Harvest Monday July 1st, 2013

This week had a couple of firsts. These are the first of the carrots - Mokums. They aren't huge carrots, but they sure were sweet. Usually my summer carrots have a bitter edge to them. They usually aren't as good as the fall carrots but this year they are. Though I didn't photograph most of them, this week I had raspberries with my granola every day. The poor plants almost died last year due to the unusual lack of rain. So the harvest this year is very, very small. Sadly the spring rains didn't come either, so I think our fall harvest (as these are everbearers) will be small too. I ought to water them when the weather is dry, but I really think of raspberries as weeds that can't be kept down.

It was also the first of the brocooli. Those heads were not quite a pound each. Most of it was frozen for the winter, but I had a couple of meals of broccoli last week. I expect to pick more broccoli this week.

I dried my lavender for the first year. I had thought about doing it past years, but it always flowers before I notice. This year I was a bit late. Most of the buds were open, but I figured, better late than never. And I'm kind of stuck on what I would use as a price for these. I put it as the cheapest of the other herbs. I might have to wait until it is dried and then figure it out and change it as no one sells fresh.

The first gooseberries were picked. I've still got some on one plant that I want to let ripen. Hinnomaki Red is so tasty eaten out of hand.

This week saw the end of the first flush of snap peas. I don't think I'll be here when the next set ripen. I'm leaving the plants up. I have one section that will be my seed for next year and I've told my townhouse mates they can pick the other section if they want.

And yet more chard. The section of chard that I mulched is getting shredded. I'm assuming by the slugs. I'll have to sluggo that spot. So as is typical, mulching fails. We just are too wet and have too many slugs and snails. We had 8.9 inches of rain in June. Next year I will leave off the mulch so I don't have to kill the slugs since they won't be there in such quantities.

I picked some more favas. And I finally got a decent sage harvest. Last year my sage plants died. This year I planted two, but then a whole bunch came up from seeds the old plants dropped. So I had little sages all over the garden. Right now sage is growing in five separate spots around the garden. I won't keep all of those spots, but I'll see what lives. I really missed my sage last year.

And this is the week that my tally went positive it also broke 100 pounds. The two often go hand in hand. Last year it was a month earlier, but last year was an amazing year in the garden because of all the heat we had. This year won't be nearly as good.

• Alliums 0.99 lbs
• Beans 1.63 lbs
• Broccoli 1.86 lbs
• Carrots 2.08 lbs
• Greens 3.89 lbs
• Herbs 1.79 lbs
• Peas 2.78 lbs
• Weekly Tally 15.02 lbs
• Yearly Tally 111.85 lbs, $40.15
• Fruit
• Raspberries 0.33 lbs
• Gooseberries 2.58 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.