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Harvest Monday - September 13, 2010
| Posted on September 13, 2010 at 12:24 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!
This week’s harvest was dominated by the big potato patch lift. You can check out the video of the harvest in the blog post just prior to this one. I did not get pictures of all the harvests, but here is most of them.
Harvest totals for the week of September 6th through September 12th (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).
- Beans (Runner/Pole) 1.25 lbs
- Cucumbers 2.00 lbs
- Peppers 1.00 lbs
- Potatoes 147.00 lbs
- Spinach 0.50 lbs
- Tomatoes 1.50 lbs
- Zucchini 3.25 lbs
Total For Week 156.50 lbs
Total Year To Date 348.25 lbs
Eggs harvested this week - 31
Laura
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Categories: Harvesting, Vegetables, Potatoes
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miss m
09:22 AM on September 13, 2010
Just watched the video. I'll say, you definitely got an amazing lot of potatoes ! Will have to try the JJ method one of these days. I'm enviously eyeing that baby spinach. Nice harvest !
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Sense of Home
09:30 AM on September 13, 2010
That is a lot of potatoes! Everything looks very good.
-Brenda
-Brenda
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Carol@KeepingUpWith
09:55 AM on September 13, 2010
WOW! I love your potatoes. I hope to grow some this year - I believe I plant them in January here in Florida. Amazing, amazing garden.
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Daphne
10:59 AM on September 13, 2010
Goodness. You've almost had half your weight total from the potatoes this year. It was a very nice potato year for you.
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balcony/paradise
05:25 PM on September 13, 2010
Love the wheelbarrow full of potatoes! Amazing!
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michelle
06:32 PM on September 13, 2010
woohoo, 147 pounds of potatoes! They certainly didn't mind the weather this summer! What's yor favorite way to cook them?
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thyme2garden
08:55 PM on September 13, 2010
Will all those potatoes keep until next year? Do you have to do anything special to cure them, or just let them air dry?
Your third picture has some beautiful deep red frillies - are they lettuce? I didn't see it included in your harvest, so I'm curious!
Your third picture has some beautiful deep red frillies - are they lettuce? I didn't see it included in your harvest, so I'm curious!
miss m - The baby spinach has been a real treat after having it be off the menu for a few months. I have another patch of it coming along behind the big one and between the two of them should keep us in fresh spinach for quite a while.
Sense of Home - That is indeed a lot of potatoes - but it is our year supply of them until next year's new potatoes are available.
Carol - Never gardened in Florida so I have no sense of the planting schedules there but potatoes are a good crop to include in most gardens.
Daphne - Yes, I knew my poundage would go up in a hurry with the potato harvest. Normally the tomatoes add a lot to it too - but not this year. I have the pumpkins that will be harvested later this fall which will give it another big boost along with all of the ongoing harvest items.
balcony/paradise - I think this is my biggest potato harvest yet and I did it with less square footage of garden space then I have been using in recent years.
michelle - Potatoes are good in so many ways, but I am rather partial to hash browns (crispy fried), potato salad, and beautiful creamy mashed potatoes. We also use them in au gratin and scalloped potatoes, funeral potatoes, and other potato based casseroles. The best though is beautiful crisp/browned potatoes. Our breakfast on Sunday was crisp hash brown potatoes with some chopped up onions in it served with a couple of eggs cooked over easy that had been harvested the day before from our hens. Tthe entire meal was from our backyard... and so good!
thyme2garden - the short answer is yes they will keep until late spring if given the proper storage environment. However, even the best storage will not keep them forever, and eventually they will start to send out new growth and shrivel and become unedible. The storage conditions need to be just right to maximize their longevisty in storage. Cool, dark, not wet but with some humidity in the air. I store them in covered/ventilated boxes layered with some shredded paper in our damp cool and dark garage on a shelf. We have a pumphouse heater that will kick on in the garage if the temps dips close to freezing which keeps them from actually getting frozen (a no no) but otherwise it is unheated and stays very cool from fall until spring. The majority of the curing process is done under ground by not harvesting them until the vegetation dies back and the skins toughen up. I just let them dry a bit before storing and that's it. I never wash them though before storing as getting them all wet is not a good idea. The deep red frillies are indeed some lettuce - just enough to use for that evening meal (hamburgers or tacos I cannot remember which now!) but was negligible in weight so it is not in the tally. I only weigh to the nearest quarter pound and something that falls at 1/8th or less is just not included. I am too lazy to try and track and convert every ounce of produce.
Sense of Home - That is indeed a lot of potatoes - but it is our year supply of them until next year's new potatoes are available.
Carol - Never gardened in Florida so I have no sense of the planting schedules there but potatoes are a good crop to include in most gardens.
Daphne - Yes, I knew my poundage would go up in a hurry with the potato harvest. Normally the tomatoes add a lot to it too - but not this year. I have the pumpkins that will be harvested later this fall which will give it another big boost along with all of the ongoing harvest items.
balcony/paradise - I think this is my biggest potato harvest yet and I did it with less square footage of garden space then I have been using in recent years.
michelle - Potatoes are good in so many ways, but I am rather partial to hash browns (crispy fried), potato salad, and beautiful creamy mashed potatoes. We also use them in au gratin and scalloped potatoes, funeral potatoes, and other potato based casseroles. The best though is beautiful crisp/browned potatoes. Our breakfast on Sunday was crisp hash brown potatoes with some chopped up onions in it served with a couple of eggs cooked over easy that had been harvested the day before from our hens. Tthe entire meal was from our backyard... and so good!
thyme2garden - the short answer is yes they will keep until late spring if given the proper storage environment. However, even the best storage will not keep them forever, and eventually they will start to send out new growth and shrivel and become unedible. The storage conditions need to be just right to maximize their longevisty in storage. Cool, dark, not wet but with some humidity in the air. I store them in covered/ventilated boxes layered with some shredded paper in our damp cool and dark garage on a shelf. We have a pumphouse heater that will kick on in the garage if the temps dips close to freezing which keeps them from actually getting frozen (a no no) but otherwise it is unheated and stays very cool from fall until spring. The majority of the curing process is done under ground by not harvesting them until the vegetation dies back and the skins toughen up. I just let them dry a bit before storing and that's it. I never wash them though before storing as getting them all wet is not a good idea. The deep red frillies are indeed some lettuce - just enough to use for that evening meal (hamburgers or tacos I cannot remember which now!) but was negligible in weight so it is not in the tally. I only weigh to the nearest quarter pound and something that falls at 1/8th or less is just not included. I am too lazy to try and track and convert every ounce of produce.
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thyme2garden
10:37 PM on September 13, 2010
thanks for letting me know about the potato storing process!
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mac
11:55 PM on September 13, 2010
It's amazing, great harvest, love those baby spinach leaves.
What is funeral potato?
What is funeral potato?
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Prairie Cat
12:42 AM on September 14, 2010
Oh wow, that is a boat load (wheel-barrow-load, I guess?) of potatoes! I tried to grow some in containers this year, but they had some bad luck. There is always next year, I guess!
What is the purple, frilly looking leaf pictured in the colander with the tomatoes and cukes?
What is the purple, frilly looking leaf pictured in the colander with the tomatoes and cukes?
thyme2garden - You are welcome!
Mac - Funeral potatoes is a potato based casserole which got its "tongue in cheek" name by always being part of the luncheon after funerals and is a regular at most potluck events. Usually it is made with frozen hash browns - but you can substitute lightly boiled or left over baked potatoes - which is what I like to do. Here's a link to the standard recipe:
http://www.food.com/recipe/moms-cheesy-potato-casserole-aka-funer
al-potatoes-390936
Prairie Cat - the red frilly greens are lettuce that I picked because I needed it for that evenings meal prep (tacos or burgers - I cannot remember which now!) but the weight was negligible (did not round to 1/4 pound) so it is not in the harvest tally.
Mac - Funeral potatoes is a potato based casserole which got its "tongue in cheek" name by always being part of the luncheon after funerals and is a regular at most potluck events. Usually it is made with frozen hash browns - but you can substitute lightly boiled or left over baked potatoes - which is what I like to do. Here's a link to the standard recipe:
http://www.food.com/recipe/moms-cheesy-potato-casserole-aka-funer
al-potatoes-390936
Prairie Cat - the red frilly greens are lettuce that I picked because I needed it for that evenings meal prep (tacos or burgers - I cannot remember which now!) but the weight was negligible (did not round to 1/4 pound) so it is not in the harvest tally.
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Thomas
10:34 AM on September 15, 2010
LOL! Look at all of those potatoes! They look like a great storage variety. I'll be interested to see how long my potatoes last in storage. You've given me something to aspire to next year. Growing potatoes in pots is the pits!
Harvesting for me has been basically lettuce and carrots only this year. Some broccoli but the cauliflower bolted before I could get to it. Bummer of a season is an understatement.
147 pounds of potatoes, that's awesome! Do they last several months like I'd expect?
Lastly, how many chickens are laying eggs for you now that you get 31 per week?!
147 pounds of potatoes, that's awesome! Do they last several months like I'd expect?
Lastly, how many chickens are laying eggs for you now that you get 31 per week?!
Thomas - I had to stand and just admire the haul for a while after I was done! They are an impressive pile this year.
Sinfonian - So glad you checked in! I hope you are doing well. To answer your questions: Yes. they last for months in storage - usually until about April at which point if we have not used them they start getting sprouted and shrunken. Last week we had five hens laying regularly with a day or two that only four eggs were produced. This week, we have had all six hens laying and so far we have had 3 days in a row with 6 eggs produced.
Sinfonian - So glad you checked in! I hope you are doing well. To answer your questions: Yes. they last for months in storage - usually until about April at which point if we have not used them they start getting sprouted and shrunken. Last week we had five hens laying regularly with a day or two that only four eggs were produced. This week, we have had all six hens laying and so far we have had 3 days in a row with 6 eggs produced.
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12:25 PM on September 25, 2010
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