My first harvest was the harvest I found when I got back from vacation. I had beans in the fridge and tomatoes on the counter.
Tuesday's Harvest
Since Tuesday was my first pickings since being away, it was pretty large. It featured a huge zucchini and lots and lots of peppers, both hot and sweet.
Friday's Harvest
Friday's harvest also had a huge zucchini, but not as large as the first one. And the first of the butternut squash. This one set early. The others have all set in the last month. I hope they have time to ripe.
Saturday's Harvest
Saturday's harvest was about bringing things in before Irene hit. I probably would have left the eggplants up for a few more days, but better safe than sorry. I picked any of the Lemon Queen sunflower heads that had gotten heavy with seed. I figured the weight alone swinging back and forth would bring them down. Those boards are about 4" wide so that large head was 8" across. I picked a lot of these bags of dried beans. These were the cranberry beans. I'll be adding to them over time as the pods dry out. Neither the sunflowers or dried beans have been weighed the seed has to be separated first.
And Irene? Well she did a bit of damage, but it wasn't too bad. She bent down one of my dwarf fruit trees as you can see above. That tree is now upright and staked. My beans were leaning over I have them temporarily propped up. But they will need a better job probably tomorrow. I'm busy all today and they aren't about to fall over if they didn't yesterday. I lost one sunflower, but the rest are leaning crazily into the path. I hope I can pull them back. We lost one branch of our maple tree. It didn't seem to hit anything. And ripped one of the row covers off my bed. So all in all not too bad. The beans were fixed in the middle of the storm. Yes I'm a crazy gardener that went out into the storm to deal with her bean towers. The eye had passed when I got out to fix my peach tree though. I got about three inches of rain according to my weather station. But the output said it was raining cats and dogs (yes it literally said that, made me laugh) and at the maximum rate. So I think was it raining too hard for the gauge. If I get a chance I'll deal with my other rain gauge and see if it said three inches too.
- Beans 3.32 lbs
- Cucurbits 7.01 lbs
- Eggplant 1.70 lbs
- Pepper 9.10 lbs
- Potato 6.03 lbs
- Tomato 7.66 lbs
- Weekly Total 34.82 lbs
- Weekly Spent $0
- Yearly Total 442.01 lbs
- Veggie Garden was worth $886.09
- Fruit 1.69 lbs
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.
I'm glad to hear the damage only seems to be minor. It looks like it was a real good harvest week!
ReplyDeleteOh, Daphne, how pleased I am to read that Irene was not too bad! Must be a great relief:)
ReplyDeleteTake care,
Charlotta
Glad Irene wasn't too horrible. Your harvest looks fabulous as always. Do you grow sunflower seeds to eat?
ReplyDeleteWhat BEAUTIFUL peppers! Love them! Glad you survived Irene alright! Funny you went out into the storm to save your beans. I might have too!
ReplyDeleteThe harvest this week is quite bountiful. I am envious of the butternut squash as I am without much hope of getting anything off of my plants - they started setting fruit way too late as a result of our cold summer. Your peppers sure are pumping out the fruit now.
ReplyDeleteI am glad Irene was fairly gentle on your property. It could have been so much worse.
I agree with Shawn Ann, beautiful peppers!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Irene didn't cause too much damage!
Oh, what relief to hear that You and Your garden is OK! Been thinking about it all yesterday! Really nice harvest pictures! Take care! Mia
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the damage from the storm was minimal....thank goodness! I think that we were all pretty lucky considering what was forecasted!
ReplyDeleteHave fun getting your garden back into shape!
I found your page only a couple weeks ago. It is nice that Irene didn't sweep it away before I got a good chance to know it.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, good harvest.
Happy to ear that Irene wasn't too bad! I had to deal with the annoying volcanic ashes from Etna and it was exhausting
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest Daphne! I'm really happy that we're getting a good pepper crop this year despite the cooler and wetter than normal August we've been having.
ReplyDeleteThe winds were unbelievable yesterday. My pumpkin vine was ripped to shreds. And I'm gonna have to spend time straightening up all of my brassicas today.
Hope you weathered the storm alright, lookslike you got some wind
ReplyDeleteYou take such beautiful pictures of your harvest. Everything looks very tasty. Sorry to see your tree down. Hopefully it's limber enough to be saved.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that Irene was easy on you. I'm a new follower and found you through The Life of a Novice. Thanks for the link-up! Looking forward to getting to know you and many of your followers!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear Irene didn't do too much damage. The harvests look great!
ReplyDeleteWonderful harvest Daphne! I am curious what peppers in the second photo, the brownish ones. Very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you escaped with only minor damages. ?Fabulous harvest!!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear everything turned out ok! Beautiful peppers! I keep waiting to harvest my butternut squash and am thinking our potatoes won't be ready for another month...so...I'll drooling over yours!
ReplyDeleteI will be checking out the damage after work today. I am hoping it is minimal. I guess I will find out in 6.5 hours.
ReplyDeleteMy big harvest last week was on friday as I tried to bring in as much as possible before Irene hit.
Those zucchini sure do get huge seemingly overnight! The peppers are beautiful and the tomatoes look luscious. I'm so glad for you that Irene wasn't too tough on the garden.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that the damage was not too significant. Your harvests look amazing, as always!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are OK. Hurricanes aren't fun. You harvest is terrific. I need to take lessons from you.
ReplyDeleteGood to see your post was not about major storm damage. Those butternuts should ripen up OK if you don't get an early frost.
ReplyDeleteI love your dark bell peppers! Glad to know that the garden was spared overall! Looking forward to more beautiful pics of your harvests in the coming weeks :)
ReplyDeleteGlad that you and your garden were safe!
ReplyDeleteLove all of your harvest. I've got loads of tomatoes, summer squash and apples. The squirrels have been attacking my sunflowers so I had to cut them down and hang them in the garage. Such a bummer because I love watching them turn bulbous and seedy. A true sign that fall is coming! I see all your sunflower heads. Do you cut them down before they are fully seedy too?
ReplyDeleteGlad to see very little damage from Irene. Happy Harvest!!
ReplyDeleteGlad there isn't much damage and that you got those harvest in before hand.
ReplyDeleteI never get to harvest the sunflower seeds, the goldfinches start eating them just as they develop.
Glad your garden is safe without much damage.
ReplyDeleteThose peppers are gorgeous and YAY for the first butternut squash.
Very happy to hear that you made it through Irene.. and that your garden did too! Great harvest this week. All those peppers! Lucky you!!
ReplyDeleteNice harvest. Your plot is really productive!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you were not hit to badly by Irene. They say we are having the remains of her later this week.
Could have done without more rain ;)
Glad to hear that Irene didn't treat you too badle ... I'm still waiting to hear from my father up in Gardner ...
ReplyDeleteThe harvest looks great, what a nice homecoming.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that your damage from Irene was minimal.
Great harvests, glad you made it through the storm relatively unharmed.
ReplyDeleteThose peppers look wonderful. I'm jealous. Glad to hear everything was pretty much ok when you got home. Worrying about it can be stressful!
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest Daphne! Good to hear you made it through the storm too! I heard norther parts of the States and Quebec got hit with a huge amount of rain.
ReplyDeletefabulous harvests as always. i'm glad irene didn't get you too bad. my aunt lives in MD and is still without power.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear Irene did not do too much damage. Lovely butternut squash.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone.
ReplyDeleteLiz, In general most of my sunflowers are not to eat. They are for the birds, but some I do eat. Not many as sunflowers are really hard to eat and I wasn't growing the largest of them.
Green Bean, No I wait until the seeds are ripe to cut my sunflowers down. I've got enough for me and the birds.
Daphne great harvest as always. I am late finishing my post. Glad you garden weathered the storm. Mine did OK have a few tomato plants that need to be restaked but they are just leaning so not in danger. We got 5.8" of rain as if we needed it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful harvest. I like the zucchini. It's good to see Irene wasn't too rough on you. In our community garden, bean towers and tomato cages were toppled and my bean and cucumber trellis was blown down, but the sunflowers were still standing, unfazed by Irene.
ReplyDeleteGreat harvests, Daphne! I'm glad to hear that you didn't have to much damage from Irene. I, too, would have been outside trying to right my garden. :)
ReplyDeletemore more tomatoes... bravo daphne..
ReplyDeletewhat is the purple black thing beside red peppers? look so beautiful.