Monday, November 5, 2012

Harvest Monday, November 5th, 2012

All the dried beans had been shelled a while back, but I still hadn't weighed them. So I finally got around to it. Last year I grew 50% more. Next year I'm going to give more space to my beans. I especially want more black beans as I love them so much. I'll probably do an overview post later this week on all the beans. What varieties I grew and the yields on each and what I'm going to change next year.

I picked some more rhubarb. I know it isn't the typical season, but I'm trying to keep that one plant from getting too big. So I beat it back whenever I can. As it has been getting colder more of the stems are getting red. They are so much prettier now than in the summer.

This was my one harvest basket for the week. The chard and broccoli share a row cover so when I went under for the chard, I noticed the broccoli was ready to pick. There was quite a lot of it. The peas are starting to fail. They seem to be plagued by a couple different diseases now. I'm guessing they will die in the next two nights as it gets really cold. I just don't think they are healthy enough to survive. So it might be my last picking of peas
  • Beans 8.05
  • Broccoli 1.22 lbs
  • Greens 1.11 lbs
  • Peas 0.27 lbs
  • Weekly total 4.48 lbs
  • Yearly total 611.52 lbs
  • Tally $1178.11
  • Fruit
  • Rhubarb 1.56

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.

27 comments:

  1. Looking forward to your bean review I'm hoping to dry some beans this year for the first time. I eat a lot of shelling beans fresh but have never managed enough to dry.

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  2. Looking at your colorful dried beans make me want to plant some next year. Like Liz, I am looking forward to your bean review.

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  3. I love how all your beans look in those jars. Great broccoli harvest too and the rhubarb looks yummy.

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  4. Your dry beans look beautiful! I have never tried to grow them, but would sure like to. Also admiring how healthy your chard and broccoli look. Covering them seems to be a great idea.

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  5. I can't wait to read your article about what beans you grew this year and what you plan for next year. I was kind of thinking of writing a similar article with the beans I grew.

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  6. The different beans in the jars make for a pretty picture. You must feel very contented when you look at that on your pantry shelves. The broccoli, chard, and rhubarb all look really healthy and beautiful. My broccoli is not producing much side shoots this fall so I am not getting a very significant harvest from them. Sorry your peas are going down from disease. Even the hardiest of crops here often give into molds and fungus problems in the fall as the wetness we get combined with cool is often just too much for the plants to deal with.

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  7. I love beans! Every year I grow them, and I love ending up with jars of different colors like you have.

    Beans are great for fixing nitrogen, good to eat and the seeds are great for seed swaps.

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  8. To echo everyone else...your beans are gorgeous! I look forward to your review of them! I really need to devote some more space to those guys next year...

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  9. Count me in on reading your bean review too! I'm hoping to have room for dry beans after my garden expansion. I used to grow them in my old garden, and I do miss having them. I'm hoping my rhubarb plants are big enough to start harvesting next year.

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  10. My jars of white beans look so boring compared to your colorful harvest. I too am looking forward to your review. What a nice surprise to find the big bunches of broccoli hiding under the row cover.

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  11. Those colorful beans look very pretty lined up like that in jars. I love growing them and eating fresh but have no clue what to make with dry beans :(

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  12. I'm jealous of the beans! They look great. We tried our hand at some dried beans this year but they didn't turn out all that well. Just a very small harvest. I'd love to see a post that offers a little growing advice!!

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  13. Beans are so beautiful. I'm not sure if I like them more seperated like that or all mixed up like you had them last week. :-D

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  14. I look forward to your post on the beans. Rhubarb is reliable isn't it? I'd love to have your shades of red, but then I'd have your temps. Susan

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  15. I am looking forward to the bean post too!

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  16. Beautiful selection of beans, will you can them again this year? I'm completely envious of your late harvest of rhubarb — all of our plants died back with this summer's drought and heat, and we'll have to wait until spring to see if they've survived...

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    1. When I run out of the canned ones in the closet I'll can some more. I don't need all of them canned as I often remember to make soups and such in the morning. But not always. So I have to make sure some of them are canned.

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  17. I love your Harvest Monday and have blogged mine for the first time. I am growing shelling beans for the first time this year and I'm hoping they look as good as yours. I also regularly need to hack back my rhubarb otherwise it would take over the garden.

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  18. Your jars of beans look so pretty and must give you a feeling of satisfaction to look at them. Nice chard and broccoli. I like red rhubarb better than green. Probably tastes the same! lol Nancy

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  19. I know many have already said it, but those jars of beans look so beautiful!
    I like the idea of growing more beans, but I don't really know how to use them. The only kind of dried beans I'm familiar with are runner beans, which are a typical food for the area of Austria my father is from. Other than that, beans aren't really used much in Austrian cooking...

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  20. You do know that I grow beans through you vicariously!

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  21. Look at you, rhubarb in November! Amazing. My spindly little rhubarb plant made three leaves this year, all pathetically dwarfed. It doesn't do well in southern California. I might move the rootstock to the community garden to see if it does better there. I thought about giving up my community garden plot, but then I saw your photo of dried beans. The only way I will have enough room to grow dried beans or winter squash will be to use that plot in addition to my small beds are home. So I'm keeping it.

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  22. I have been meaning to harvest my rhubarb in a container. It got really big, and I just have not had time to do anything with it. I guess I could cut them up and freeze for later at least. I wonder what your plans are with your rhubarb. I also look forward to your write up on the beans. They are so beautiful!

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    1. Well I have frozen strawberries and frozen rhubarb. You can bet that I'll be making strawberry rhubarb crisp for Thanksgiving.

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  23. Echo everyone, the jars of beans are so beautiful, looking forward to your bean review.

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  24. Lovely rhubarb and beans. I'm hoping that next year I will be able to grow beans to save now that I just put in raised beds. Right now all I have are greens in an Earth Box. Can't wait.

    Yael from Home Garden Diggers

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