Monday, August 12, 2013

Harvest Monday, August 12th, 2013

My two harvest baskets this week were mainly zucchini and cucumbers.

And the photos did not by any means include all the cucumbers. I have lots of refrigerator dills now. This coming week I plan to can some pickles. But not many. I don't eat a lot of pickles in the winter. The monster above was made into cucumber salad after I cut out the middle seeds. I missed it because it was hanging off the end of the bed near the fence. Now I check that area too when I pick.

I wrote about them earlier last week, but more onions were put in the tally. Only part of the Ailsa Craigs are left to weight. I think I'll get to them this week.

But by far my favorite harvests were the peaches.

And the corn. (Again not all the harvests were photographed as I tend to pick it right before dinner.) Once the corn started to get ripe we were eating it every day. I'm growing Serendipity. It is strange. It is very long and very narrow. Not like your typical ear of corn. The taste is OK. But we don't love it like Ambrosia. Ambrosia is a much sweeter corn and both Joel and I like really sweet corn. I was trying a new variety because Ambrosia has trouble with germination. Serendipity doesn't. But Ambrosia might just be worth the trouble.
  • Alliums 3.93 lbs
  • Beans 0.07 lbs
  • Corn 3.08 lbs
  • Cucumbers 5.56 lbs
  • Squash 2.01 lbs
  • Weekly Tally 14.65 lbs
  • Yearly Tally 181.33 lbs, $239.91
  • Fruit
  • Peaches 4.14 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.

25 comments:

  1. Corn and peaches, now that says summer! The ears of corn are really long. Very unusual look. Those are lovely red onions. Someday I'll get the hang of growing onions.

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  2. Gorgeous peaches and corn! Nothing taste as good as when it's fresh from the tree! Beautiful onions and cucurbits too.

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  3. Envious of your corn. We just seem to have too many pests.

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  4. Still cannot get the hang of braiding onions and garlic.

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  5. Let's talk about the corn first...it looks delicious, and I thank you for sharing the fact that it's not as sweet as you'd like. I do love a good, sweet corn! Next up is peaches, and they would be my favorite, too! How could they not! Last, but not least, are the onions. I'm with Norma, I still haven't gotten the whole braiding thing down, but then again, I haven't had much opportunity to practice. I am hopeful this will be a banner onion year for us!

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  6. Once again, I am envious of the red onions! They are so pretty. I love freshly picked cucumbers - I've killed mine last year after picking 2 cucumbers so I am trying again. Hopefully I can get a good harvest like yours.

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  7. Those peaches look wonderful, no wonder they are your favorite harvest!

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  8. I see why the peaches are your favorite. They are so beautiful.

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  9. Beautiful harvest. I did the exact same thing with like 3 cucumbers this week!! :) We have grown serendipity in the past too and we weren't all that impressed either.

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  10. Wow, great harvest. Beautiful onions! I will get no corn, the squirrels got it all :(

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  11. Didn't realize you could grow plums in your area. Is it a cold tolerant variety? We reveled in weekly deliveries of 10-15 lbs of Santa Rosa plums from our neighbor in late June and early July. Plums to eat, put into desserts and preserve.

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  12. I'm so glad that you were able to get some peaches. I am absolutely jealous of your corn!

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  13. I'm with you on preferring a really sweet corn. I'd like to know what the sweetest, and I mean SWEETEST, varieties are. I grew Early Sunglow and Honey Select. Honey Select is sweet and tender, but Early Sunglow was tough and rather tasteless. I think it probably cross pollinated, which can do that to sweet corn. It was supposed to be way earlier than the other, but they both tasseled at the same time. Honey Select doesn't need to be isolated from other varieties.

    I want your peaches. :-D

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  14. yes, love those peaches! Looking forward to my cucumbers and hope to get 1/2 as many as you!

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  15. I can see why your favorite harvests of the week were the peaches, they are beautiful. I was reading about corn just the other day, apparently the sweeter the corn the more problems there are with germination, something about there not being enough of the right kind of starch for the embryo to use. It's interesting that that's bearing out in your experience with corn.

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  16. Those peaches look so good that you can almost taste them. Yes corn has to be sweet.

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  17. Great variety of harvest but I envy you the corn and peaches! The peaches look perfect!!! I was gifted with few peaches and the peach pie is so yummy! Nancy

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  18. I'm with everyone else: corn and peaches are the best! Our peach harvest is long over. I miss those sweet peaches and nectarines. I am having a big cucumber harvest and posted a bread and butter pickle recipe on my blog today.

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  19. Beautiful peaches! I don't have space for corn, maybe someday I'll make room for it.

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  20. I am envious of your harvest!!!! those peaches look amazing and what is better than homegrown corn????

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  21. Beautiful peaches and corn! I'd sure love to have a good crop of corn one of these years.

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  22. There is always a cucumber hiding somewhere. Your peaches have made me crave mine, I dont even have bud burst yet!

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  23. Daphne your pickling cucumbers are beautiful! I had no luck this year with my pickling cucumbers, thanks to cucumber beetles. I want to make pickles this year, so I guess I will have to go to my local farmers market and buy them.

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  24. Beautiful peaches!! I've got some plums coming soon:)

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  25. I have to say I tend to favour difficult to germinate over easy but lacking in flavour. My favourite variety of bush beans (Jade) germinates at about a rate of 1 in 6 but I still persevere because I really enjoy their flavour and texture.

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