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| squash glut with a few peppers |
Time for my favorite time of the week, Harvest Monday! A great blog hop sponsored by
Daphne's Dandelions, cruise on over and visit with gardeners from around the world.
My apologies to the other Harvest Monday participants last week. Usually I am able to go around, read and comment on every post, but last week I was having internet connection problems and didn't make it until Thurs. I did read all the wonderful posts and drooled over all of your beautiful produce, I just did not have time to comment. Hopefully this will be a better week!
Last week saw a huge amount of squash, a few sweet and chili peppers.
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| yellow wax beans |
My first picking of yellow wax beans, about a pound.
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| Kentucky Wonder & Yellow Wax beans |
Then a bit more than a pound of mixed beans, Kentucky Wonder pole and Yellow Wax bush. Yes I needed a ladder to get some of the KW!
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| all blue potatoes |
Some of the All Blue potatoes died in the heat so I dug them up. A pathetic showing of tiny potatoes. It is just too hot for 100 day potatoes as a spring planted crop. Next year I will save them to plant in June, hopefully they will do better.
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| eggplant # 9 |
Eggplant #9 is a bigger, later plant than the others have been, with slightly larger fruit. For size reference, that's a salad plate, not a dinner plate.
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| tromboncinno |
I have several large Tromboncinno squash I am letting mature for use as winter squash. This one is barely getting going and is already 32 inches long. The one next to it (not pictured) is 36".
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| mobile coop |
And the new mobile coop is almost finished. The nest boxes are done and half the roof is on. I need to make a plywood shutter for the open section on this end, the other end and a strip above the nest boxes. But it will be pretty usable just as soon as I get the roof on!
Beautiful squash and beans! the coop is coming along nicely too.
ReplyDeleteHi Mary!
ReplyDeleteUnusual squash. That's too bad about those potatoes. Mine didn't do so good either. Better luck next year!
I love the look of the 2 beans mixed together. That Tromboncino zucchini is AMAZING. I will try again next year to get mine to grow. It is just so cool!
ReplyDeleteI find that growing potatoes over summer here is something of a waste of time. I get my best yields by planting through winter until early Spring and then harvesting late Spring, early summer. They really don't seem to like the heat do they?
ReplyDeleteno potatoes do not like the heat. They don't like to be frozen either. I guess that's why they grow so well in Ireland; lots of cool damp weather there!
DeleteVery nice harvest! Your wax beans look especially good and make me sorry I didn't plant any of that type. Great variety of squashes too!
ReplyDeleteThe mobile coop is coming along nicely! I am always impressed with those squash. Pretty astounding to look at. What's the taste like - eaten young as a summer squash and eaten later as a winter variety?
ReplyDeleteI admit to not discerning much difference in flavor between varieties of summer squash; mostly differences in texture. The Tromboncinno is mild like any summer squash, with a texture more like the patty pans than the watery zucchini.
DeleteI love the way the yellow wax beans contrast with the green Kentucky Wonder and that squash is pretty impressive. Sorry about the potatoes. I hope they taste good at least.
ReplyDeleteNice looking harvest you have there. What a long squash that is. You could use it as a club! LOL
ReplyDeleteReally lovely harvest and I must admit that I'm envious of your squash! Also, the tromboncino...seen the seeds here but reluctant to try as we don't have hot enough weather to go gangbusters on squash/pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteEverything looks delicious! And that squash! I can't wait to see how big they really get by harvest time! So cool!
ReplyDeleteYour mobile coop looks great, too! You've been busy!
are the blue potatoes blue inside (I guess like purple potatoes?). I love the variety you have!
ReplyDeletethe all blues are bluish inside; these turned sort of grey when cooked; I'm thinking they might have been nicer if full sized.
DeleteI've grown trombocino and discovered I didn't like the flavor as a summer squash. Let us know how it tastes as a winter squash.
ReplyDeleteNice squash. Good variety this week!
ReplyDeleteNice variety of squash. I was considering trying Tromboncino next year, but after watching your experience with it, I think I will have to carefully consider where to locate it.
ReplyDeleteWow, Mary - what a Trombonchino! :) And the other ones loke fine as well! I am a bit yellous about your wax beans, I have stopped growing them since the slugs love them even more than me... If it is of any consolation, my potatoes is terible this year, they just reined away, just my asparagus ones has been OK. Have a nice week! :) Mia
ReplyDeleteThe squash look wonderful! Sorry about the potatoes. I really want to plant blue ones, they are always out by the time I think about it. Why the "mobile" coop?
ReplyDeleteThe mobile coop is because all of my chicken pens are temporary. I am using the chickens as composters; everything that I would normally throw in a compost pile is going into the chicken pen. They eat the bugs, a lot of the leaves and seeds and scratch and turn everything together with their manure. Eventually it will be lovely compost and then I'll move them and make that a garden spot.
DeleteEverything looks great! I love that squash. I'm worried about our potatoes with all this heat too. I guess we will see here in just a month or so!!
ReplyDeleteWhat an impressive harvest of squash! How will you use them all? My husband does not eat squash but Coco and I do!! I got my yellow beans in a little later so hoping I get some before it is too cold! Great harvest! Nancy
ReplyDeleteI have to admit Mary, I have not been to your blog. You are so diligent in commenting on mine and others'. I enjoyed your garden recap from last week. I'll have to look and see where Claypool, AZ is.
ReplyDeleteYour mobile chicken coop looks quite nice. How will you use that? Guess I should read back in your blog to learn more about your chickens. Susan
Thank you; Claypool is about 90 miles east of Phoenix in the foothills, I'm about 3300 feet elevation, so generally 5-10 degrees cooler than Phoenix. Means I can grow things that need a winter chill that don't do well lower down, but am too cold for citrus and tropical fruits. About the chicken coop see the reply earlier in the comments.
DeleteWhat a gorgeous harvest! I'm quite envious of your squash and potato harvest. Neither crop did very well for us this year (actually all our potatoes died due to beetles!) I like the mobile coop too, how many chickens will you plan to have?
ReplyDeleteAt the moment there are 3 banty hens and a Buff Orpington rooster, 4 BO girls that should be laying in Sept. Next spring I'll hatch out some more Buffs and add to the flock. I also have 4 Welsummer poults, looking like 2 girls and 2 boys. I'll be picking up a Welsummer rooster and some mature hens from a friend.
DeleteYou're so wonderfully conscientious about commenting! I like that the Tromboncino can be trellised, and grown as both a summer and winter squash? I wonder if there are others like that...
ReplyDeletethanks; I do try and get around and comment on everyone's posts; I know it's nice to see comments and not just a traffic spike in my stats. ;-) I think there are probably other squash that can also be used both ways. One way to find out would be to let one of each kind you have mature on the vine, then see how long it might keep and what it tastes like.
DeleteGreat looking squash... and your potatoes... hmmm, nice....
ReplyDeleteHi Mary lots happening in your patch, the coop is looking good and lots of produce...........shame about the potatoes but you can never know what weather will bring.
ReplyDeleteI'm just finishing getting my potato beds ready for planting, hopefully this coming week.