Harvest Monday - August 15th, 2011

Thanks to our host Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Mondays where everyone showcases their produce for the week. 

Today is India's 64th Independence Day, so Happy Independence Day India!!  This week has mostly been about cukes, beans and eggplants.  Still no sign of ripe tomatoes.... ok, maybe a couple tiny ones.  I guess we will see all of them ripen at about the same time.  In the meantime, we will certainly enjoy our cukes and eggplants(and everything else in between)!

Sweet Banana Peppers and Green beans

Zucchini blossoms, sweet banana peppers, cucumbers and zucchini

Green beans

Cucumbers

Eggplants

Yellow squash

Green chillies, eggplant, cukes, zucchini, tomatoes

Green chillies and Mint

Harvest Monday - July 25, 2011

An update on the duck that I blogged previously.  Yesterday evening, the duck was fluffing and spreading wings quite often and during this process, we could see some movement underneath its wings.  Ducklings!!!  Eggs are finally hatched.  Kids were glued to the windows to see some glimpses of the little ducklings and to count how many there were.  We were expecting them to be gone this morning, but the mama duck is sitting on the eggs/chicks with a couple of ducklings' faces visible around her body.  I could see a few, but there were about 8 eggs in there.  Not sure when she'll leave with the ducklings. Perhaps there are some more eggs to be hatched....

Can you see the duckling underneath the wing?

Onto Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Mondays.  This week was when I finally dug out the Yukon Gold potatoes.  Kids were excited to dig and find some.  I have them in the container, so it is easy to dump the contents onto a tarp and go through the dirt.  It is hard to miss any potatoes that way!  Also, cherry harvest continued.  Will be making a pie today :)

Yukon gold potatoes

Sour cherries

Beans and cherries

Yellow raspberries

Yellow squash

Beans and some peas

Green Bell Peppers and Red onions

Yellow squash, 2 tomatoes, sweet banana peppers

Green beans

Dill

Mint

Harvest Monday - July 4, 2001

Happy 4th to everyone!!  I don't have too many pictures this week!  This is the time when spring is almost over and summer is not yet here, so spring crops are mostly done with, but summer crop is yet to be ready.  My bush beans however gave a small first harvest today :)

In addition to the following harvests, we used a lot of mint(not pictured) this week.

Lettuce

Strawberries #1

Strawberries #2

Green beans!!