Harvest Monday

beans, tomatoes, chili

Welcome to Harvest Monday! I really enjoy this visiting with other garden bloggers over at Daphne's Dandelions each week.

The small tomatoes continue to come in, not as heavy as at the beginning of the summer, but still respectable harvests. The larger tomatoes, Black from Tula, Amish Paste, Italian Heirloom come one or two at a time, along with some round red and paste volunteers. The patch of yellow wax beans are going strong and a trickle of green chili is coming in.

eggplant twins

This time of year often brings odd and deformed squash, but this week it was a twin eggplant.

Squash and eggplants

This week the squash were not as prolific, but the eggplants gave a good harvest.

Butterfly on small sunflowers

The are tons of bees, yellow jackets and flies, with a few butterflies around

tromboncinno squash

Here are two of the Tromboncinno squash on the greenhouse frame. One is now about 40 inches long, the other one is longer and has touched the ground and is now growing in a curve. I'm leaving these for winter squash. I have several more; some are coiled up like snakes. With all the leaves it is hard to get pictures of some of them.

Harvest Monday

Northern Arizona Melon?

Welcome to Harvest Monday, a great blog hop sponsored by Daphne's Dandelions. It's great fun to visit with gardeners from around the world.

The biggest news this week is the giant muskmelon from the greenhouse bed. It weighed 11 pounds! Now I'm pretty sure I planted Hale's Best Jumbo and the other large melons are round like Hale's. The only thing I can think is either some seeds of Northern Arizona Melon, which I grew years ago and is the only football shaped melon I've grown, got mixed in or this is something out of the compost.

It's been a few years since I've grown Northern AZ so I don't really remember what they should look like inside or out. As you can see a slice of this melon almost fills my dinner plate, the flesh was sweet and delicious, and tend all the way to the skin. It has a flavor resembling cantaloupe but not quite the same. Of course I saved all the seeds ;=)

green chili

Other harvests included green chilis. I'm not positive, because my plastic labels with permanent marker all faded completely out, but I think these might be New Mexico Joe E Parker.

Baby Blue Hubbard

The sole Baby Blue Hubbard plant in the back garden only set one fruit and then looked like it was dying. Possibly disease, possibly from lack of water. The stem on this one looked like it was drying out so I went ahead and pulled and cooked it. It really needed to go longer, a bit watery and not as sweet as I think it will get later towards fall. But a good lesson, since I have four more plants out front. I will be patient and wait.

eggs

There were only about a dozen eggs all told from the hens this week, but one day we got three, so I think the molty one might be getting back to laying again.

Market Stand

My oldest grand daughter, Miracle, spent the weekend with me. She brought her violin to the farmer's market and played for folks. She even got a $2 tip.

Here on the table, from left to right is more of the weeks harvest;, Tromboncinno squash ( I had to climb on the roof to get one of them!), Snow White, Princepe Borghese and Red Currant tomatoes, Mountain Rose potatoes, eggplants, Rond de Nice squash. In the back are some yellow Scallopinni, white patty pan, yellow zuchinni, and some odd squash that I think must be either something out of the compost or something that came in with the yellow zuchinni seed. They look a bit like a cross between zuchinni and yellow crookneck. They taste fine tho.

In the red crate are herb plants, sorrel, basil, lavender, rosemary.