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| Tokyo Long White onions |
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This was a great week in the garden. Besides loads of greens, which I didn't photograph, since you've all seen them before, there were these nice green onions.
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| Rainbow Carrots |
More Rainbow Carrots
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| First Eggplant |
The first eggplant, small but yummy in a stir fry with the onions and carrots.
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| salad tomatoes |
Over four pounds of tomatoes, most of which I sold Sat. morning at the farmer's market. In the very center you can see a few Red Currant, the yellow/cream ones are Snow White and the red ones are Princepe Borghese.
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| new potatoes |
These yellow potatoes are probably Yukon Gold, but I'm not sure. They were sprouting in the kitchen and I planted them in 2 gallon pots. This batch weighed a half a pound.
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| peaches with squirrel marks and complete with ants |
I opened the door Sun. afternoon to catch a squirrel in the act of running off with one of my peaches, that one in the lower left. I thought the tree looked a bit funny this morning. So I picked these that were left on it. Some had ant damage but not much needed to be cut out. I peeled and cut them up for my yogurt, some went in the freezer and some in the fridge.
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| Plums |
After the squirrel thing I went and shook down the plum tree, some bird pecks and some wrinkles, but no ants. I might make some plum butter and then again I might just eat them all up.
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| More Rainbow Carrots |
On Sunday evening I went ahead and cleared up the rest of the Rainbow Carrots and the potatoes from a bed out front. I have about 6 artichoke plants that will go in that bed now, with perhaps some bush beans between them since they are small.
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| Russet potatoes |
These potatoes were from some grocery store spuds that sprouted in the kitchen.
You can check out
yesterdays post for a garden tour and preview of some up coming harvests.
Too bad you did not get a photo of the squirrel in the act. Frustrating isn't it, after waiting for the right moment to harvest wild life comes along and is one step ahead of you.
ReplyDeleteLucky shoppers that had the opportunity to sample you tomatoes.
Oh I wish I'd have had the camera, that would have been a one in a million pic.
DeleteSquirrels and birds are really good indicators of when something is almost near perfect ripeness... as they swoop in just the moment before and steal the goodness. Luckily you noticed the event and got to them before they were all removed or ruined.
ReplyDeletearound here the birds start on the fruit when it first starts to color up and is several weeks away from being ripe.
DeleteBeautiful eggplant and tomatoes! Too bad about the squirel damage thought :(
ReplyDeleteThank you. Well at least he didn't get the whole crop as in years past.
DeleteIt all looks soooo good, sorry about the squirrels. We have quite a few in our yard, however I have done a pretty good job of keeping them under control
ReplyDeletewhat are you doing about your squirrels? Trapping, shooting, dog?
DeleteI just planted some russet potatoes. Have never grown this variety before. Still waiting for them the sprout.
ReplyDeleteThe is the first time most of my potatoes have been a decent size; the soil is just really getting into good shape in some spots.
DeleteVery nice harvest. The eggplant and tomatoes look beautiful. I'm just celebrating the first eggplant flower this week. Just need soem warm weather.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I have about 11 eggplants and while they are all blooming not all have fruit yet.
DeleteWow peaches!! We don't have peaches in our area until mid August! What a great harvest with a huge amount of variety!
ReplyDeleteBonanza is a dwarf early peach, I'll be putting in some more varieties so I can spread the season a little.
DeleteWow 4 lbs of tomatoes already?
ReplyDeleteYup, I try to beat the birds to my fruits by picking them a tad under ripe and let them ripen off tree, they are just as good as tree ripen.
I do have about 16 of the small fruited tomato plants that I planted and there are a few more scattered around the yard that volunteered but don't have ripe fruit yet.
DeletePeaches and plums! I am only dreaming of most of my fruits just yet. (I have a few planted, but no harvests other than my old pear tree that came with the house.) Plum butter sounds divine!
ReplyDeleteplum butter is the best. It takes a while to get your trees going but of course once they do they are there for years.
DeleteHi! Nice little harvest you have there. I have one little unripe peach on my peach tree! lol Sorry the squirrel got some of yours. Nancy
ReplyDeleteAh well this has been the best year ever for the peach and plum trees, often a late snow catches the plums and last year the squirrels got what few peaches there were.
DeleteLove the rainbow carrots, they would make a very pretty salad served raw. I could almost taste those peaches too. I have a plum tree that's a couple of years old but hasn't had fruit yet, perhaps next summer we might get some. In the mean time I'm enjoying everyone else's fruit harvests.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking the same thing about those carrots and will plant a lot more of them this fall.
DeleteLove the new header picture those tomatoes look superb.
ReplyDeleteThank you, can't wait to add some of the big tomatoes to it!
DeleteOoohhh...your plums have me drooling right now! How fantastic!!! And all those little tomatoes! Man...I love cherry tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteI love the plums; the tomatoes have been ending up in a tomato salad that I've been taking to work since the lettuce has quit.
DeleteYou have such a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to harvest from. How lucky for you! All looks so good.
ReplyDeleteThank you; there is more variety to come too, over the next few months. Tho this winter we'll be back to lettuce and greens...
DeleteWe've decided to pull our plum trees out. They're 3 years old now and we've not gotten a single plum. They just can't handle the weather here.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame. But I wouldn't give up on them just yet. If you have late frost when they are blooming you might try putting a frost blanket over them to save the blooms.
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