 


35 comments:

  1. WOW! that's a very large onion for so early in a season! mine are not even starting to form bulbs yet. Gorgeous carrots, salads and the greens and YAY for first potatoes!

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    1. Jenny, I'm happiest about the potatoes! And the carrots, but they could be a bit larger. I hope that entire planting isn't deformed.

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  2. Looks great, love the carrots, makes me wish I grew some this year.

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    1. Kris, you didn't plant carrots? I think they are the most important veggie in my entire garden!

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    2. No, I didn't. No one in my family really eats them and it is tough when you just don't have the room to plant everything.

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    3. Oh, my. Carrots are the very first thing my kids want me to grow for them! We love them both cooked and raw.

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  3. Oh such pretty carrots. Mine aren't nearly big enough to pick yet, but they are finally starting to grow. I can't wait for my first one.

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    1. Daphne, the straight carrots are really pretty. Darned if I can figure out why the others would be stunted and forked.

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  4. So, no spinach left? Sob. But criminey, you have so much to harvest. I do enjoy stealing.....I mean....looking at carrots, too.
    ;)

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    1. Sue, I told ya you could move in anytime, girl. Of course, I'd make you my slave, but I'd grow spinach and carrots for you!

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  5. Pretty photos, Granny. Where is the one of the potatoes? ;)

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    1. Stay @ Home, how can you miss those six baby reds in the bottom right photo? I'm just getting ready to fry them up for breakfast!

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  6. What a wonderful onion! I have never grown carrots that look like carrots. And they are never sweet like the ones in the store. I've tried several kinds over the years. This year I didn't even bother. I'll have to use it as one of my research vegetables one of these years.

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    1. Langela, I've always had good luck with this variety, as well as a couple of others. I have no idea why they would do that on just one side of that bed. The bed was prepped exactly the same, at the same time, and both plantings were identical (napkin seed mats covered with vermiculite lightened soil). They get watered the same. The only difference I can think of is they might be from different seed packets. I do have one packet that was from last year, and another fresh one, but that certainly shouldn't be the cause. The straight carrots would definitely been from the fresh seeds. Root-knot nematodes or manures could cause it, but why only one side of the bed?

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  7. Your harvest looks lovely. Your garden is transitioning nicely. You are still pulling in greens just as the summer crops (tomatoes) are starting to put out. I wish I could figure this transition out, so I don't have weeks of nothing :).

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    1. S. Modern, thank you. Last year I got lettuce to grow all summer. I had the lettuce bed situated behind the garden shed, where it was shaded from three sides by the shed and a 6' high wood fence. If you check my Monday Harvest posts for July and August 2011, you'll see I was getting quite a lot of Red Sails lettuce each week. The year before (which was very a hot 100F+ summer) I grew it in a different area, but provided dappled shade by using lattice over it, and I grew it clear through July. This year I have moved the bed to yet another location, so it remains to be seen how long I can have fresh lettuce growing.

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  8. Looks great! My sungolds are starting to form fruit! I ready for some tomatoes, too!

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    1. Deb, I have at least three other varieties that are forming fruit now, so it shouldn't be too long before I get a full sized red tomato. Victor, Bloody Butcher and Marglobe Supreme are all in the running for the first ripe red.

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  9. great harvest! What you do plant once you pull your radishes up?

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    1. Mrs. P., I just plant more radishes. They are on the outside edges of the garden, so eventually the crops growing next to them take over the space. The ones I'm harvesting now are around the edge of the bed of peas and broccoli. There is a volunteer tomato plant inside the pea tepee that I hope survives until I tear the pea vines down, then it can grow into the radish area too.

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  10. My that lettuce looks good! Maybe some day I'll be able to grow carrots. I keep trying, but they never amount to much. The potatoes look yoummy!

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    1. Ed, the potatoes were yummy. I wish it weren't pouring down rain right now so I could go dig some for tonight's dinner. Oh well, I have plenty of lettuce and spinach for a big salad!

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  11. I don't have real good luck with carrots getting very big and they don't taste as sweet as the ones I buy but I keep trying. My dog loves them anyway and I freeze a few for the crockpot. Super harvest! Nancy

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    1. Nancy, I usually get quite a few nice carrots, but never as many as the family would like and certainly never enough to preserve. I'm planting them everywhere i can find a spot this year!

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  12. You are my onion growing hero. That is just a beauty and it is so early in the season for them too. Have you been using some of your magic plant medicine on them too? ;D

    Everything looks gorgeous (as usual) and congratulations on the great early potato harvest. Good indication of how the crop is progressing over all

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    1. Kitsap, it worked on the pansy, it worked on the broccoli, maybe it worked on the onions....I'm not telling!

      You sent your rain to me, didn't you?

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  13. You sure are harvesting a lot of veggies, Granny. They look wonderful!

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    1. The harvests are getting better, Greg, but they are still a bit behind with our record cold temperatures and record rainfall. The cool weather crops are loving it, but the rest of the garden is just kind of sitting there doing nothing, waiting for some heat.

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  14. wow such a great harvest! Well, send me some cool weather and rain and I'll send you some of these 100+ days!

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    1. Mary, I wish I could! It's 57F and raining right now, and it should be mid 80s and sunny. I'm not anxious to see 100 degrees, but I'd sure like it to get warmer and somewhat dryer! At this rate, I might have to move back to Arizona for the summers, LOL!

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  15. It all looks so good. Especially the carrots and potatoes

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