Harvest Monday

Do you remember these spindly looking things from Harvest Monday last week?

We thought they were all this way. But Belle gave them a closer inspection and this is what she found!

More than 15 pounds of sweet potatoes!

And this is what we made for dinner!

That's some of the apple wine we brewed this year. We weren't supposed to open it until December, but it's already very tasty!

Grilling sweet potato slices for a salad dish.

Grilled Sweet Potato Salad for the main dish with romaine salad as a side.

Belle made Grilled Sweet Potato Salad with feta cheese, orange bell peppers, tomatoes and a bunch of other stuff. We thought we had eaten all our homegrown chicken, but we found one last piece that went great with this meal. We also had garden fresh romaine salad. And do you know what the best thing was about this meal? The kids liked it too!

Sorry, I'm not posting from home so I have no harvest totals this week. I would estimate we gathered around 25 pounds. We picked romaine lettuce, beans, sweet potatoes, jalapeno peppers,onions, carrots, tomatoes and a volunteer tube of potatoes that we didn't even know was in the garden!


Be sure to stop by Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Monday, where gardeners around the world are sharing their harvests.

Harvest Monday

You have to look closely, but a volunteer Vivian romaine plant is there between the kale and arugula.

The highlight of our Harvest Monday with Daphne's Dandelions is a single volunteer romaine plant. At the end of May we harvested what we thought was the last of the spring romaine. This little guy was a complete surprise! He'll make a nice salad for lunch today.

Last Tuesday we harvested more kale and radishes. On Wednesday it was our first carrot. On Thursday it was even more radishes and a bit of arugula. On Friday we gathered raspberries (we've been gathering raspberries all week). Then on Saturday we harvested our first peaches and a single zucchini. Finally, on Sunday we harvested green leaf lettuce. Sometime during the week we harvested a single jalapeno pepper.

Of the six trees we have, this one always ripens first. The fruit is very fragile and small. We usually get just a few peaches. Maybe it's a Georgia peach tree, not meant for Pennsylvania. Who knows? We inherited it. The rest of the trees won't ripen for several weeks.

Bel made an 8 foot bean trellis earlier this week. The vines are climbing quickly.

romaine 12 oz
green leaf lettuce 1 lb
arugula 4 oz
kale 3 lb 12 oz
Radishes 1 lb 14 oz
Raspberries 1 lb 4 oz
blackberries 6 oz
Carrots 1 lb
Zucchini 1 lb
peaches 1 lb 6 oz
1 jalapeno pepper

Harvest Monday

 This week we for Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday we gathered 2 more ounces of asparagus and 3.5 ounces of romaine.  The romaine will make a nice salad for dinner.

We planted this little garden right next to our back door on March 18th. It suffered several freezing nights and frost but is now thriving!  From the left we have onions (against the wall), spinach, cabbage, kale and romaine. The romaine is about 6 or 7 inches tall now.