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Harvest Monday - August 30, 2010
| Posted on August 29, 2010 at 9:09 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 so many different regions. Check it out and join in!
This week was not a particularly heavy harvest week but I had surplus green beans, which I froze, and the rest of the harvest was a nice variety of items. I picked several Siletz tomatoes that had broken color that I brought into the house to finish ripening. The zucchini are still producing at a nice pace but nothing like what they were pumping out earlier in the summer. The cucumbers are steadily increasing in production and if the weather does not go too cold too soon, I should get a good harvest out of them before the summer garden season concludes. Harvested the first two small ears of corn this week as well.
Two crops that are getting a second wind but were not in my harvests this week are the celery and the rhubarb. The rhubarb was not thriving this spring and so I did not harvest very much from it, but it has bounced back with a vengeance and is looking really good. I plan to harvest some soon to make a rhubarb pie.
The celery is also waking up and putting some more new growth on. I will be harvesting more of this soon as well – to finish stocking up my freezer supply.
I did not get pictures of all the harvests this week, but here is a good portion of them.
Harvest totals for the week of August 23rd through August 29th (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).
- Green Beans 4.75 lbs
- Carrots 0.25 lbs
- Corn 0.25 lbs
- Cucumbers 0.75 lbs
- Lettuce 0.25 lbs
- Peppers 0.25 lbs
- Potatoes 1.75 lbs
- Tomatoes 6.25 lbs
- Zucchini 2.75 lbs
Total For Week 17.25 lbs
Total Year To Date 175.50 lbs
We now have two hens laying regularly and we harvested 11 eggs this week. I noticed another young hen trying on one of the nest boxes for size today, so I would not be surprised if we get a third producing shortly.
Happy Gardening and Harvesting!
Laura
kitsapfreedomgardener
Categories: Harvesting, Vegetables, Chickens
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I wonder if I should have left my bean plants in the ground for a longer period, they would probably produce some more.
-Brenda
Sense of Home - You should give the purple podded beans a try! I am glad I planted them this year as they are easy to see to pick and have been productive - and tasty too!
Mike - My rhubarb was looking bedraggled this spring and it was really worrying me that something was wrong with them. I am happy to see them return to real vigorous health again. Rhubarb pie sounds good to me too - one of my favorites in fact! How old are your hens by the way?
Thomas - My cukes and zukes are just chugging along this year. The cucumbers could use a few warm days to mature the big bunch of fruit on the plants but I think we will get a few of those in the next week or so and I am hopeful of getting a big harvest out of them before the cold weather takes them down for the year.
foodgardenkitchen - We eat eggs regularly. Breakfast several days a week is eggs and toast (alternated with cereals on the other days). We also use them for making egg salad, potato salad, quiches, stratas, homemade mayonaiise, all sorts of baked goods recipes, and much more. We are trying to reduce the amount of meat we consume weekly and egg and dairy are a great way to get animal proteins without so much meat consumption.
Sandy - I honestly think it was a response to the prolonged cool/cloudy summer conditions we had. The rhubarb rallied after we got that brief spell of warm and sunny weather.
GrafixMuse - I am totally jazzed about the increased egg production. It's like finding treasure every day in my own backyard!
Daphne - With your green thumb, celery will not be a problem. The key is to give them beautiful soil (rich and humousy) and don't let them dry out (ever).
hsheather - Stay tuned! I will be doing the big potato lift in just a few short weeks. Maybe as soon as the Labor day weekend, but probably (more likely) the weekend after. I am curious to see what the end result of production is per square foot of planting area occupied too. I think it is going to be good - but one never knows until you do the big dig.
Dan - It is pretty awesome to add eggs to our homestead's food production list. They taste mighty good too.
stefaneener - I love the look of the purple podded beans too. I like them even better because I can see the purple pods more easily in the patch - which makes picking easier.
Those potatoes look tasty. My attempt at growing them failed pretty early in the year. The stems got too spindly, I hadn't covered them well enough, and a wind storm came through and snapped them all. Oh well, there's always next year!
Mike - Thanks for the info. We were planning to rotate in a few new chicks in the third year and do that each third year thereafter to try and keep the flock at a steady size and production and mix up the ages. I just need to do more research on how to safely integrate new birds into an established flock.
michelle - You got to love those beans. They feed us well every year and are one of the performers this year despite the miserable summer we have had.
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What's Available For Harvest?
The following items are currently available for harvest in our Modern Victory Garden:
(Last Update - February 4, 2012)
- Beets
- Celery
- Corn Salad (mache)
- Kale
- Lettuces
- Onions (green/salad)
- Swiss Chard
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