Harvest Monday 7/2/12

This week has been miserably hot.  Mostly the past three days have been bad: 104 on Friday, 102 on Saturday, and 104 on Sunday.  Today we are suppose to be at 99.  For some reason 99 seems tolerable, but not anything over 100.  A thunderstorm came last night that brought rain, which was very much needed.  I'm surprised the garden is still alive.  I could only handle the heat for a few minutes before running inside to the air conditioning.  If I was a plant, I would have given up and died in such heat!

Anyway, enough whining about the weather and on to the harvests!  I pulled another carrot (2.4 oz), which was thicker than the last one, but not very long.  I'm trying to decide whether to go ahead and pull the carrots or leave them.  The heat is definitely not making for a sweet carrot.

Also this week I harvested 3.9 lbs of cucumbers.  Mostly the lemon cucumbers have been producing while the Persian cucumbers are looking sad and pathetic.  The heat may have been the last blow to the tired looking cucumber plants.  

The peppers seemed to have thrived in the heat.  I picked 7 oz of banana peppers and 7 oz of bell peppers- all the purple variety.  Only the yellow pear tomatoes (2.3 oz) have been slowly ripening, the rest of the tomatoes are sitting there pretty and green.  I'm hoping the combination of rain and heat will encourage them to ripen- hopefully it wasn't too much heat!  I also harvested 13.2 oz of the  Spooky Little eggplant and 8.8 oz of tromboncino squash.

Last was a harvest of green beans (1.3 lbs).  The green beans have grown to the top of the trellis, which is ten feet tall.  I obviously wasn't thinking about harvesting when putting in 10 ft trellises because I can't even reach the top with my little step stool!  In an attempt to pick beans and climb a not too sturdy trellis, I had a watermelon tragedy.  I accidentally broke off a baby watermelon (bottom left in the pictures)!  I cut it open and it was still completely white on the inside... sad. 

I was hoping to reach 100 lbs this week, but not quite there.  June was a productive month, by far the most productive month this year with 45 lbs.  Hopefully the next few months can be just as productive. 

Weekly total:  7.73 lbs

Yearly total: 93.24 lbs worth $179.47

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!