Monday, August 8, 2011

Harvest Monday - August 8 2011

Monday's two harvests were full of tomatoes.

Tuesday's harvest was just corn and cukes.
There was no harvest on Wednesday.

Thursday's five harvests had tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, onions, corn and peppers.

Friday had no tomatoes, but potaotes, two melons, and the first onion braid.

Can you say tomatoes?. I picked massive quantities of tomatoes before the first big rain storm in the last month - 1 3/4". I didn't want them to crack. I should have picked more. I'm afraid to go out and check the ones that are left. I've got my work cut out for me today canning.

Sunday had no harvest, but above was the biggest tomato in the garden so far. It is an Amish Paste which makes it more amazing. Paste tomatoes don't have as much water as slicing tomatoes. And yes that is a dinner plate, not one of my little salad plates.

Obviously at over 80lbs, last week was the big tomato harvest of the year. In a week I think I'll be pulling some plants. Most of the black tomatoes have no little tomatoes on them. They have a couple almost ripe, but sadly the heat wave a while back stopped them dead in their tracks. They don't have time to grow and set more so once the ones currently on the vine are ripe, which will be soon, there is no reason to leave them in anymore. The Heinz will all get pulled. They are a paste that produces all at once so that is to be expected. All that will be left is one Cherokee Purple (maybe) and the Amish Paste and Market Miracles. The last two are later tomatoes and weren't as affected by the heat especially the Market Miracles. So they at least will give me tomatoes into September.

I did buy a stool for the garden last week. It was a total of $20. I also rearranged some of my amortized costs. I am going though my fertilizer faster than expected. I've had a lot of successions of things and each time I do that I put down more compost and fertilizer. So I amortized over two years and not three.

  • Alliums 5.64 lbs
  • Beans 0.07 lbs
  • Carrot 0.18 lbs
  • Corn 6.66 lbs
  • Cucurbits 4.83 lbs
  • Herbs 0.37 lbs
  • Pepper 1.61 lbs
  • Potato 3.13 lbs
  • Tomato 81.87 lbs
  • Weekly Total 104.36 lbs
  • Weekly Spent $20
  • Yearly Total 317.03 lbs
  • Veggie Garden was worth $489.48
  • 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.

50 comments:

  1. What a great harvest week for you Daphne! I'm also up to my ears in tomatoes! Keep that canner going!

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  2. That is an amazing tomato haul. My paste tomatoes are just beginning to ripen here. You are going to be busy.

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  3. You have the most inspiring harvests!

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  4. Awesome harvest! I'm so jealous!

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  5. Melons???? OMG-I am so close to getting one. Did it taste as wonderful as it looks?? Jealousy, jealousy!!

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  6. Fantastic harvest - here in Sweden it is not that far yet, but it vill come! My tomatoes is starting to get ripe in the greenhous now! I'm on in harvest mondays from now on. :) Mia

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  7. Wow. 81 pounds of tomatoes is a lot! Have fun canning!

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  8. That is an incredible harvest of tomatoes. How does it compare to your previous garden plot?

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  9. It's definitely tomato season. Have fun canning!

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  10. Wow. 81 pounds of tomatoes. I have no idea what I would ever do with that many toms...Maybe build a small house from them :P

    Very nice harvests, this week, especially that melon. I need to get some delicious cantaloupe this week.

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  11. That is an impressive tomato haul! I am lucky to get 80 pounds total for the year in my growing region - so getting that in a week is pretty darned amazing. Mixed in with the tomatoes was a nice mix of other items too. The melon particularly looked tasty. :D

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  12. Oh my gosh Daphne! I am SO jealous of all those tomato's!

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  13. Beautiful harvest, Daphne! Lots of tomatoes for you!

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  14. I hate to see you tied to the canner, Daphne. I could help you out with some of those tomatoes.

    They are gorgeous. I am drooling.

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  15. Its like Christmas festival at your place with so many reds!!! Our total summer tomatoes for last season can't even sum up to your last week tomato harvest. Beautiful harvest.

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  16. Oh glorious corn!!! What a wonderful harvest!!! Looks like you have your hands full!!!

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  17. Fire up the stove...someone's making sauce! Nice tomato totals this week. I'm still at zero! =0) Enjoy your harvest!!

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  18. Your harvest is so bountiful, and you keep things in such an orderly and beautiful fashion. Very nice! Happy canning.

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  19. What a fantastic tomato harvest Daphne! I have a feeling mine will be much more spread out than the glut you got this week. I'll definitely have to look into the Heinz for next year. They look prolific!

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  20. You're eating melon already? I'm still waiting for mine to ripen up.
    Great harvest, lots of work with those tomatoes, have fun.

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  21. Echoing the others, that is an amazing tomato harvest!! My Paste tomatoes just started rolling in & I look forward to jars and jars of sauce in the near future!

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  22. Oh I am so jealous! I wish I was there to help you preserve them all. I'm sure you could use some help!

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  23. I have tomato envy! Love your harvests! What kind of melon is it?

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  24. What a great harvest. My tomatoes are just setting so will keep my fingers crossed that I get a good crop.

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  25. What a fabulous haul! I can't believe that you are nearly ready to start pulling out your tomato plants when I haven't harvested a single one yet.

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  26. looking good, I wish that we got rain in the summer. Just hot and dry here.

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  27. Hello Daphne!
    What a lovely harvest you show us:)

    I am joining your Harvest Monday again from now on and as long as there is something to harvest here in my swedish garden.

    Take care,
    Charlotta

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  28. Great harvests, Daphne! And I'm still having major tomato envy!

    I'm hoping some of my blogging friends here will take a look at my blog post today and tell me what you think ... I'm hoping this might work ....

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  29. Great Harvest! You must be drowning in tomatoes by now....not that that is bad thing :)

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  30. Fresh potatoes AND corn? That's it, meet me at the airport. What time is dinner? ;-)

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  31. Great harvest, Daphne. I just added my blog. I'm gardening in 180 square feet of raised beds in a community garden in Bolton, MA. I built the beds in May after a very wet Spring left the soil unworkable, so I planted late. And Bolton is probably 3 weeks behind Arlington weather-wise. Still, plenty of season left to enjoy the garden.

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  32. Love your tomatos harvests. All my tomatos are still green...hope they start to get red soon, the summer in Sweden will soon be over.

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  33. Hi Daphne. It's been a while since I've checked in and wow do you every have a great harvest this year! We have been wayyyy behind due to drearybcold weather...so I have only just started to see some tomatoes.

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  34. Wow, 80 lbs of tomatoes in one week! I have trouble wrapping my head around that. Good luck with your canning. The rest of the harvest looks great as usual.

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  35. What a fabulous harvest! That Amish paste tomato looks sensational - I'd heard they were good but somehow imagined them as a small variety - Clearly I was wrong.

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  36. 80 pounds of tomatoes! The mind reels. Hope you find time to sleep. I'm definitely growing Cherokee purple next year - you've convinced me.

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  37. Wow those are alot of tomatoes! How many tomato plants do you have? I have noticed that you keep track of what was spent and then how much money your produce would be worth and figure out the difference. I am just curious how you determine what everything was worth and such. It reminds me of the book $64 Tomato, have you ever read it? Its a great book!

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  38. That is a monster tomato!! Your harvests are always fabulous - thanks for sharing!

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  39. I was thrilled to add up 50 lbs of produce harvested from my garden over the past three weeks. Until I saw that you got 80 lbs just of tomatoes in ONE week. Fantastic! Loved the photo of the melon. It looks so good. I'm hoping for some Moon and Stars watermelon from my community garden plot this summer. I have four that have set fruit.

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  40. Quite the amazing tomato harvest!! You are very inspiring =)

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  41. I am jealous of your melon. I am still waiting on my first cantalope. I check it every day... A watched cantalope never ripens.

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  42. Any ideas about why your onions are so much bigger this year? Last year mine were a nice 3-4 inches but this year the tops have been browning and falling when the bulbs are only an inch or two across. I didn't do anything differently that I can recall :(

    Also that melon looks so yummy. We're waiting on our first to ripen, but so far we've had to compost two watermelons and 3 musk melons WAY before they were ripe due to bunny damage to the vines.

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  43. your harvests are incredible! those tomatoes, my goodness. thanks for the opportunity to share.

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  44. What a great harvest you´ve got there and you´ve grown your own melon...me like.

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  45. I love seeing all the tomatoes! Mine are beginning to fizzle out a bit, though I decided to leave the cherry tomato plants in place for now because they had a new crop of green tomatoes.

    I'm still waiting for the beans to start up again. Lots of flowers and little beans, but that's it.

    Do you use row covers to extend your season? I'm looking at the ones from Gardener Supply along with hoops to try it this fall.

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  46. Everything looks so good but those tomatoes look awesome! I always look so forward to seeing your harvest!!

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  47. Every time I visit your blog I am just amazed at all that you grow. Very jealous about all your tomatoes. I haven't had any ripen this year.

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  48. I'm getting behind again. I've only gotten to a third of the posts so far. So for now I'll just answer questions in the comments.

    Sue, no it didn't. Sadly. This one ripened under the beans that were taking it over so it wasn't as good. But the one I had this morning was wonderful.

    Marcia, which one? Last year I used the rock wall garden. I'm getting more tomatoes, but I have 21 plants. Last year 13 (with one pulled). Each plant this year is producing less. Last year they kept going for a long time. This year the heat wiped a lot of them out. I've really only got four good producing plants left. So not as good of a year for tomatoes, but the number of them planted is making up for it.

    RandomGardener, it is Halona. They are supposed to be 4-6 lbs, but they are much smaller.

    Granny, sorry just ate. Broccoli, tomato salad, bbq chicken, and grilled bread.

    Vanessa, I have 21 tomato plants. Or did until I pulled most of them today. I've never read it, but it was one of the reasons I started doing my calculations. I heard about the book. And Burpee was saying for $25 you could grow $2000 in food. I didn't believe either one of them.

    Nikki, this is the first year in this garden. So it could just be the soil. This soil warms up so much faster than my last garden and it is sandy instead of clay.

    Barb, yes I use row covers. I try to make the garden last as long as possible. I'll even add two layers, one plastic, one remay, to make the season as long as possible.

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  49. Your tomatoes look amazing. I'm drooling. I bought a different brand strainer. I'll let you know if it rusts. My tomatoes are just starting to turn. That's expected in northern Utah. I sliced my first cucumber and two tomatoes and added a little rice vinegar. Yum! I started the tomatoes in my kitchen window. I transplanted the tomatoes in late May and took the walls of water off the third week in June. I have to cut the drip line time in half and then it takes about 10 days. Each year I do that the end of July. I have 22 plants. Any chance you have a drawing of your garden? I've seen the amazing photos but I'd love to see a drawing of how it's all laid out.

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