Monday, August 16, 2010

Havest Monday

It's Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions! Join in the fun!

Like most folks the tomatoes seem to be taking a break with all the heat and lack of rain. But, for the past 3 or 4 days we have had at least one good downpour every day so hopefully the plants and especially the seedlings are enjoying it. And the temperatures are suppose to go down a bit this week. Hopefully the tomatoes will pick back up again! Although, I have found more tomato worms this year than I have in the past 4 years since I have been in this house. Uhg! It is so disappointing to see that you have a nice red tomato ready to be picked only to pick it and find the bottom or other side half gone!
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I cooked up the 3rd pumpkin and froze most of it, but I kept some out for some more Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies. Mmmmm. There Gone! I have about 9 cups frozen with 3 pumpkins on the vine.
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I also keep coming in with random onions or carrots! That is because every time I go out to pick at least one kid proudly presents me with their bounty! 1 onion. They keep telling me they are ready and I keep telling them I’M NOT! Ha!
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On this day, my boy decided that their one and only carving pumpkin was ready to be picked! Between squash bugs, SVB’s, squash lady bugs, and kids….we’ll never have a carving pumpkin. Guess this one is bound to be fall decor!
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And since most days when I pick my harvests the Habaneros are still green, I thought I would show a basket of them all bright and full of color! They sure are pretty!
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Total Harvest 2010

Variety This Weeks Total Season Total
Lemon Cucumber 4 20 ea
American Genuine Cucumber 10 ea
Oregano 1 baggie dried + 1 quart
Spicy Bush and Reg Basil 1 pt 6 baggies dried +2qt
Sebring Zucchini 5 ea
8 Ball zucchini 17 ea
Black Beauty Zucchini 21 ea
Bush Beans 1 pt 25 quarts
Lettuce (mixed pckg) 2-4 lbs
Bright Lights Chard 8 Bunches
Cabbage (mixed pckg) 4 ea
Evergreen Bunching Onion 2 20 plus a few cuttings
Yellow Onion 11 58 ea (small)
Broccoli 4 heads
Juliet Hybrid Grape Tomato 51 357ea
Red Cherry Tomato 41 157 ea
German Johnson Tomato 3 ea
Pink Girl Tomato 4 28 ea
Prudens Purple 2 26 ea
Rutgers Tomato 3 21 ea
Big Boy Tomato 4 20 ea
Strawberries 2 ea
Cosmic Purple Carrot 4 ea
Sweet treat hybrid/Petite ‘n Sweet carrots 21 54 ea
Jalapeno Pepper 5 ea
Purple Beauty Bell Pepper 1 ea
Habanero Pepper 16 22 ea
Serrano Pepper 3
Lincoln and Alaskan Peas 2 cups 1/4 cup
Ambrosia Melon 3
Harvest Princess Pumpkin 1 very small 1
Small Sugar Pumpkin 3

Planted this week: Bush Beans, Peas, carrots, Lettuce, Chard, Spinach.

4 comments:

  1. Well...at least the little pumpkin is pretty! Oh, those habaneros are hot!!!

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  2. A daily downpour sounds great! You say your tomatoes are taking a break, but I still see lots of them in your pictures. Oh, and those pumpkin cookies tease me again, right when I've got a hankering for something sweet and yummy in my tummy. :-) Your habaneros look pretty - are they hothothot? How do you incorporate them into your cooking?

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  3. thyme2garden-the larger ones are slowing down. I haven't gotten any ripe ones in several days. The juliet is non stop and not a favorite!

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  4. I love those haberanos. They are so beautiful. I'd be scared to death of them though.

    I wish we would get some rain. We have only had about an inch of rain in the last month which is really unusual for us.

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