Harvest Monday

It's that time again, when many gardeners in many places post their weekly harvests for us to see! Stop by Daphne's Dandelions and see what all the fuss is about.

We harvested tomatoes, peppers, egg plant, okra, jalapeno peppers, watermelon,beans and squash. Everything we harvested is pictured in that first picture on the table below. Now the real work begins. Processing! Our post about that will have to wait for Thursday's Kitchen Cupboard hosted by Robin.

Our cherry tomato harvests this week is slowing down. We probably gathered around 2 or 3 pounds. Belle simply roasts them, freezes them and then adds them to whatever in the winter.

 We don't know what variety these larger beefsteak tomatoes are. It was a volunteer. No, Belle tells me that she planted it there, only she forgot what the variety was. We know it's an heirloom. The flesh is pinkish. The fruit is very large. Even though we don't know what it is, we're still going to save seeds, 'cause they're great!

Congo Watermelon weighing it at just over 16 lbs.

We planted several roma tomato varieties. We have a list that will tells us which varieties are which, but we'll have to sort them out later. For now, we're just happy they're producing so well. It's gotten colder this week. Much colder. We wonder what that will do to the plants.

 Lot's of eggplant. We have 4 varieties. Belle's been making Eggplant Parmesan, vegetable paninis, adding it to spaghetti sauce and grilling it in an olive oil soy sauce marinade.

 We harvested plenty of spaghetti butternut squash this week! The boys helped mom haul it up.

beans 1 lb 11 oz
egg plant 7 lb 7 oz
Jalapeno 1 lb 1 oz
okra 1 lb 9 oz
peppers 3 lb 9 oz
squash 45 lb 8 oz
tomatoes 46 lb 9 oz
watermelon 16 lb 5 oz

Weekly Total 123 lb 11 oz