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Harvest Monday - September 6, 2010

Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM

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!          

        

There were no singular large harvests this week. Instead, I harvested a nice variety of items and our menu was quite varied as a result.    I got enough cucumbers that I can make a ½ batch of our favorite dill pickle relish today (Labor Day - Monday).     Wish I had more to make a full batch but the weather went really cool and wet again and I am feeling lucky to get the cucumber harvest I have.                          

       

I did not get pictures of all the harvests, but here is a good portion of them.   

 

  

     

       

 

   

     

    

  

  

   

Harvest totals for the week of August 30th through September 5th (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).

Green Beans 2.50 lbs

Celery 1.50 lbs

Corn 0.25 lbs

Cucumbers 4.00 lbs

Herbs (dill) 0.25 lbs

Potatoes 2.25 lbs

Rhubarb 0.75 lbs

Spinach 0.25 lbs

Tomatoes 2.50 lbs

Zucchini 2.00 lbs

Total For Week 16.25 lbs

Total Year To Date 191.75 lbs                               

         

As of Sunday (September 5th) we now have five young hens laying eggs and we got 24 eggs for the week. There is only one of the six that is not laying yet, and I think she will start up too very soon.    Here's a picture of just two days worth of egg collections.             

          

   

    

Happy Gardening and Harvesting!               

 

Laura

kitsapfreedomgardener

Categories: Harvesting, Vegetables, Chickens

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11 Comments

Reply michelle
01:22 PM on September 06, 2010 
It's good to see that you're getting some ripe tomatoes! And lovely spinach, no problems with bolting this summer, hmmmm. That is a nice variety of stuff that you got for the week. What kind of chickens do you have?
Reply vrtlarica
03:34 PM on September 06, 2010 
Beautiful collection of harvests. Tomatoes look perfect! It is very interesting to have in the same week tomato and spinach harvests, as they prefer different weather and temperatures.
24 eggs in a week - that is a lot. I wouldn't know what to do with that many eggs.
Reply villager
04:43 PM on September 06, 2010 
That's a nice variety of things there. Having spinach, tomatoes, cukes and squash all at once is a nice feat!
Reply miss m
04:51 PM on September 06, 2010 
Your veggies look terrific ! Too bad about the weather cutting the cuke season short. Will make that half batch all the more precious and enjoyable. Fresh eggs, what a treat ! Great harvest !
Reply hsheather
08:34 PM on September 06, 2010 
Tomatoes!!! You must be thrilled! The eggs are wonderful. I'm sure your girls are enjoying all the left overs and odds and ends from the garden. Great harvests this week.
Reply kitsapfreedomgardener
09:04 PM on September 06, 2010 
michelle - No worries about bolting, the weather is damp and cool (actually it has been like that all summer!) and as the daylength is decreasing rather than increasing - bolting is actually not nearly as much of a problem with the fall crop if spinach compared to the spring planted crop. The chickens are black sexlinks.

vrtlarica - The spinach is just getting started and the tomatoes are struggling to ripen in the very cool conditions we are having this summer - and now as we head into fall. This is one of those crossover times where I am getting both summer and cool season crops to harvest. It's actually quite enjoyable because you can have tomatoes with a lettce or spinach salad.

villager - The weather this year definitely made it possible to get the cool and warm season crops to produce relatively simulataneously.

miss m - I should still get more cukes out of the patch before the weather really get's cold, but it definitely has slowed down again wiht the cool temps. I did get 3/4 of a recipe of the dill pickle relish made - which is actually more than enough for a one year supply so I am pretty content with what I was able to pull in.

hsheather - Between the tomatoes I pulled in and ripened off the vine, and the ones I have picked ripe over the past week - I accumulated enough to do a small batch of tomato sauce today. Wish it were more, but it was good to get at least a few pints of tomato products into the pantry.
Reply Daphne
06:55 AM on September 07, 2010 
That is a lot of eggs to be eating. I think we would be eating a lot of quiche if we had so much. Though I'm sure my friends would take any extras off my hands.
Reply Mike
09:17 AM on September 07, 2010 
Our cucumbers have also started to succumb to the cold, I had just enough to can away to my hearts content and now the rest will be destined for the refrigerator. It appears as though you have another fine harvest, and look how good your spinach looks already. Do you remember what variety the tomatoes in your first two pictures are? They are of a size that I really enjoy working with and have such a dark red color. Are they the Siltz that you are growing?
Reply kitsapfreedomgardener
11:30 PM on September 07, 2010 
Daphne - We both eat eggs for breakfast about every other day (cereal or something else on the alternate days) and routinely eat boiled eggs for snacks and sliced on green salads plus egg salad, quiche, stratas, and soufle's are just a few of the ways we plan to use eggs at least once a week to replace a meat entree for the evening meal. If we still have extras, I know of several people who have already volunteered to take the extras off our hands!

Mike - That spinach is quite tasty. Harvested another big colander full of it tonight to make one of my favorite Thai dishes for dinner - boneless/skinless chicken pieces in a spicy peanut sauce served over a bed of wilted spinach with cooked rice on the side. Yum! The tomatoes in the first two pictures are indeed Siletz. The third picture with the not quite ripe fruits includes a Market Miracle, a small Early Girl, and yet another Siletz.
Reply Thomas
10:03 AM on September 08, 2010 
Those cukes are the perfect size for making pickles! I think I gave too many of our cucumbers away this year. I really should have put more effort into growing them. Do you have a favorite pickling variety?
Reply kitsapfreedomgardener
12:37 AM on September 09, 2010 
Thomas - Alibi is probably my favorite pickling cuke. I have had others produce admirably too but Alibi is a reliable producer. I pick them while still fairly small because I prefer the really crisp quality to them. I also find they keep producing better if you pick young and often.