The onions were also dying back, so I pulled them (8.7 oz). They were not very big, which I'm assuming they haven't liked the really warm temperatures either.
Also this week was 6.3 oz of lettuce,
a pathetic 0.7 oz of strawberries,
and the peas (8.4 oz) are on their way out, but the cucumbers (3.6 lbs) are picking up the pace. The basil has also been growing rapidly. I've been good about weighing veggies this year, but not herbs.. perhaps next year.
I also harvested my first squash of the season! (10.5 oz) I'm growing tromboncino squash this year because it is suppose to be resistant to vine borers. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the vine borers stay away from it!
And then there are the potatoes. You may have read about my Solanaceae woes with wilting potatoes. I dug up two of the dead potatoes and was happy to find at least a few potatoes. There was a total of three medium potatoes and a few tiny ones weighing 10 oz. It's not going to be a fabulous potato harvest this spring, but at least there's a few.
Weekly total: 7.6 lbs
Yearly total: 50.63 lbs worth $113.42That's all the harvests coming from my garden this week, to see what others are harvesting check out Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions.
Happy Gardening!
I'm also growing garlic for the first time, so was glad to see your post!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your garlic- first time crops are so exciting!
DeleteI've had trouble with potatoes too. But everything looks great. Enjoy your garlic. I dried mine in the garage and now I have a braid hanging in my kitchen.
ReplyDeleteI don't think potatoes really like warm climates and unfortunately fungus really loves the heat and humidity- not a good combination! I can't wait to cook with my garlic- its drying in the shed for now.
DeleteSome beautiful harvests. So do the tromboncino squash taste as good as zucchini when they are little? I have such trouble with borers in my zucchini. I only grow the C.moschata for winter squash, but never tried that one for the younger type.
ReplyDeleteI plan I trying the first tomboncino squash tonight, so I'll let you know how they taste. Keeping my fingers crossed that they are as good as zucchini.
DeleteFor the most part, those are actually decent sized garlic bulbs. And our onions hardly ever size up larger than what you got, so they looked good to me :)
ReplyDeleteThe cucs and squash look great! We suffer from SVBs as well. We just succumb. We start our squash seeds in the basement very early to plant out the largest transplants possible and let them produce copious (hopefully!) squash until we're sick of eating it and can barely give it away. Then the SVBs move in and it's all over until next year.
I should have mentioned that we only grow C. moschata winter squash as well since they have some resistance to SVBs (mostly, I think, because they set multiple sets of roots down along the vine). Since winter squash takes months to mature, it's really the only option for us if we hope to get any winter squash.
DeleteI need to get my squash started earlier inside because when I try zucchini or yellow squash I only get about a week or two of harvest before the borers kill them. Last year I even lost all but one of my butternuts. I've thought about covering the squash and hand pollinate, but that's way too much work!
DeleteYour harvest is way ahead compared to the harvest in NJ now. Tomatoes and cucumbers are slowly flowering now, here. Sorry to hear about your solanceae woos. Any idea how this fungus appears? I hope I will not get any...keeping fingers crossed as I am growing lots of these solanceae plants.
ReplyDeleteNo clue how the fungus got there- it could have been from the soil I got to fill the raised beds, seedlings I transplanted in the bed, or from the potato tubers. So far all the other solanaceae beds seem to be doing fine. Hopefully I can keep it isolated to this one bed and not plant solanaceae for at least 4 years.
DeleteJust planted my tomatoes last week and cukes the week before, will be a while before any harvest but am hopeful.
ReplyDeleteYou have quite a harvest, cukes are gorgeous.
It all looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteYour garlic looks beautiful. My onions never get very big either but I am often amazed by how lovely they taste.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your Garlic harvest how exciting! I just LOVE garlic and plant more and more each year.
ReplyDeleteNice harvest. :) I love the shape of the big potato, it looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazingly diverse harvest! Good stuff! And your garlic looks great! Not sure ours is going to do much this year...it's looks pretty sad. Ah well, I still have hope :-)
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