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Harvest Monday - August 16, 2010
| Posted on August 15, 2010 at 10:01 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 look at what everyone else is harvesting from gardens in so many different growing regions.
This week the green beans were ready to start harvesting. I picked a couple of small harvests of them for evening meal prep, and then did a larger picking on Saturday, which was blanched and put in the freezer. Still getting a tremendous amount of zucchini and amazingly enough - crisp sweet lettuce! Weighed the onions on Sunday that I harvested the prior Sunday. They were drying down all week and are now ready for storage and weighing. I am pretty sure I picked a tomato this last week as well, but never got it recorded or took a picture of it so it is missing in action.
I did not get pictures of all the harvests, but here is a good portion of them.
Harvest totals for the week of August 9th through August 15th (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).
- Green Beans 2.50 lbs
- Carrots 0.25 lbs
- Cucumbers 0.25 lbs
- Lettuce 0.25 lbs
- Onions 9.25 lbs
- Potatoes 1.00 lbs
- Zucchini 4.25 lbs
Total For Week 17.75 lbs
Total Year To Date 141.50 lbs
Laura
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Categories: Harvesting, Vegetables
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Thomas
08:36 AM on August 16, 2010
Those purple string beans looks beautiful! They look nice and slender - just how I like them. Does the yellow zucchini taste any different than the green varieties?
It will be at least a couple of more weeks before we start harvesting lettuce again. I can't waiting for the fall growing season!
It will be at least a couple of more weeks before we start harvesting lettuce again. I can't waiting for the fall growing season!
Such beautiful colors! I'm hoping those tomatoes make a major appearance for you soon. Everything else looks wonderful!
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debiclegg
11:23 AM on August 16, 2010
Nice Harvest! I have never seen yellow zucchini before. Does it taste as good as it looks?
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Daphne
04:26 PM on August 16, 2010
Lettuce is such a distant memory to me right now. Usually I don't have any for a few weeks in August but I think I lost it i June this year. It looks so tasty.
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mac
07:28 PM on August 16, 2010
Lettuce and potatoes envy as usual, I finally manage to get some lettuce growing in shade, they are some kind of Italian variety with no specific name to it, the packet says this lettuce will grow year round, I'm waiting to see if it will grow in the heat.
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thyme2garden
10:39 PM on August 16, 2010
Could your purple beans get any more purple? That's a really beautiful shade of deep purple. I see that you trimmed your carrots with a few inches of green tops still attached - are the green parts edible? I just lopped mine off - I hope I didn't inadvertently toss away something that might have been actually edible!
Thomas - I tend to pick the first green beans on the young side as I am anxious to get the harvest under way and even more anxious to get fresh beans on the menu again! I start waiting longer between harvests after the initial few pickings are behind me and the beans get bigger as a result.
hsheather - I'm hoping the tomatoes get with the program soon too. Our little mini heat wave is about to leave us tomorrow and by next weekend we are forecasted to be back to cool and damp. (sigh) Oh well, everything else is coming along nicely.
debiclegg - The yellow zucchini is called "Gold Rush" and it has been a good performer for me for the three years that I have grown it now. Yes, the cook and taste pretty much exactly like their green counterparts but the skin is a little more "waxy" feeling which I think helps it retain it's shape and color better when cooked.
foodgardenkitchen - The daily harvests have been quite nice this summer. We have not had the summer glut really this year but the steady harvest has been good and with great variety to it.
Daphne - I am rather astounded that I have essentially had lettuce available all growing season so far. It really speaks to how cool and mild our summer has been.
mac - And I have tomato and pepper envy for all of you that have heat enough to get a good harvest of either - as we are in green fruit mode here for both! I guess
we each should revel in the things that really do grow well for us in a given year and our growing environment.
thyme2garden - the purple beans really look dark in two of those photos because I rinsed them off prior to taking the picture and the water made the purple hue even deeper. They really are a pretty bean though. On the carrots, I just trim the bulk of the tops off while I am standing in the garden close to the compost pile so that I am not weighing mostly unedible tops and so that I do not have to put so much into my little compost container in the kitchen when trimming vegetables for cooking. The tops are not edible (at least not to my knowledge!) I just leave the top portion on though until I am ready to use them - so that the inside of the carrot does not start drying out at the cut. .
hsheather - I'm hoping the tomatoes get with the program soon too. Our little mini heat wave is about to leave us tomorrow and by next weekend we are forecasted to be back to cool and damp. (sigh) Oh well, everything else is coming along nicely.
debiclegg - The yellow zucchini is called "Gold Rush" and it has been a good performer for me for the three years that I have grown it now. Yes, the cook and taste pretty much exactly like their green counterparts but the skin is a little more "waxy" feeling which I think helps it retain it's shape and color better when cooked.
foodgardenkitchen - The daily harvests have been quite nice this summer. We have not had the summer glut really this year but the steady harvest has been good and with great variety to it.
Daphne - I am rather astounded that I have essentially had lettuce available all growing season so far. It really speaks to how cool and mild our summer has been.
mac - And I have tomato and pepper envy for all of you that have heat enough to get a good harvest of either - as we are in green fruit mode here for both! I guess
we each should revel in the things that really do grow well for us in a given year and our growing environment.
thyme2garden - the purple beans really look dark in two of those photos because I rinsed them off prior to taking the picture and the water made the purple hue even deeper. They really are a pretty bean though. On the carrots, I just trim the bulk of the tops off while I am standing in the garden close to the compost pile so that I am not weighing mostly unedible tops and so that I do not have to put so much into my little compost container in the kitchen when trimming vegetables for cooking. The tops are not edible (at least not to my knowledge!) I just leave the top portion on though until I am ready to use them - so that the inside of the carrot does not start drying out at the cut. .
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thyme2garden
11:40 PM on August 16, 2010
Your explanation for leaving some of the green tops on totally makes sense! I like the idea of the greens not drying out the inside of the carrots. Plus the little bit of greens also make your carrots look prettier when they are photographed. :-)
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stefaneener
12:50 AM on August 17, 2010
Those beans are really pretty. Do you find the yellow zucchs any more tender than the green? Are they as prolific?
thyme2garden - I think they are kind of cute that way too!
stefaneener - I actually think the yellow zuchinnis are a little firmer than green zucchinis - at least this variety is because the skin has a waxy feel that seems to hold up better in cooking (firmer). As to prolific, if this year is the comparator -no. My green zuchinnis are the ones that are swamping me this year. However, the prior two year's my yellows outperformed the green zucchinis handily. I like a little of both but I planted too many of both this year!
stefaneener - I actually think the yellow zuchinnis are a little firmer than green zucchinis - at least this variety is because the skin has a waxy feel that seems to hold up better in cooking (firmer). As to prolific, if this year is the comparator -no. My green zuchinnis are the ones that are swamping me this year. However, the prior two year's my yellows outperformed the green zucchinis handily. I like a little of both but I planted too many of both this year!
This is one of the few years I have struggled to keep "regular" salad lettuce growing in August. I finally have a nice bunch going now but it has been missing from our salads for a couple weeks, between heat related germination issues and slugs eating the new seedlings it has been quite a battle. I'm happy to see that yours are doing well, I was going to ask if you always have luck with your lettuce during August but I just noticed your answer to Daphne.
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Ottawa Gardener
03:00 PM on August 17, 2010
I never post pictures of all my harvests but for a partial record, that's a pretty descent harvest!
The purple beans are nice. Are they a bush variety? To bad you can't get a purple bean that stays purple when cooked.
Mike - Usually I have a couple of weeks the end of July and into August where the lettuce is missing but there is so much other items coming from the garden that the lettuce is only mildly missed. This year we have had it straight through, although my fall seeding did not germinate well, so I need to do another planting of it quickly or we WILL have a gap soon.
Ottawa Gardener - It actually feels like a smallish harvest to me because usually we are in the big summer glut harvest by now. It is coming though, the beans are producing well now and the runner beans and pole beans are coming along right behind the bush beans so I should have plenty to harvest in the weeks to come.
Dan - They are a bush variety - Royal Burgundy. The bush bean though has an almost half runner bean feel to it though with a top growth tendril that is longer and more "viney" than I am used to seeing on a true bush bean. I don't mind that they change color to green as the benefit to me of the purple is that they are easier to see to pick in the patch!
Ottawa Gardener - It actually feels like a smallish harvest to me because usually we are in the big summer glut harvest by now. It is coming though, the beans are producing well now and the runner beans and pole beans are coming along right behind the bush beans so I should have plenty to harvest in the weeks to come.
Dan - They are a bush variety - Royal Burgundy. The bush bean though has an almost half runner bean feel to it though with a top growth tendril that is longer and more "viney" than I am used to seeing on a true bush bean. I don't mind that they change color to green as the benefit to me of the purple is that they are easier to see to pick in the patch!
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