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Harvest Monday - August 2, 2010
| Posted on August 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM |
Each Monday, Daphne’s Dandelions hosts “Harvest Monday” where everyone submits links to their blog posts summarizing their harvest for the week. It’s fun to see what everyone else is harvesting from gardens in many different regions.
This week I harvested the last of the spring planted broccoli (all side shoot production), the first Russet Burbank potatoes, swiss chard, lettuce, onions, a couple of tomatoes, and lots of zucchini. I also harvested some sugar snap peas, which will be the last from these plants as I am now letting them set seed. I did not get pictures of all the harvests, but here is a good portion of them.
Harvest totals for the week of July 26th through August 1st (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).
- Broccoli 0.50 lbs
- Lettuce 0.25 lbs
- Onions 0.50 lbs
- Peas (sugar snap) 0.25 lbs
- Potatoes 2.25 lbs
- Swiss Chard 1.00 lbs
- Tomatoes 0.75 lbs
- Zucchini 6.25 lbs
Total For Week 11.75 lbs
Total Year To Date 115.00 lbs
Laura
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Categories: Harvesting, Vegetables, Potatoes
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Great harvests. It looks like a nice variety, without having anything overwhelming.
hsheather - It really is a nice steady flow of harvestable items right now. The only thing that is getting a little overwhelming is the zucchini.
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Thomas
09:58 AM on August 02, 2010
Great looking potatoes. Mine are taking forever! I think it will be at least another month before the foliage dies back completely.
How is your fall seed starting coming along?
How is your fall seed starting coming along?
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Robin
12:58 PM on August 02, 2010
You certainly are lucky to have some cool weather and warm weather veggies at the same time! I wish that we had some lettuce to eat with our tomatoes.
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Daphne
02:05 PM on August 02, 2010
A lovely bunch of harvests. It looks like your zukes are going full force. And at least you are getting a tomato or two to go with the lettuce. Lettuce for me is just a distant memory now.
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foodgardenkitchen
05:21 PM on August 02, 2010
The variety coming out of your garden is always so impressive!
Can you believe I am envious of your zucchini? I was overwhelmed last year and decided not to plant much this year. I?ve only harvest two fruit and I am finding I miss them. Yours look so beautiful as does the rest of your harvest.
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thyme2garden
09:48 PM on August 02, 2010
Your harvest is so amazing with a mix of cool and warm weather veggies, and everything looks so healthy and fresh! Your multi-colored swiss chard is so beautiful, too. Would you believe that I only got one zucchini out of my three plants this year before they all died from powdery mildew? You get no sympathy from me for being overwhelmed with your zucchini. 
Thomas - Funny you should ask about the fall crops and seed starting. I took pictures of some work I was doing in the garden on Sunday (all related to fall crops) and I thought I would make that the focus of my mid week blog up date this week - so check back on Thursday morning to find out what is happening on that front!
Robin - It really is kind of rare to have lettuce to go with my tomatoes. Took advantage of it and that harvest of lettuce, onions, and tomatoes were all destined for that evening's meal which was BLT sandwiches on good sour dough bread. Yum!
Daphne - the lettuce is hanging in there quite nicely and the tomatoes are starting to ripen in ones and twos on the Siletz plants. Still a ways off for the other varieties though.
Kelly - the Chard has managed to largely avoid leaf miners this year so it remains quite pretty and very edible.
foodgardenkitchen - Thank you for the compliment! I actually try to keep a nice variety of things growing at any given time because my garden is my grocery store for vegetables. While we are content to eat seasonally, it sure is more enjoyable when there is many things to choose from rather than just one or two.
GrafixMuse - Sure wish you lived closer! I would be delighted to share some of the zucchini bounty with someone else. While I really do love them, it does get a little tiresome when it predominates the harvest for such a long period of time.
thyme2garden - Wish I could share the bounty with you as well! Sorry about the powdery mildew. I am actually surprised I have not had that invade the garden this year, because I noticed it all over the wild raspberries in the area adjacent to a part of the older garden area. So far it has kept away though.
Robin - It really is kind of rare to have lettuce to go with my tomatoes. Took advantage of it and that harvest of lettuce, onions, and tomatoes were all destined for that evening's meal which was BLT sandwiches on good sour dough bread. Yum!
Daphne - the lettuce is hanging in there quite nicely and the tomatoes are starting to ripen in ones and twos on the Siletz plants. Still a ways off for the other varieties though.
Kelly - the Chard has managed to largely avoid leaf miners this year so it remains quite pretty and very edible.
foodgardenkitchen - Thank you for the compliment! I actually try to keep a nice variety of things growing at any given time because my garden is my grocery store for vegetables. While we are content to eat seasonally, it sure is more enjoyable when there is many things to choose from rather than just one or two.
GrafixMuse - Sure wish you lived closer! I would be delighted to share some of the zucchini bounty with someone else. While I really do love them, it does get a little tiresome when it predominates the harvest for such a long period of time.
thyme2garden - Wish I could share the bounty with you as well! Sorry about the powdery mildew. I am actually surprised I have not had that invade the garden this year, because I noticed it all over the wild raspberries in the area adjacent to a part of the older garden area. So far it has kept away though.
That chard is beautiful! I've been tempted to pick some potatoes, can't be long now before they die back.
Dan - I can never wait for the die back to harvest potatoes! Luckily I have enough planted I can do that and still have plenty for the big final potato lift later in the season. My potato plants are starting to lay over and die back - particularly the early and mid season varieties (Yukon Gold and Caribe). I think they will be ready for the big lift around the first part of September again this year.
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mac
12:14 AM on August 03, 2010
Lovely and bountiful harvest as usual.
Every time I see other gardener's potato harvest I want to dig up some of mine, but I'm trying very hard not to think about that for another month hoping the tubers will grow larger. The leaves of my Yukon Gold is beginning to turn yellow, another month, another month, another mmm....................
Every time I see other gardener's potato harvest I want to dig up some of mine, but I'm trying very hard not to think about that for another month hoping the tubers will grow larger. The leaves of my Yukon Gold is beginning to turn yellow, another month, another month, another mmm....................
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Angela
02:12 AM on August 03, 2010
Such abundant harvests! I like how most of those colanders full of veggies can make a complete dish all by themselves.
mac - You show a tremendous amount of self restraint! My Yukon Gold's are laying over now, yellowing, and generally beginning the die back process. Same with the Caribe. The Russet Burbanks are starting to die back but are several weeks behind the two earlier varieties (as they should be!).
Angela - Most of the year that is how my harvests really are - I pick for the evening meal prep so they truly do get used up that night and make either a side dish or the main dish for dinner. During late July, all of August, and most of September, I also get a large amount of surplus sized harvests that are preserved or stored for winter use. So far it has been peas, broccoli, spinach, and celery that have produced for "putting by". The next two surplus crops will be tomatoes and green beans. Followed closely by cucumbers. I need to pull my onions soon too. Once I am back into September the crops slow down again and I am back to the more steady fresh eating mode.
Angela - Most of the year that is how my harvests really are - I pick for the evening meal prep so they truly do get used up that night and make either a side dish or the main dish for dinner. During late July, all of August, and most of September, I also get a large amount of surplus sized harvests that are preserved or stored for winter use. So far it has been peas, broccoli, spinach, and celery that have produced for "putting by". The next two surplus crops will be tomatoes and green beans. Followed closely by cucumbers. I need to pull my onions soon too. Once I am back into September the crops slow down again and I am back to the more steady fresh eating mode.
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vrtlarica
08:39 AM on August 04, 2010
I love the looks of yellow zucchinis. The rest of the harvest looks very good too. I?m jealous of your broccoli, haven?t tasted home grown broccoli in a very, very long time.
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Annie's Granny
08:10 PM on August 04, 2010
Beautiful, and so much variety! Hey, you got lettuce with your tomatoes...can't ask for more than that!
vrtlarica - The prolonged broccoli harvest has been pretty nice this year. Not really the norm but it helps make up for the delay in all the traditional summer crops.
Annies Granny - lettuce WITH the tomatoes is indeed a good thing.
Annies Granny - lettuce WITH the tomatoes is indeed a good thing.
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