I had some decent harvests this week, though I ridiculously don’t have any pictures to show (my camera charger took an unexpected trip to Virginia and I won’t be down there to retrieve it until the 14th so I’m nervous about using it too much!).
I harvested a total of about 20 lbs of tomatoes this week and 6 pints of sungolds. Still a little frustrating, because I have SO MUCH green fruit and it just isn’t ripening. GRR! C’mon, plants! Show me what you’ve got!
Zucchinis are finally coming around. I’ve lost ALL of my big 8 ball plants to fusarium wilt, but luckily it hasn’t touched my other varieties. They were slow to take off, but they are starting to set fruit pretty heavily now, so maybe it won’t be a total loss on that front this year. I harvested about 12 lbs of zucs this week.
On Saturday I finally gave my peppers some attention and liberated them out of weeds that are chest high (no joke…it’s embarassing). Despite being entirely shaded and starved, I harvested 2 pints of serrano peppers and one single, giant Italico. The serranos especially are covered in little peppers and still flowering, so they are doing remarkably well despite their abandonment. Bless you, little peppers…
And I finally, FINALLY have beans. I harvested a small handful of fortex beans which I ate raw standing in the garden. I have some nice rattlesnake pole beans that should be ready today. The rest are flowering like crazy, so I think this may be my last week where I’m not overwhelmed by bean picking, but that makes me happy. Picking beans is my favorite gardening task!
Ah- I did take a trip down to Jeff’s restaurant on Saturday to deliver a box of veggies, and I got there right as they were sending some of my tomatoes out to customers! I was SO EXCITED to see my veggies making their way to someone’s table! I hope they liked them!
Head on over to Daphne’s to share your harvest!
Oh, how exciting to see your tomatoes being served!!
Several of my tomato plants are having problems also. I had to pull one this past week.
That is a very gorgeous plate. I hope your tomatoes start to ripen soon.
Whoa, 20 pounds of tomatoes! That’s a lot!! I wish our plants were producing that kind of poundage!
Oh wow, what is that dish with your tomatoes? It looks so good! Love how you posed right be
Ack, my comment got cut off. Meant to say, “love how you posed right behind that yummy looking dish.”
Our tomatoes are just starting to think about ripening up – so enjoy those 20 lbs! It will be another two weeks before the tomato harvest poundage ramps up to anything near that in my area. Like you, I think about 10 days from now I am going to be in the “buckets of beans” harvesting mode. Late for us this year by more than 2 weeks but happening none the less.
Holy cow that plate looks awesome!
Congratulations!! I know how overwhelming your garden has been for you but seeing that plate in the restaurant must be very rewarding. Tell Chef Jeff that his presentation of your tomatoes is fantastic!!
Here in our part of Alabama the weather has been ridiculously HOT (even for us) and extremely DRY. Even the okra has quit bearing (and IT comes from Africa!!).
Squash, tomatoes, beans, melons, cucumbers are all dead. One row of butter beans is holding on…
Taylor…is that you in the picture? It looks like JAMES!!!