Last week was the week of little harvests, while this was the week of big harvests. Part of the issue is that I decided to weigh the beans and some of the squash that hasn't been weighed yet. So now all the dried beans are accounted for.
Butternut and Black Futsu Squash
And the squash is mostly counted. I have two I'm not sure that will ripen or not and two I'm pretty sure have no chance at all.
Then there were the carrots. I took all the carrots out of the main bed that were even close to big enough. I still have the circle garden area that gets some real sun in the fall and are much much bigger. If I need them, I'll use them for Thanksgiving. Otherwise I'll use these. Either way the circle garden bed that is surrounded by brick path will keep warmer as we go into winter than the main beds. The main beds just get no sun at all right now. The sun is behind the houses.
In this garden I don't get many deformed carrots so these always make me smile. They are very silly looking carrots.
And last but not least. This week I finally finished up the Asian greens, so picked some more. The white stemmed bok choy was starting to bolt so I picked all that had little flowers starting to form. I'll eat that first. The green stemmed and the tatsoi don't bolt as quickly. The tatsoi won't bolt at all this fall and will keep better during the winter than the bok choy. So that will be the last picked. Fun Jen doesn't keep well either, but I'm just picking it as needed for salads. I haven't wanted many recently. I've been eating soup every day, but very few salads.
- Beans 4.06 lbs
- Carrots 4.33 lbs
- Cucurbits 9.42 lbs
- Greens 2.34 lbs
- Weekly Total 20.15 lbs
- Weekly Spent $0
- Yearly Total 565.62 lbs
- Veggie Garden was worth $1260.23
- Fruit 1.87 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.
Daphne,
ReplyDeleteI also harvested some mutant looking carrots! Funny stuff.
Erik
Comida y Olas
And I almost forgot. Happy Thanksgiving to you, and to all!
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Ha-love the carrots. I have no idea why, but the one on the far right reminds me of frog legs. Too funny.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!
Comedy vegetables are always fun aren't they? I love the texture on the skin of those pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteQuite a harvest Daphne. What varieties are the 3 squashes on the right? Yep, those carrots put a smile on my face also. Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteJust greens today! Hopefully beets soon. Your carrots are beautiful! Happy Thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteAmazing variety of beans you grow! Since you're saving seed, do you have to worry about the beans cross-pollinating? Am also wondering what kinds of squash you have there... Happy Thanksgiving to all!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see such beautiful harvest photos this time of year. The Asian greens look so good, the jars of dried beans are very pretty, and deformed carrots also make me smile. I checked on my squash this weekend and found another pumpkin with a soft spot, so I trimmed and roasted it and will be using it to make pumpkin pie this week.
ReplyDeleteI'm just so happy my arrots are finally GERMINATING!!! :-D
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Daphne!!! I am THANKFUL that you are here every Monday - our gracious hostess of Harvest Monday. :-)
ReplyDeleteFor all those that asked, the squash is Black Futsu (C. moschata).
ReplyDeleteDiaryofatomato, not here I don't. Some insects will cross pollinate beans, but I don't seem to have them here. My seed comes true every year.
I've grown Black Futsu several times - the shape and color of your squashes matches mine, but mine had a smooth skin, not warty. Different strain of seed?? My seed was from Pinetree. I hope they have the taste and texture of the smooth skinned Black Futsu.
ReplyDeleteThose are some interesting skinned squashes! You harvested a significant amount of dried beans this year. It takes a lot of pods to make a cup of dried beans so those big jars with lots of beans are a real testament to your good growing season for them.
ReplyDeleteI am envious of your pile of carrots. I went digging in the old carrot bed this weekend in the hopes I had missed a few but alas I had not. I have some young carrot plants growing in containers in the greenhouse but they are months away yet from being harvestable sized.
Your carrots and squash look great. It wasn't a good year for squash for me. I got only one of my large squashes.
ReplyDeleteCarrots look good, maybe I'll get some this year?
ReplyDeleteGreat looking harvest! I can't wait till my fall veggies start rolling in.
ReplyDeleteGreat carrots! Nice looking beans as well!
ReplyDeleteNice harvest as always. I always have a few mutant carrots in fact any root vegetable as they have to struggle to grow around rocks. I have no way of getting rid of all of them.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great harvest. The squash look great! We don't grow much winter squash around our place, other than a few pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteAll of your harvests this week are exceptional for this time of the year! I think the only thing I have harvested this past week are some herbs.
ReplyDeleteWhat a harvest for late November!!! Love all your carrots.
ReplyDeleteWow, really love those Black Futsu Squash and the deformed carrots! Have a nice day/evening! :) Mia
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest, Daphne! I love the look of the Black Futsu squash. It's so interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat was a nice carrot harvest! Most of my larger ones are in the not quite big enough stage and then there is the younger bed which are nowhere near big enough. Next year I will definitely get more planted on time for fall/winter harvest.
ReplyDeleteWhat great looking squash, I love the texture of the skin. I've heard that they are also very tasty. And the forked carrots are always fun to see and just as tasty as the normal ones. I do miss having home grown carrots, they are always so sweet.
ReplyDeleteThe dried beans in the jars are very pretty. They represent a lot of work. The carrots are spectacular! What a harvest! Do you have your soil checked, and if so, what were the readings? I don't understand why some people can grow carrots and some just cannot if their life depended on it. You have done very well with yours.
ReplyDeleteI got up early so I could do my post BEFORE i go off for bagels with the girls, my Monday routine. I hope I'm not the last to post AGAIN. Daphne, those are some ugly squash. But I'll bet they taste GRRRREAT, as Tony the Tiger said. And of course I'm envious of a 20 lb harvest. Good job.
ReplyDeletegreat fall harvest!! I love little mutant carrots. they always make me laugh!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful beans and cute carrots. Is your Fun Jen heading up? It might be the type of small "celery cabbage" that I'm looking for, I'll have to get some seeds and see if it would grow here.
ReplyDeleteSome of my overwintering carrots are looking pretty weird, too!
ReplyDeletelove those Black Futsu Squash! How do they taste?
ReplyDeleteWhat bounty!!! Congrats!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great looking harvest! That one carrot looked like a pair of legs. lol!!
ReplyDelete~Lynn
Mary N, my seeds were also from Pinetree
ReplyDeleteVeggie PAK, I had my soil tested after the soil was brought in. I had trouble growing carrots in my last yard, but it was heavy clay soil so not too surprising. This soil leans toward the sandy side so the carrots have a much easier time with it.
Mac Fun Jen doesn't really head like a real Chinese cabbage does. It is sort of a mix the way Chinese cabbage grows and bok choy grows. The leaves always grow out from the stem. But unlike bok choy, the leaves are held more tightly to the stem at the bottom..
Stevie, I love the taste of them, but honestly they aren't that much different from a butternut. They weren't nearly as productive as the butternuts. About half as productive I'd say. I might just stick to straight butternuts each year. It would make seed saving easy that way too.
Hi Daphne, found your blog via Liz at Suburban Tomato and love to join in today. Carrots look great and i bet their tasty, what variety do you prefer to grow?
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