We've been so busy with a new schedule because Belle went back to work. Blogging has had to take a back seat lately. It's not just blogging that we're behind on. Our cold frames should be full of lettuce plants, the garlic should be planted and the cover crops should be green and lush. None of that is done. We had our first hard frost last week, but I'm not giving up. We do have lettuce in the "spring garden" next to the kitchen. We're overwintering lots of carrots and a few leeks and the potato patch has a good cover crop of beans and peas. We still have lots of fall broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower to harvest. It's turning out to be a very busy, but good year!
This week's
Harvest Monday covers 3 weeks.These 3 weeks were the last 3 of the strong gardening season for our area. Last week we had our first heavy frost.
We finished our tomatoes 3 weeks ago. This is the last of them. (Please ignore the date on the pictures. I keep meaning to change that!)
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| Belgium Beauty! Our favorite beefstake this year. |
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| Maybe 5 pounds that will become tomato sauce and tomato juice. |
We also picked and pulled our peppers. This was what we got.
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| Since we picked these, they've turned red in our window. We also found a stray sweet potato. and a few tomatoes are hiding below. |
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| Lots of jalapenos! |
To our surprise, we uncovered another watermelon and some cantaloupe.
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| The more yellow fruit is a yellow squash we found hiding in the weeds, I mean in the garden. |
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| Belle found this hiding in our fall broccoli patch! It's probably 8 pounds. |
Last but not least, we picked at least 10 more pounds of beans. Our freezer is packed with them. The boys love them. The garden is happy about the cover crop. We're good to go!
Sorry no weight totals. We reached our goal and have gotten lazy with the scale. How
sad is that?
Happy gardening everyone!
I just stumbled across your blog! wow what a great harvest! This will be my first summer with my full sized veggie patch so hoping the Australian summer sun gives be a beauty harvest like yours!
ReplyDeleteHi Nathalie, thanks for stopping by and for following us. I hope you have a great summer garden. We do enjoy gardening. There's nothing like homegrown food!
DeleteWhat a great year you two have had! I understand about the weighing thing. It does take time. There are a lot of things that I don't get around to weighing.
ReplyDeleteSo, how many watermelon plants are you planning on next year??? :)
Oh my gosh! Believe it or not, we're down to just two melons. We took watermelon to parties, we cut it for friends, we ate it at home. It's almost gone!
DeleteWow that is a lot of beans. I have very few frozen this year. My early beans didn't do as well as usual and the late beans don't seem to freeze well.
ReplyDeleteThis is our first season of fall beans. We'll see how they taste after freezing...
DeleteSometimes life gets quite busy and the blog just has to take a back seat. Your harvests were great this past week though... so many beans, the last of the tomatoes, peppers and even some melons! Good work. :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura.
Deletevery nice harvest! Love the melons and green beans, and those tomatoes are very big!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny. We're glad things are slowing down.
DeleteYou have had a very productive garden year and that is a great end of the year harvest. I love your new profile photo!
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