Monday, September 9, 2013

Harvest Monday 9/9/13


Zucchini Boats and Meatballs! Yummy! We eat a lot of meatballs, they are my kids favorite for meat. The boats have the middle cut out and diced and sauteed up with some onion and garlic and put back in the boats topped with tomato slices, feta, cheddar cheese and paprika. Super yummy!

The first 2 butternut squash, there are about 5 more out there. More critters are getting ahold of my tomatoes. I think they feel they have hit the jackpot!

Rainbow of carrots, the purple ones on the left are cosmic purple, the one on the right and pictured above is Purple sun.

We have had alot of caterpillars in the carrots, we have put a few in the bug house and let them hatch in there and let them go. This is one of them. The kids really enjoy them.
I am getting close to the the end of my potatoes for the season.  There is only one small patch left to dig through. We will miss these yummy treasures until next year!
This is my second Pennsylvania Dutch Long Neck pumpkin and the largest! It came it at 12.2 lbs! There are a few more out there, some may make it before frost, some may not. They only have a little more than a month to ripen up.
This was a good harvest day! Lots of tomatoes, Great White, Brandywine, Japanese Black Trifile, Rutgers. Lots of Serrano peppers and some lipstick, chocolate, and Marconi peppers. A good bunch of Chinese Red Noodle beans.

9 comments:

  1. A really beautiful harvest! You grow such a great variety of plants! Love that long neck pumpkin!

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  2. If I ever get enough zucchinis I will try your zucchini boats! They look delicious! Very nice harvest, especially that Long Neck pumpkin! Looks like something cool to try next year!

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  3. What a squash! I'd love to help you eat it. LOL

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  4. Your garden is so bountiful now. That's a fabulous big squash. I've been seeing a number of butterflys in my garden now but the only caterpillars I've seen are loads of cabbage worms and loopers. Wish I could catch a glimpse of that beautiful swallowtail.

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  5. Your harvest looks so wonderful to me!!! I had never seen a pumpkin shaped like that before! I love the pretty butterfly. We have had two or three of those in our yard this year. The zucchini boats look delish! Nancy

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  6. Those zucchini boats looks delicious! Um, and that long neck pumpkin...I've never heard of such a thing! It's huge! What will you do with all of that?

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  7. Your vegetables look great! I can't seem to succeed with winter squash because the voles always damage the vines or the fruits. I can grow summer squash, though, and my tomatoes are just getting going, so I hope the weather holds up so I can get a full crop. What a beautiful butterfly, and what a good feeling when you help them. I baby Cinnabar moth cats. in my yard.

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  8. That's a beautiful long neck pumpkin, I have lots of cabbage worms this year instead of beautiful swallowtail caterpillar.

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  9. That is a monster neck pumpkin! And it has a nice thick neck. I can see that making a log of pies. We did a taste test here on the neck pumpkin vs. butternut squash. The butternut was drier, but the neck pumpkin was sweeter tasting and pureed up better.

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