Harvest Monday

Eggs

Welcome to Harvest Monday, hosted by Daphne's Dandelions. This great blog hop lets you see what others are harvesting around the world.

My apologies for not getting around and commenting on every one else's posts last week. It was a really crazy week at work plus our county fair week.

I didn't get a  lot of pictures of fresh harvests, although I did pick small tomatoes, squash and snap beans.

I also got eggs. Several days last week I got really small eggs like the one on the left in the picture. I'm not positive yet if this is from one of the banties that has been molting and so not laying for awhile or if it's from one of my Buff Orpington pullets. The egg in the middle is one of the normal size banty eggs. The big egg on the right is from one of the Welsummers  that I just picked up a  couple of weeks ago.

Buttercup squash

I did pretty good at the county fair, most of my veggies placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

German Butterball potatoes

green chili, Joe E. Parker

green onion, Tokyo long white

Princepe Borghese

Snow White

Spaghetti Squash

Yukon Gold potatoes

Pencil Pod Yellow Wax

Tromboncino

Buff Orpington pullet

My Buff Orpington pullet was 2nd in her class. She and her sisters should start laying any time between now and Halloween.

Harley

My young Welsh Harlequin drake took a blue ribbon. My two Muscovy drakes and the two Muscovy ducks all were given red ribbons. I just didn't get good pictures of them this afternoon.

Harley takes a bath

Harley was especially happy to be home and to be able to take a bath!  He's the ring leader of his group of ducks (the others are WH crossed with runner duck, but they were all hatched and raised together). I wish I'd had my camera out when I first put Harley back out in the pen. One of the other ducks from his group came up to him making soft noises and stood rubbing the top of their head under his chin, like, where have you been? I was so worried about you, glad you are home. It was really cute.

Getting Ready; County Fair

Most of the collection of vegetables

Our county fair is this week and I'm scrambling to get my veggies ready to take to the fairgrounds, having to juggle some crazy work stuff along with that.

Besides some single veggie entries I'm also entering the vegetable collection. This first pic is most of them, the other one are things that would wilt quickly so they are waiting in a jar of water until I take off.

the rest of the veggie collection

There are 23 things in my veggie collection:

SPAGHETTI SQUASH

TROMBONCINO SQUASH

BUTTERCUP SQUASH

BABY BLUE HUBBARD SQUASH

YELLOW ZUCHINNI SQUASH

WHITE PATTY PAN SQUASH

YELLOW WAX BEANS

KENTUCKY WONDER BEANS

KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA BEANS

TRIONFO VIOLETTO BEANS

RED CURRANT TOMATO

SNOW WHITE TOMATO

PRINCEPE BORGHESE TOMATO

AMISH PASTE TOMATO

RAINBOW CHARD

RED BURGUNDY AMARANTH

ALL BLUE POTATO

GERMAN BUTTERBALL POTATO

YUKON GOLD POTATO

TOKYO LONG WHITE GREEN ONION

GREEN BELL PEPPER (UNKNOWN VARIETY)

GREEN CHILI, JOE E. PARKER

EASTER EGG RADISH

PURPLE DRAGON CARROT

STREAKED EGGPLANT

PURPLE EGGPLANT

I'm also entering some of the same veggies in their individual classes and have them sorted and labeled to make it easier when I get to the fair grounds.

winter squash

 

That Tromboncino weighs in at 12 pounds as near as I can figure (I had to use the bathroom scale!)

tomatoes, potatoes, chili, beans