This week saw nice harvests from the garden. A major portion of beets were harvested, they were mostly smaller size, but it has been a couple years to actually harvest some from the garden. So they were very welcome! In the previous years, beets have been eaten by voles(or some such tunnel digger) and deer. This week also saw me blanching and freezing long beans for the first time. They were getting to be larger quantities and along with bush beans a tad too much beans to eat:)
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Daphne's Dandelions for others' harvests of the week.
Beets
Bush beans, cilantro
Swiss chard and beet greens
Long beans, cukes and 1 cherokee purple tomato
Kale and tomatoes
Beans, fenugreek leaves, eggplant
Long beans
Zucchini and lone tomato
Beans, cukes, tomato, long beans
Great looking harvest this week. I totally forgot to plant long beans this year.... Just now planting beets and carrots for fall, reminds me I need to get out and plant some more!
ReplyDeleteWith so many different seeds to plant and at different times, it is so easy to forget to plant something:) I almost forgot to plant zucchini this year! It's one plant that I have outside the fence which grows without any fuss, I put it off till later and would have forgotten, except I go through my bag of seeds(very often) and came across them!
DeleteBeautiful harvest!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteGreat looking harvest! I love those long beans. I'm going to have to give them a try some time soon.
ReplyDeleteYes, long beans are great producers! Also, since they're so long, a few would suffice for a meal:)
DeleteYou too with the problem of voles! At first I thought they were moles but our neighbor said that moles don't target roots as food. This year I fashioned tubular cages out low-gauge chicken wire - about 5 inches in diameter and twice as deep - so that I could plant out the zucchini in them. The trick worked, but there are still tunnels for which I am just hoping that those evil things will get the hint and find someplace else to dig.
ReplyDeleteOne year my beet plants put out so much growth and I was counting on eating all the yummy large beets and when I thought it was time for harvest and pull them up, guess what I found?? No roots! Something had eaten them from inside and I never knew. Thankfully, this year I am spared, although I don't know why...
DeleteBeautiful harvest, especially those long beans.
ReplyDeletethanks!
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