Monday, August 10, 2015

Harvest Monday 10 August 2015

eggplantandtoms

 

The story this week is mostly squash and tomatoes, and that is likely to be repeated for the next few weeks. There are three new things in this photo, however. The first cucumber, first eggplant (Ping Tung) and the tomato on the right is a small Pruden’s Purple.  A neighbor in the garden is also growing Pruden’s Purple and has already harvested one that weighed a pound and 3 ounces (about half a kilo). I have two on the vine that should come close to that.

 

squash&cukes

 

Some more cucumbers and squash. The cukes are Monika, a Polish pickler. The vines are not looking really good (not from wilt, thankfully) so I am not sure if I will get a lot from them.

 

tomatoes

 

A lot more tomatoes. The yellow tomato in the middle is a small Sunkist that was showing signs of anthracnose infection at the stem end, so I picked it. The green tomato is an Opalka that dropped for some reason.

 

lettuce&tomatoes

 

I finally cleared out the last of the lettuce so I can try planting carrots in its place. I have more lettuce transplants ready to go in for fall salads.

 

Red_Zeppelin

 

Some of the Red Zeppelin onions were falling over and the foliage on the rest looked bad so I declared it time to harvest them. I let them dry in the sun for a few days before taking them home to finish their drying in the garage.

 

Ice_plant_flowers

 

Here is a follow-up picture of the crystalline ice plant I described here. The foliage has indeed changed, becoming smaller and more gray in color, with red tips. And it is now flowering. The attractive flowers only last a day and the bees do seem to like them.

 

That is what happened in my garden last week. To see what other gardeners around the world are doing, visit Daphne’s Dandelions, our host for Harvest Monday.

 

14 comments:

  1. Lovely bunch of tomatoes you have! I also had my first cukes of the season this week - seems late for me so happy to finally have some. Ooh and those onions ... sure wish I could grow some like that.

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    1. The red onions this year did get larger than last year. They take several weeks longer than the yellow onions so you have to plan for that.

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  2. Those are some nice looking onions. I'm with Susie, I wish I could grow some like that too! Is that a Sunburst squash in one photo? It's been a while since I grew a yellow pattypan and I need to grow them again.

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    1. It is a Sunburst, a great pattypan in my opinion. Not producing a lot this year for some reason.

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  3. I too wish I could grow better onions in my garden, hoping next year. Beautiful tomato harvest.

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    1. Onions are not that hard. Just use plants from seed, planted as early as possible, and fertilize well. They are heavy feeders.

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    2. Thanks for the info, will try again next year and hoping to do better.

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  4. Fantastic looking harvest Dave!! Our onions should be coming out this week!!

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  5. Great harvests. I'm going to have to pick my red onions tomorrow before the rain comes in. At least I hope the rain is coming in. We so need it.

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  6. Those onions look fantastic. I really should have harvested another bunch of them yesterday as they had fallen over several days ago, and now, of course, it's raining. My eggplant is just starting to set fruit, so it will be a while until I see my first one - next year I will be starting them a few weeks earlier. I almost always have timing issues when I first grow something, it seems.

    And congrats on that first cucumber...I know you've been waiting a while for that!

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  7. Great amount of good-looking tomatoes...you're ahead of me. I, too, like the red onions. And the ice plant's flower is really lovely.

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  8. You are ahead of me so far as tomatoes go. Only my small fruited one are ripening a few, the large fruited ones are barely starting to show a blush. It's nice that the ice plant flowers are attractive to good bugs, I would keep it just for that. I'm really missing the sweet alyssum that I keep to a minimum in the garden now, it's just too attractive to the bad bad bad Bagrada Bugs. Love the intense burgundy color of that lettuce.

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  9. A very nice harvest of tomatoes and squash. Your Red Zeppelin onions look wonderful too! What kind of lettuce is the beautiful dark burgundy one?

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  10. Wow. Harvesting tomatoes and lettuce at the same time is pretty impressive. Looks like you're starting to think about a fall garden. I've been looking through my carrot seeds lately and all the Asian vegetables seeds I've collected.

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