Harvest Monday 8/27/12

The summer crops are still chugging along, but at a much slower rate.  The melons are withering away and I probably only have one more to pick (or for the squirrels to pick, depending who gets to it first!).  I pulled the rest of the carrots to make room for fall crops.  The smaller carrots were alright, but the bigger ones are really bitter.  I may start growing carrots in the fall and winter only.  They tend to be much sweeter than the carrots that grew through the heat of summer. 

I wasn't much of a photographer this week, but I do have one picture of Saturday's harvests:

Carrots: 15.2 oz
Banana pepper: 0.8 oz
Bell pepper: 8.4 oz
Yellow pear tomatoes: 1.5 lbs
Tomatoes: 1.6 lbs
Green beans: 11.2 oz
Watermelon: 6.9 lbs

Weekly total: 12.2 lbs

Yearly total: 191.94 lbs worth $311.55

That'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!

Harvest Monday 8/20/12

Time keeps getting away from me.  My every other week harvest reports are becoming a habit!  I went to visit family in Tennessee and then before I knew it the semester began.

Here`s some highlights from the last 2 weeks:

A yummy watermelon!

  Purple peppers with yellow pear tomatoes:

A typical harvest:

Another basket from the garden:

A pile of basil that turned into pesto:

Two week tally:

Carrots 3.3 lbs
Cucumbers 1.7 lbs
Banana pepper 0.6 lbs
Bell pepper 1.5 lbs
Yellow pear tomatoes 1.1 lbs
Eggplant 2.4 oz
Green beans 0.85 lbs
Watermelon 8.2 lbs
Tomatoes 2.1 lbs
Butternut 1 lb
Banana melon 1.9 lbs

Two week total: 22.56 lbs

Yearly total: 179.71 lbs worth $299.30

That'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!

Harvest Monday 8/6/12

I missed last week's harvest Monday, so today I have two weeks to report. The theme over the past two weeks has been tomatoes, melons, and green beans.. oh my!

The tomatoes have slowed down a bit.  I'm hoping they're just taking a break and will pick up the pace because I want more sauce and roasted tomatoes.  I can't seem to get enough and I'm plotting how I can have two beds of tomatoes next year. 

The little melon in the picture is a honeydew.  The vine died so it wasn't going to get any bigger.

Despite its small size, it was ripe and yummy on the inside:

I harvested lots of beans (4 lbs).  They've been producing since the end of June and seem to keep on going.  I also harvested some cucumbers, eggplant, squash, peppers, and a sugar baby melon- keeping my fingers crossed that this one is sweet and ripe.

Here's the two week tally:

Carrots 0.6 oz
Cucumber 1.96 lbs
Tromboncino squash 1.04 lbs
Banana peppers 1.7 oz
Bell pepper 1.88 lbs
Yellow pear tomatoes 2.24 lbs
Eggplant 1.01 lbs
Green beans 4.18 lbs
Watermelon 3.95 lbs
Tomatoes 5.05 lbs
Honeydew 1.06 lbs

Two week total: 22.51 lbs

Yearly total: 157.15 lbs worth $272.65

That'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!