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
After a week without any pictures, it feels good to have something this week. I’m a bit embarrassed about the state of the weeds in the garden proper, but at least we’re making headway in the other areas. We’re so busy picking zucchini and yellow squash and throwing them over the fence at our neighbors that it’s hard to find time to pull weeds.
Some of the corn stalks have refused to die and have even started growing ears. I still have my doubts about how many we’ll wind up with in the end, but at least we still have some hope.
The carrots are starting to get big enough to eat, as are the beets, and the green onions are better than you’ll find in a store. As we fill out more and more areas of our harvest spreadsheet, we’ve started counting some things in ounces (such as carrots and onions), but we’ll keep counting others in units (such as zucchini and yellow squash).
Picked this week (*not* cumulative):
15 yellow squash
11 zucchini
4 cucumbers
4 oz. carrots
1 turnip
2 oz. green onions
2 red chili peppers
1 beet
I can see this list will soon be (if it’s not already) too large to enter each week, so I’ll probably upload the spreadsheet and just link to it.
Although I am without a camera, as Charmaine is still in San Diego, I thought I’d post a quick update about the latest harvest. The corn may be down, but the rest of the garden is picking up steam.
Today I was forced to pick:
2 Cucumbers (I’m eating one like an apple right now)
2 Zucchini (total is now 13)
3 Yellow Squash (total is now 18)
We came home from participating in the Burley Lions Spudman Triathlon to a huge windstorm. When we got up this morning, most of the corn was down. The wind had snapped several of the stalks and pushed most of the rest to the ground. I went out and pulled some of them back up, but I don’t think they’ll make it. At this point we’ll be lucky to get any corn this year. What a shame.
Next year we’ll plant all the corn together, so the outer rows can protect the inner rows. I’m not sure how much protection that will give it, but it should help with the pollination process.
Charmaine is in San Diego this week, and she took the camera with her, so I have no pictures. In fact, I won’t be able to take the week 11 photos on Thursday either. Oh well. I’m not all that upset about not having a picture of this destruction.
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 weeks already. It’s even harder to believe how much has changed in the last 3 weeks. I’m hoping the fertilizer we added yesterday will kick things into an even higher gear for the next couple weeks.
