My Edible Garden

I've been gardening for most of my life and have been a devoted fan of organic gardening the whole time. It just makes so much more sense to work in harmony with Mother Nature than to fight her. Besides which it is better for the planet and better for our bodies. Here you can see what I'm planting and harvesting, with gardening hints and resources thrown in for good measure.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Harvest Monday

eggplant

Welcome, once again, to Harvest Monday! This is an awesome blog hop sponsored by Daphne. Hop on over and say Hi and see what other gardeners around the world are harvesting from their gardens!

It was a really crazy week at work so I did not get many pictures of the harvest this week.

squash and tomatoes



Besides the eggplant, squash and tomatoes shown here, I did harvest more yellow wax beans, Kentucky Wonders, some of the Baby Blue Hubbard and Buttercup winter squash, along with some really nice bell peppers.

I also harvested a couple Amish Paste and Italian Heirloom tomatoes. While I am overrun with squash of all sorts, I have yet to experience a tomato glut. In fact, aside from the small salad tomatoes I haven't gotten enough to eat my fill fresh, let alone have any to can.

Sunday was a beautiful fall day, crisp and delicious in the morning, with an almost too warm afternoon. I spent most of the day working 'out back'.

outback before
outback before


I am working to tear down an old pallet fence, pull out the weed trees, patch the stone wall where I can or pull it out where it's too far gone, all to run some chainlink.







I will say the pallets have lasted well, considering that they were just wired together and have been sitting on the ground all this time. Besides that, the pallets in this area were also part of the compost bins.








There are still several good sized weed trees to pull out of here, but it was getting late and I was getting tired. Since I"m on call while the boss is on vacation and our county fair is next week I doubt I will get back to this project for awhile. Once I can get the piece of fence done, I'll work on cutting up all the old pallets for stove wood, especially as many of them are oak. That should greatly condense the mess back here.

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful eggplant! Sounds like you are still having some good harvests except for the tomatoes. It hasn't been a great year for them here either.

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  2. Gorgeous eggplants and squash! All my squash is done for the year but eggplants are still producing.

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  3. Good harvest of eggplant and squash. My tomatoes have not done well this year but getting a few more now. Looks like you still have a lot of work ahead of you with cleaning up the pallets. Nancy

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  4. Nice harvest! I'll trade you come tomatoes for some squash! ;0) My squash did not do well at all this year.

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  5. Not getting a huge tomato harvest here either - but that is actually not that unusual for my growing region. Looks like a big project you have undertaken with the fence work. I like doing that kind of project as it always feels so rewarding when completed.

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  6. My summer squash did not do well. Yours look beautiful. Quite a project you got going, will be lovely when completed.

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  7. Great harvest love those eggplants, be looking forward to the after photo when all your hard work with the pallets is complete,hope someones helping you.

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  8. Thanks everyone; I must apologize for not getting around to visit everyone's harvest post this week; just had the work week for h*ll on top of trying to get my fair stuff done. @Andrea I live alone, so no, I don't usually have help. sometimes when I have a big project I can get my son to come over and give me a hand with heavy lifting and such but he is currently in Afghanistan. So going at it alone, which is partly why it takes so blasted long to get things accomplished around here.

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