HARVEST MONDAY

1/2" didn't even wet the ground

Welcome to Harvest Monday, a great blog hop hosted by Dave over at Happy Acres I hope you stop by there and see all the wonderful gardens and harvests. Even though I got half an inch of rain, the ground was still powder dry under the surface. Which is why I tend to water even if it's trying to rain, because it almost never rains enough.

Esmarelda is still pumping out milk like crazy

Esmarelda, one of my Nubian dairy goats, has weaned her triplets and is making milk like crazy. 10 gallons in the past 7 days. While the kids were nursing I was only milking once a day and now I have to milk twice a day. The old girl Bambi gave me 6 gallons this week, milking her once a day.

Japanese eggplant

The eggplants are still going strong. I did notice as I picked this week that I must have missed some last week because there were a couple very large ones with dull skin. I decided to leave them for seed.

a handful of tomatoes

There was only a handful of tomatoes, most of which I ate with tacos.

cucuzzi

Cucuzzi is an edible gourd from Italy and it's been producing like crazy and trying to take over the whole yard. Too bad the goats didn't seem to care much for it, it'd be a great thing to grow for them.

Honey Nut squash

Last year my daughter brought me some HoneyNut squash she had been given. They are like single serving butternuts but much better and sweeter flavored. I thought maybe they were hybrids but when I looked them up online found they were supposed to be heirlooms. So I saved seeds and grew some. These three were on the ground so I picked them because I was afraid they might be get too wet and rot. The vines have quite a few more but I love these so much I'm pretty sure I did not grow nearly enough of them.

Cucuzzin obliterating the rest of the harvest

This weeks totals;

Eggplant 1# 14 ounces

Tomatoes 4 ounces

Cucuzzi 11# 11 ounces

Honey Nut 1# 1.5 ounces

Milk;

Esmarelda 10 gallons

Bambi 6 gallons

Eggs 54

Thanks for coming along and thanks Dave for hosting us. See you next time.