Harvest Recap for the Week of September 23 - September 29
Total for week: 40 pounds
Total year to date: 948 pounds
Beans, bush - 35 pounds (final)
Beans, pole - 50 pounds (final)
Beets - 7 pounds (final)
Beet Greens - 3 pounds (final)
Broccoli - 10 pounds
Cabbage - 15 pounds (final)
Carrots - 12 pounds
Corn - 23 pounds (final)
Cucumbers - 45 pounds
Garlic - 1 pound (final)
Herbs - 3 pounds (I didn't weigh most of the herbs I harvested)
Lettuce - 23 pounds
Melons - 29 pounds
Onions - 32 pounds (final)
Parsnips - 3 pounds
Peas, shelling - 7 pounds (final)
Peas, sugar snap - (blossoming now, a harvest is iffy)
Peppers (hot) - 1 pound (3 potted plants given to son Scott to try to grow through the winter)
Peppers (sweet) - 80 pounds
Potatoes - 73 pounds (final)
Radishes - 1 pound (final)
Raspberries - 12 pounds (final)
Rhubarb - 6 pounds (final)
Spinach - 7 pounds
Squash (summer) - 101 pounds (final)
Squash (winter) - 136 pounds (final)
Strawberries - 38 pounds (final)
Tomatoes - 201 pounds
Daphne's Dandelions is the host for Harvest Monday.
Always satisfying to come to the end of the season and see totals --especially like that. Wow! Impressive. You could feed a small army. I don't do pounds, etc-but I'm always surprised to see the totals of what's in the freezer. Such a good feeling.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the process of putting the beds to sleep for the season--what a job. I could use a hired hand about now, but yet can't think of a better way to spend the day. But oh, my aching back!
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Sue, my body's all achin' and wracked with pain, LOL! After a day of garden cleanup, I had the windstorm pine tree mess to clean up in the front yard....then we got another windstorm last night,so I get to do it all over again.
DeleteSo close to 1000 pound. But even if you don't make it, It has been a good year for you. I always love looking at what the final poundage is for someone because it really says what you like to eat. My highest (now that I can't eat tomatoes) is always greens. I eat a lot of greens over the year and very little of it is lettuce which is your favorite green. From your totals I would say you are a tomato and squash lover. So is that true? Or did you just grow way too much squash?
ReplyDeleteDaphne, too much summer squash, but it was only one hill of each (2 zucs and 2 crookneck). Not too much butternut, believe it or not. Could have used more tomatoes. I had enough for salsa and juice, but didn't get any diced tomatoes canned. I was way low on spinach and carrots, and the beets were disappointing I planted enough, but they didn't do well this year. Way too many green beans!
DeleteWhat a variety of crops - and such bounty! It is a shame that the weather has turned. I will be interested to see how the pepper plants do overwinter.
ReplyDeleteGardening Shoe, I kept one potted sweet pepper for myself. I don't know how it will do in its north facing window, I might have to bring in a grow light for it, but so far it's ripening peppers just fine.
DeleteI did have success keeping a couple of peppers alive indoors in the winter, but they were the small-fruited kinds, one a tabasco-like hot pepper (from Hawaii). The leaves eventually all fell, but the stems continued to stay green. And when the weather warmed up the next year, they grew gangbuster and were twice as big as the others! Unfortunately, they also attracted gnats, so no more overwintering peppers this year. I'd interested to see how yours fare. And Granny, your harvest is da bomb! :-) Looks like a great year for you!
DeleteMrs. R., This is a smallish fruited pepper. Even if it doesn't flower and fruit, I think I should be able to keep it alive and set it out again next spring. Years (many, many) ago I had a small chili pepper plant that grew and fruited like crazy on the coffee table! If I remember correctly, I started it from a seed from a can of hot pepper flakes! It was a gorgeous little plant. Oh, I hope I don't get gnats! I bought a snake plant that came from the nursery with a gnat infestation. I never did get rid of them, I ended up throwing the plant away. We were in AZ that winter, and no way was I going to bring those gnats back home to WA with us!
DeleteWOW..that is a lot of good food eatin!! lol. You are amazing with what you pull out of the earth:-) I have my fall garden going now , lettuce, arugula, spinach( but the ground hog ate most of that, parsley is taking off again, kale that I planted in the spring is enjoying the cool down, and Swiss chard will be good until it snows. I was digging rocks out of an herbal bed yesterday that I am starting, so I am sore and I know what you mean. But I often think, it is a good soreness since it means I worked hard:-)
ReplyDeleteRobbie, my fall garden was a bit of a flop! The spinach was planted twice, and didn't germinate. I'm starting some seeds inside, so I'll know if it's the seeds or just bad timing/heat that did them in. If they grow, it will be a miracle if I can actually get them planted out and get them established before winter. I had to dig out quite a few of the carrots so I could get the raspberry canes planted behind the shed, but the remaining ones are looking pretty good. Wind blew the pea vines off of the trellis, and I struggled with trying to upright them and tie them up, but it turned out to be a 2 man job, and I just couldn't hold up the vines and tighten the twine at the same time. They will just have to continue to flop over :-(
DeleteWow your vegetables are fab, we did ok on onions and tomatoes this year,mixed salad greens and garlic, no courgettes(eaten) going to cover them with net next year, well done.
ReplyDeleteThank you, fizzycat! It has been a pretty good year for most things. My root crops were rather disappointing.
DeleteI have to bring in my tomatoes when they are blushing nayway so they are normally only pale like that. LOL> I may be weird but my favorite color of pepper is mixed. When they are bi or even tri colored it just tickles me. :-) Lovely harvests Granny. Even with the cooler weather and stormy winds you are managing to bring in the goods.
ReplyDeleteBarbie, by now almost all of my peppers get sliced or diced and frozen for winter meals, so the color doesn't matter all that much. I do like the red , yellow and orange for my fajitas (they're sweeter), but chili and casseroles and omelets taste fine whichever color I use.
DeleteI'm not liking the cool weather that much, but the strawberry and raspberry transplants are loving it!
The end of the summer is always so much work! You have a wonderful harvest this week, as always.
ReplyDeleteSusan, I'm hoping by doing as much as possible this fall, the less I'll have to do at planting time next spring! After all, I'll be another 5 months older then ;-)
DeleteYour harvest is still nice and more than I am getting! We have had beautiful weather though and I hope it continues for awhile as I have much to do out there. Does the rain make you ache or just the gardening! Nancy
ReplyDeleteOh, Nancy, enjoy your weather! Ours is expected to be in the low 60s, windy and off and on rainy all week. We should be in the mid 70s yet!
DeleteIt's the gardening and yard cleanup that have me aching. I've been trying to tackle garden, yard and flower beds, and 6-8 hours of nonstop raking, hoeing and hauling heavy leaf bags of old vegetation are taking their toll on this old body.
My daughter, newly in Oregon, is being battered by those rainstorms too. I like that you have an actual end of season note. It seems we just slide around. But the Tristars are still bearing!
ReplyDeleteThe harvest looks lovely. Don't forget epsom salts!
Stefaneener, your daughter is experiencing much more rain than we are, but we share the wind woes. It's blowing again today, so all my yard cleanup of yesterday is for naught.
DeleteMy Tristar transplants are looking really good, but it goes against my grain to be removing all their blossoms and runners! Hopefully it will make healthy plants for next year, and even more berries!
Wow, what a great year!! Almost 1000 pounds! That's my dream some day! We keep getting close, but I can't ever seem to break that 750 pound mark. Your harvest this week was still really great considering your weather!!
ReplyDeleteStoney, at least we haven't had snow, LOL! I might still hit 100 pounds with tomatoes and peppers left to harvest. I've done it before, with less gardening space.
DeleteYou have had a fabulous season in the garden and this week's harvest proves it again! I really haven't gotten to the fall clean-up yet mainly due to a busy few weeks of social obligations, but my hope is to really get to it this week. I need to work on improving my soil big time and you have given me a number of good ideas about that job. I expect I'll be joining you in the aching body department soon.
ReplyDeleteNutmeg, I have finally run out of composted manure, with a few beds that need it and no way to haul it. I may have to give in and buy a few bags. I'm still burying my kitchen wastes though, and waiting for the neighbor's trees to begin dropping their leaves for chopping into a nice winter mulch. They are all sycamore trees though, and don't usually start shedding leaves until November! Everything I'm removing now stays out of the compost....too seedy or suffering from mildew or late season blights, so it all has to be bagged and set out for the garbage truck.
DeleteYour peppers look great. I can't believe you got a jalepeno to turn colour, I usually don't have a long enough season for that but don't care as they are good green. This year I didn't get a plant though as they didn't have any starter plants at my nursery (next year I'm going to start my own from seed to ensure I get some - they are one of my favourite peppers).
ReplyDeleteBacon, I didn't have many jalapenos that turned color this year. Some were just beginning to show a red blush when I gave the plants away. We're not big on hot peppers here, so most of them go to one of the sons. I mostly just use them in my salsa, and depend on dried hot pepper flakes for heat in my cooked dishes. I can control the heat better that way, because sometimes my jalapenos don't turn out hot at all! Even the ones I bought at our local Mexican market last year were sweet, not hot.
DeleteI love your harvest photos (I'm waiting for them to "rub off on me"!).
ReplyDeleteLOL, Jean. Unfortunately, the harvests are coming to an early halt due to cold weather. I just cannot get this old body excited about gardening when it's under 60F and windy out there! I can only hope the first freeze holds off until the snap peas ripen and I can get the rest of the sweet peppers picked.
DeleteLove the new header. DId you draw those?
ReplyDeleteCloud, it's the same header I used last October, when I had even MORE butternut squash! My daughter did the faces, and I love them. I couldn't improve on it as a header. By the way, those were the under ripe squash, but the all did ripen off the vines, and were eaten.
DeleteWhat a great harvest and unbelievable totals, so far! I wish some of that cool weather would head my way. I did yard work today for several hours and it was well into the high 80's the entire time. I share your soreness, and am currently sitting with a hot rice bag on my lower back!
ReplyDeleteJen, I'd trade you some of that harvest for some of your gorgeous sweet potatoes! I flunked sweet potato growing last year, and didn't try it again.
DeleteIt has been getting down in the 50s now, about 20 degrees below normal. The sun did shine for a bit today, so with two sweaters on I managed to get in half a day's work in the garden. I have one of those rice bags, I forgot all about it! I think I'll be using it tonight. I also have a battery operated massage pillow, but it scares the dogs half to death so I don't dare use it, LOL!
Couldn't live without the rice bag. I use it all the time, even to warm up a cold bed in the "winter", here in FL.
DeleteI know I saw it somewhere in an older post, but can't find it now. What are your favorite sweet red peppers? I can't grow bell peppers to save my life, the snails always eat them while still green. I've had great success with hot peppers and banana type sweet peppers and plan to devote more space to try new varieties of them in the spring. I need to order seeds soon since I have to start my tomatoes and peppers in January (it's my new years day project every year) in order to get them in the ground as soon as the last frost is over in February.
My very favorite big red bell - Quadrato Rosso D'Asti
DeleteNot a bell (elongated Italian pepper), but big, sweet and the only one I can always count on to give me lots and lots of red, ripe peppers - Red Marconi
A good big yellow, not quite as sweet as the red or orange varieties - Quadrato Giallo D'Asti
Not red, but big and sweet - Horizon Orange
The first three can be purchased from Ohio Heirloom Seeds. Good prices, very reasonable shipping charges and great customer service. The Horizon Orange seeds came from Mike the Gardener Seeds of the Month Club.
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