Monthly Archives: August 2008

Week 15

I find I’m not willing to take as many pictures of things outside now that everything is looking the same from week to week.

The yellow squash have slowed down a lot this week, almost to a manageable level, but the zucchini have really taken off… it’s almost like they’re trying to catch up with the yellow squash.

We picked another round of corn today, but I doubt we’ll cook it till tomorrow. The previous set of corn was amazing. The beans are always excellent. But we still haven’t had much luck eating turnips.

Picked this week (8 days, since I’m a day late):
108 oz (6.75 pounds) Beans
4 Bell Peppers
18 ears Corn
13 Zucchini
11 Yellow Squash
12 Cucumbers
1 Lemon Cucumber
10 oz Carrots
7 Tomatoes
6 oz Green Onions
3 Turnips
2 Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkins
2 Jack-Be-Little Pumpkins
1 Sugar Pumpkin
1 Spaghetti Squash
1 Hubbard Squash

Corn is on

I finally got sick of waiting for a sign that the corn was ripe and just picked some… and guess what? It’s ripe. We picked 9 ears. Eight of them are beautiful. One had been eaten form the inside out by a bug that was no longer around. We also picked a nice-sized carrot.

Carrot and Corn

Squash and Beans

It seems like I’m constantly writing about the zucchini and yellow squash harvest, so it’s sort of exciting to be able to talk about something else for a change. Today we started picking pumpkins and squash. I pulled 2 pumpkins, 1 sugar pumpkin, and 1 Jack-Be-Little. I also took a spaghetti squash and a hubbard squash.

While out picking squash, I realized the beans were once again overrunning us. Charmaine grabbed a bowl and we picked more than 2 pounds of beans. We also pulled a few small carrots to thin the row.

Pumpkins, Squash, and Beans

Week 14

This was a week of amazing progress. We pulled weeds for a few hours on saturday, and it’s easy to see the growth accelerating now that the plants don’t have to fight as hard for resources.

Picked this week:
11 zucchini
13 yellow squash
20 turnips
2 cucumbers
2 tomatoes
26 oz beans
1 lbs potatoes
4 beets
3 oz carrots

Week 13

I’m writing this installment while sitting down to a bowl of nature’s french fries… beans, picked only moments ago, boiled, buttered, salted, peppered, and oh so good.

This was another good week for harvesting:
6 zucchini
11 yellow squash
5 cucumbers
2 turnips
2 tomatoes
8 oz beans
5 lbs potatoes
1 carrot