When I first came home from vacation I immediately picked a melon which never got photographed as I ate it before even thinking about it. But harvest number two of the week was a nice haul of tiny zukes. My zukes seem to want to rot now instead of growing. I wonder if they are all producing only females now. It looks that way. Though there are a few beans here and in another photo, my main harvest of beans was 4oz and also never photographed. Hungry gardeners forget things.
My second harvest was picked because I was dong a stirfry and needed some bok choy. I as surprised to see the melon ripe when I was out. I have one melon left on the vine. Will it ripen? If it does will it taste good?
The broccoli is from my Fiesta plants that were put in during the spring. Last month I stripped all the old leaves off the plant and only left a couple of side shoots per plant. They are slowly giving me just a little more.
I was only going out into the garden to breath the fresh air, but then I noticed it was going to rain soon and a lot of the dried beans were dry. So out they came. Then I found some mini zukes and a cuke. The cuke isn't as big as it looks, the zukes are just tiny.
I haven't gotten around to weighing these yet, so they aren't in the tally. But I had a nice haul of butternut squash. There are about six more left out in the garden that aren't quite ripe enough. I have NO Tetsukabuto squash at all. The vines that threatened to take over the world in the summer just didn't set fruit. Well one set, but it rotted before it ripened. It was a total bust. If it had been a butternut I would have had six more squashes this winter. As it is I'll have enough for my needs. But it is doubtful that I'll have a lot to give away.
- Beans 0.36
- Broccoli 0.16
- Cucurbit 7.38 lbs
- Greens 2.93 lbs
- Tomatoes 0.48 lbs
- Weekly total 11.29 lbs
- Yearly total 461.60 lbs
- Tally $812.51
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What a great harvest! Love the melons! My garden just does not seem to be sunny enough for melons though it has been a while since I tried so maybe next year I should try again.
ReplyDeleteI am excited about your dried bean harvest. I am not posting today, due to lack of pictures. (I took them, but they all came out blurry for some unknown reason.) I am hoping for dried beans later in the month. I have lots of pods on the pole beans, so here's hoping that mine do as well as I can expect. (Fingers crossed.)
ReplyDeleteNice looking harvest. The bok choy looks great!
ReplyDeleteYour butternut squash arrangement is great. I love all the shapes and sizes and most seem to be leaning in to the one in the middle as though its talking. Of course I could be reading far too much into it entirely...anyway its a great haul.
ReplyDeleteI planted a summer squash for fall, but I don't know if it will produce anything. The cooler, wetter fall weather may not suit it at all. It's too bad your squash vine occupied space and then didn't produce!
ReplyDeleteQuite a collection of beautiful butternuts. I too have a squash plant that took over a good part of the garden but so far has only 1 fruit and not sure if it will mature.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like your butternut squash are having a convention, wonderful photo! Glad to know we weren't the only ones that had trouble with growing squash this season — our Delicatas did fine, but our planting of Sibley suffered the same fate as your Tetsukabuto. We had one fruit set but barely got started before it succumbed with the rest of the vines. What a strange growing season it's been.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe that I am missing fresh zucchini? I planted a second round for fall, but the squash bugs and deer didn't let it grow. Very nice crowd of butternut squash. It's strange that the Tetsukabuto had such vigorous growth but didn't produce any squash.
ReplyDeleteWow I sure envy you all those butternuts! Mine only gave me four small ones which are still out in the garden. My second planting of zukes were so big and healthy but only gave a couple of small ones before the squash bugs did them in and then moved on to wreak havoc in the winter squash bed. Love your melon and bok choy too!
ReplyDeleteOh wow...your butternut haul is absolutely amazing! I accidently didn't grow any this year and I'm still sad about it! Next year, they might be all I plant in the way of winter squash as our spaghetti and hubbard squashes didn't fair very well this year.
ReplyDeleteI had some sauteed zucchini yesterday and it sure was good. I love the stuff. I'm still enjoying last year's crop. I did get some this year, but not as much due to squash bugs. Last year I planted in June and missed the squash bugs; this year I planted in March and got their full fury. Lesson learned.
ReplyDeleteWow! Look at all those butternut squash! I wish I could be that successful at growing those! I didn't even try this year!
ReplyDeleteNice haul of butternut. I had a zucchini one year that grew luxuriantly but refused to fruit. I talked to it, cussed it, cut off water and fertilizer, tried hacking off leaves and root pruning it but it was stubborn.
ReplyDeleteAgggg! The butternut squashes are awesome. That's it, even if I look at other fine harvest today, I will still have butternut squash envy. They aren't as common here in Italy, and when I do find them, they are expensive. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWow love the squash. I am going to get a couple someday. Blogger is doing its usual. I can't see mr linky but I did post.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice harvest of butternut squash. How many square feet was devoted to it? I'm hoping for about the same number but need to trim the vines to force them to focus on ripening.
ReplyDeleteI didn't plant any butternuts this year, maybe next year. This year I have tromboncino, baby blue hubbard, buttercup and kabocha. The kabocha is in a new garden bed and not doing as well as the others. In the past I've gotten a lot of huge squash from one or two plants. So far this year there are only a few small ones. Of course we've 6 weeks or perhaps longer till frost, so we'll see how they go.
ReplyDeleteOur butternuts were attacked by some kind of wilt and struggled all summer. I left them in because I really didn't have any thing else to go in that spot. Now all of the sudden they have recovered and have produced 3 fruits. Now it's just a race against time to see if they will ripen before the frost kills the plants in a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteWow, what lovely butternut squashes! Wish I could grow them here, maybe I will have them in the greenhouse next Year (they will never ripe in this climate otherwise)? Have a nice week! :) Mia
ReplyDeleteIsn't it disappointing when you have high hopes for something and it doesn't meet those expectations. We decided to cut down the Greenhouse Watermelon because it was an unmanageable truly crowded mess that was not flowering and getting infested with aphids.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a pain when something takes up a bunch of space in the garden and doesn't produce. On the other hand, what a joy those butternut squashes are, that would definitely be at least a year's supply for me. I did the same with my sprouting broccoli, I cut it down to the nubs and it keeps pushing out enough sprouts to keep me from pulling it out.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive as usual! I only got 3 butternut squashes myself. I have yet to learn how to grow them successfully. Your bean harvest reminds me, I have to go check on my beans. I find it hard to know when to harvest the hard beans.
ReplyDeleteLovely harvest
ReplyDeleteI would sure like to be getting that many zukes! I think mine are done. Great that you got those butternuts. I baked my three today! lol Your bok choi looks great. I will have to try growing that next year! Nancy
ReplyDeleteI just love those squash! They look like they are marching right into the house.
ReplyDeleteThose butternut squash look fabulous! Great harvest :)
ReplyDeleteNice butternuts! They are so good in the middle of winter. My first butternut plant got the wilt or something and died. I planted another one the last week of July and it has set about 8 butternuts so far. We'll see if they ripen in time. Too bad about the Tetsukabotu squash not setting fruit. One of your earlier posts had convinced me to give them a try next year. Now I'm having second thoughts about them.
ReplyDeleteVery nice harvest and really great job on butternuts!
ReplyDeleteGreat butternuts! We harvested them here this week too. It was way to early, but the plant was completely dead. We didn't want to risk them rotting. We think they'll ripen up just fine, but I guess they'll not be as rich as they could have been had they lasted in the garden a couple more weeks.
ReplyDeleteThe butternuts look like those terra-cotta warriors...
ReplyDeleteI love the nice butternut squashes. They look so cute!
ReplyDeleteI still haven't figured out how to peel and cut up butternuts without using a chain saw...
ReplyDeleteVery impressive! You are such an inspiration to the rest of us mortals.
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