Harvest Monday

The summer garden is slowing down now. On Monday we harvested one more cantaloupe and throughout the week we harvested 3 watermelons, several pounds of tomatoes, jalapenos, raspberries, spaghetti squash, and yellow squash.

Today is Belle's big tomato canning day, and we'll both be doing some fall garden planting. We're putting cauliflower and cabbage out that we've been growing indoors under lights.

Harvest Totals

Cantaloupe 7 lb 3 oz
Jalapenos 1 lb
Kale 1 lb
Raspberries 1 lb. 8 oz
Pumpkin Squash 2 lb 8 oz
Spaghetti Squash 2 lb 12 oz
Yellow Squash 8 oz
Tomatoes 8 lb 9 oz
Watermelon 38 lb 7 oz

Weekly Total 63 lb 15 oz

Be sure to stop by Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday and see what other gardeners are harvesting from their gardens this time of year. Happy Labor Day!

This week C. James turned 5! Happy Birthday kiddo. We love you!

Harvest Monday

This week we've been busy having hardly anytime to post. So we'll mix this post for Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday with a some pictures of what's growing and of one thing that is not.


We harvested our regular bit of kale again this week. Believe it or not, it's still going strong.

This is two of about 8 plants we have. They're about 2 feet tall now. If things keep going this way through the summer we'll have tomato8 6 foot tomato stakes for next season!

We also harvested our first handful of potatoes. We only dug up 3 plants. We're waiting until later this week to finish the patch.

Russet Burbank

The last of our spring onions

This week we harvested:

kale 4 lb
potatoes 2lb
onions 3 lb
zucchini 1lb 4 oz
lettuce 1 lb
blackberries 1lb 12 oz
raspberries 1 lb

We also have several things growing.

Our melon patch, 2 watermelon, 2 cantaloupe and 1 honeydew plants

cantaloupe

honeydew

Spaghetti squash

Finally, there is one thing -an acorn tree- that has now stopped growing. 

This was very hard for us do do. We loved that tree.

Please take your hat off to this 30 year old acorn tree that we very reluctantly cut down this week. We've been debating this for years. The tree shades our garden until noon. Our tomatoes don't do so well. On the other hand, our early spring and late fall vegetables thrive. We finally decided to take it down.

I cut it to fall away from the garden, but as it began to crack and lean, it began to lean toward the garden. My heart fell. I stopped cutting, came down from the ladder then thought and stewed about it for while waiting for it to fall on the garden at any moment. Finally I came up with a plan and went back up the ladder. The tree finally came down it missed the garden. I was literally shouting for joy. I think the whole neighborhood heard me.  

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 for Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday we have several things to share.

Our first try at kale chips. They are very light, crispy and incredibly rich.

We harvested lots of kale and made kale chips. We harvested 4 more heads of cabbage, then sowed carrots in the space they left behind. I'll post about pictures of the sauerkraut we made later this week.

Green onion will keep in the fridge for a couple weeks.

We harvested spring onions and we're expecting a huge harvest of summer onions, probably in mid to late July. We also harvested lots of blueberries and raspberries this week.

Tiny radishes we pruned from the row for space. Yummy!

Our very first beet. Bel ate it right up beet, stem and all the leaves. She loves them!

We also harvested lots of blueberries and raspberries.

Bel made delicious strawberry jam.

Weekly harvest totals:
Cabbage 10 lb
Kale 2.5 lb
Onions 1.5 lb
Beets 1 lb
Blueberries around 2 lb
raspberries around 1 lb (It's hard to weigh these because the kids eat them so quickly!)