First Red Bell pepper(rotted on on side), few tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, few green beans, cucumbers and an onion.
Second and final batch of Red onions harvested- washed and dried.
2 asparagus spears, a yellow squash, a few yard long beans, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Tomatoes and green beans. I pick my tomatoes while slightly colored. They ripen in a couple of days.
Red bell peppers that I picked while they're still slightly green, so they don't rot on the plant. They finally changed to fully red color(without any rot).
I love all those onions. I had a really bad harvest of them this year. Some year I'll learn how to get big ones, but for now I'll eat my little tiny ones.
ReplyDeleteDaphne - This was my first year of planting onions. The size was mixed with most ranging in small to medium and just a few were larger ones. The lesson I learnt, is to plant them deeper, if you want larger onions!
ReplyDeleteLove your site...and your harvest! It's nice to find a fellow zone 4 gardener to compare apples to apples (or onions to onions) :0
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip on planting onions deeper. A neighbor gave me some bulbs that weren't marked -- so I planted them thinking they were flowers, so planted them shallow. When I saw the green shoots I knew they were onions, pulled the first when I thought it was "ready" -- ha ha....the second one was quite small but at least edible...I do love learning as I go and grow too.
Good to know that onions need to go deeper to grow bigger. Mine all died or were small this year. i have a few left in the garden, but I am not counting on them to be anything special.
ReplyDeleteSharon - I didn't know Montana was zone 4 as well. Welcome, it'll be great to see what you're able to grow in your place. We just have such a short summer about 3 months here in Minnesota, it's a pity! I would love to have a longer period of gardening - could have tried to grow so many other varieties of veggies that need a long summer!!
ReplyDeleteTosha - Yes, onions certainly need depth to grow a larger one. Shallow planted ones, (I read this) are good for spring onions. Will have to put this to test next year!