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
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.
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.
I finally finished building the enclosure for the pole beans this week, and they’ve already climbed all the way up and over the top of the strands of twine we tied up as a temporary stop-gap until we get some webbing or netting for them to fill out.
Charmaine also added tomato cages for some of the larger tomato plants, and did a bunch of weeding. I’m not a very good helper when it comes to weeding, but at least I feel like I’m not completely useless after building that bean cage.
The onslaught of the zucchini has begun. In the past 3 days I’ve picked 3 that were almost too large, and there’s another 10 that will be ready this week. The yellow squash will probably start this week as well. The cucumber hasn’t started, but it’s spreading out and blooming everywhere, so I’m sure we’ll wind up with more cucumbers than we can use.
Maybe all my joking about building a catapult to toss some of this produce at the neighbors isn’t such a bad idea after all?
