June 3, 2013 - Harvest Monday

June already!  We are finally beginning to get some warm weather.  Forecasts are for days in the mid-80s to low 90s, with night temperatures finally into the 50s.  Just one lovely, sunny day made the garden spring into growth.  I think the squash, beans and corn all doubled in size overnight!

Harvest weights have been slightly ahead of last year, thanks to the lettuce and strawberries.  Looking back, last year the harvest was more varied, and included some lovely carrots and beets.  My beets are getting close, but the carrots are a long way from ready.

I picked the last of the spring spinach on Saturday, then pulled the bolting plants and replaced them with seeds of beets and cabbage, and a few lettuce transplants.

We had a huge wilted spinach salad for dinner last night, along with freshly dug potatoes and freshly shelled peas that were made into creamed peas and new potatoes....pure heaven!  I also used a sweet onion in the salad, and Mr. Granny got strawberry shortcake with the latest small picking of berries.  The barbecued baby back ribs weren't bad either, but not from the garden of course.


I didn't photograph all of the strawberries.  I've just been getting a small bowl of them at each picking now, as I wait for their next big flush of fruit.  The "sugar snap" peas, that turned out to not be sugar snaps, are being used as shelling peas.  My refrigerator is filled with lettuce, and there is more ready to pick.  

This week's harvest:

Lettuce: 44.5 ounces
Onions: 10 ounces
Peas: 9.4 ounces
Potatoes: 30.7 ounces
Spinach:  22.7 ounces
Strawberries: 32.4 ounces

Total this week:  149.7 ounces ( 9.35 pounds)
Total to date:  31.1 pounds

Be sure to check out Daphne's Dandelions to see what others have harvested this week!

22 comments:

  1. Looks good, I am impressed you already have potatoes!

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    1. Vanessa, that's about average for baby red potatoes here. I have to dig around with my fingers quite a bit to find that many for a meal though :-)

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  2. Wow i popped over from Mrs Pickles Garden and find that you weigh in your harvest! Such variety too.

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    1. Finding Fifth, welcome to my blog! Yes, some of us began weighing our harvests about 3 years ago, so it's habit with me now.

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  3. Beautiful and varied harvest. I can't wait for my snap peas to come in. They have flowers on them now, so it can't be much longer.

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    1. Daphne, at least I'll have my fill of shelling peas, even if I won't have any sugar snaps.

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  4. That sounds like a fine supper! I need to dig a few of my Red Norland spuds...yours look so good.

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    1. Ray, nothing tastes better than those freshly dug baby reds. Well, except maybe for fresh picked corn ;-)

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  5. Glad to hear you can use those fake snaps as shelling peas! Btw, the potatoes look huge on the scale; I've been trying to hold off harvesting mine, but maybe I should scrabble for a few, using the method you described before.

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    1. Mrs. R., yes it is a good thing. I got a heaping half cup from those few, but that was perfect for the creamed potatoes and peas. The larger potatoes were maybe a bit bigger than a tennis ball.

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  6. Great harvest Granny! I picked a few small purple potatoes today, they will make it on next weeks post. Your potatoes look good size! I planted mine too close to the beans so I am afraid to dig too much for them! I wish I was getting that many strawberries. They don't last a minute when I bring them in to wash! If I want to get any I have to hurry up and scarf them before the kids see! ;)

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    1. Shawn Ann, my early strawberries are dwindling down so that Mr. Granny gets most of them now. I'll have to sneak a few for myself, as I love them topped with yogurt! I can't let Mr. G have all the fun ;-)

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  7. Your harvest looks wonderful and you are so ahead of me! The dinner makes my mouth water. Mr. Granny is a lucky guy! I picked one strawberry today from my old patch! I should be weighing my harvest now that I am getting a little more. You are so good at that and keeping track! Nancy

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    1. Nancy, didn't you get a fancy new kitchen scale a while back? You need to use it, LOL!

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  8. Looks good, Granny! I am envious of your baby red potatoes. I hope the peas taste good even though they ended up not sugar snap peas.

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    1. Rachel, they were really good in the creamed potatoes (and the small ones I ate raw while shelling them). But they are definitely a shelling pea. I tried taking a bite of nearly every pod of those picked, and they were all inedible.

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  9. Don't you just love how much a little sun changes everything?! You are getting quite a nice variety of harvest items already. Our peas, strawberries and potatoes etc are a ways away from being ready - but soon!

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    1. Kitsap, I'm loving the weather right now! I swear I can sit here and watch the squash grow :-) It's still not quite warm enough for morning coffee on the patio, but it's getting close.

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  10. Nice harvest Granny! I really do think I need to try potatoes next year...

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    1. Yes, Tiny, you do! Unfortunately, they are so good I can't keep up my "white potatoes only once a week" thing, but I am being pretty good with my portion control. Even though I'd love to eat an entire meal of just new potatoes with butter!

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