As for the harvests, I am pretty pleased so far, not because I am hauling in huge harvests, but because the troublesome deer has been kept at bay. Since my 7' tall fence and deer netting everywhere, I haven't been bothered by pesky deer eating my plants. Touchwood! It feels like such a huge victory not to have your plants eaten :)
From my perspective, my harvests are trickling in and I, myself am amazed by total harvests - when I have to do harvest Monday postings. They do add up and pretty fast too! Sometimes, I can't believe that my little garden is doing so much work:)
Harvested half of the onions this week. I only plant red onions. Onions started from seeds were just the size of, say a raspberry. Has anyone successfully grown large red onions from seed in the same year? If so, please let me know how to do it. My plants died off and when pulled, there were tiny onions only. The other set of onions pulled were those replanted from last year as they did not size up last year. I had saved them and replanted. Most of them were medium to small size. The third set of onions is the pack of tiny red onions bought from Menards. The plant has fallen and onions are mostly large to medium. Will need to pull them in the coming weeks. I guess I am not a very successful onion grower with no idea of how to improve for next year(:
Moving on, here are the harvest pics for the week that will be linked to Daphne's Harvest Mondays -
Blackberries(most eaten right off plants!), cucumber, beet leaves
First harvest of long beans!!
Lone zucchini
More long beans and first tomato of the season!
Cilantro, banana peppers, jalapeno peppers and long beans
Mint, cuke, beet, turnips
Replanted onion(tiny ones saved from last year) wasn't large (:
Still tinier onions grown from seeding (: Will replant them next year.
