Monday, August 5, 2013

Harvest Monday, August 5th, 2013

I harvested some herbs this week to dry. Some oregano (above) and some sage (below).

My harvest baskets are still nothing to write home about but at least they are more than one bean. I've been supplementing my diet still with frozen squash from last year and spring picked cabbage and carrots. But I want to eat beans - enough to get sick of them.

I harvested some garlic chive scapes for the first time. I've never used them, but hear they are a considered a treat in China. I suppose just like we consider garlic scapes a treat here. I found about half the ones I picked to be tough, so I tossed those out. I'll have to pick faster next time. So for those of you who do use garlic chive scapes, what do you use them in? (Help me Winnie.)

Most of the sweet onions (only a few photographed here though there were over 11 pounds of them) were weighed and put into the tally. I have a few still out in the garden. Once they are picked I've been storing them in the fridge as they go bad fairly quickly and my basement is still too hot for them.

The storage onions on the other hand were weighed and braided. I have some red onions braided too, but they aren't shown. I still have a few red onions drying. They aren't quite dry enough to braid. I do store these in the basement. The storage onions will be able to handle some warm weather and not rot.

And my peaches have started to come in. They are so delicious. I do have to cut off the bad spots occasionally, but some of them are perfect all the way around.

  • Alliums 32.04 lbs
  • Beans 0.10 lbs
  • Cucumbers 2.21 lbs
  • Herbs 0.64 lbs
  • Squash 0.91 lbs
  • Weekly Tally 35.87 lbs
  • Yearly Tally 168.65 lbs, $216.02
  • Fruit
  • Peaches 3.93 lbs
  • Gooseberries 0.88 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.

33 comments:

  1. You braid your onions so beautifully! I am way too lazy to do that, mine just get tossed in a basket. Mmm, those peaches look wonderful. And I hope your beans come in heavily for you real soon!

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  2. Your onions and peaches are gorgeous! Too bad about the squirel damage though.

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  3. I have a feeling all the beans will come at once. I am picking some bush beans, but the pole beans are not even flowering yet. Love the braided onions and the peaches look delicious.

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  4. You can use your garlic chive scapes same as you would garlic scape or scallion. I frequently cut them into about 2-inch length and toss them into stir-fries especially when I have only a few.

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  5. You always have amazing variety in your harvest. I bet you could use the chive scapes to make some soup or dumplings or maybe in some stir fry! The peaches look delicious - I love them but I've developed an allergy to most pitted fruits. I still try to eat them once in a while because I just love them!

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  6. I use the garlic chive scapes in stir fries and also in Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls. Just one per roll is really nice. I too find they go pretty tough if you don't pick them quite early.

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  7. Your onions continue to impress me, especially since they caused you such issues with your health.

    You've also inspired me to make fridge pickles, this week :-) Do you have a favorite recipe?

    Also, how are your solar panels treating you, so far?

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    1. http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/2012/06/thursdays-kitchen-cupboard_14.html

      The solar panels are doing very well. If we had room for two more we could probably get all of our electricity from them. But you have to ask me again in March. By then I'll know how much I had to spend on electricity for the whole year. But so far so good.

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  8. I love the way you braided your onions!

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  9. There's nothing like a good tree-ripened home grown peach! I do hope your beans come soon.

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  10. Nice harvest. You have zucchini and cucumbers but no beans, and I have plenty of beans but no curcurbits. Strange season.

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  11. Hey. At least you have more than just sweet potatoes in your harvest. LOL ;-) Lovely peaches. I'm jealous. Especially after just having the last of ours in Alabama a few weeks ago! It's been months since having any in Florida.

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  12. We are eagerly awaiting out beans as well. They seem to be slow this year!

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  13. I love your onion braids. I tried braiding my onions last year and they didn't turn out the way I expected them to. How long after you pick the onions do you braid them? I think I may have waited until they were too dry and brittle to hold together well when I did it.

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    1. I wait until they are almost totally brown and dry. But it is important when drying them to lay the leaves perfectly flat and straight. Otherwise they just break when you try to braid them.

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  14. Lovely peaches! Any worms, so far? I have started seeing squirrels in my yard this year and fear for my plums and apples.....I don't really keep on top of everything in my garden so I guess I will lose my harvests to these pests! sigh!

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    1. Nope I haven't found any worms in the peaches.

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  15. Your peaches look delicious! We dont have squirrels to contend with but the dastardly possum!

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    1. Oh I have a possom in the neighborhood too. But I've never seen it eat anything from the garden. It does only come out at night though and I'm usually asleep by then.

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  16. Have you done other scapes? If so please tell me which and what you do with them? I will be checking your comments to see if anyone lets you know about the garlic ones. I am intrigued!

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    1. I've only eaten garlic scapes. Not garlic chives scapes. I will toss garlic scapes into just about anything. They are really good on pizza. And fabulous grilled.

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  17. MMMM...just saw the rice paper roll suggestion. I love making those so that is a great idea!

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  18. I wish I could send you some of my zucchini. I really wish I could... Your onions look great, I love the braids. I'm thinking I might have to find some space in my garden for some onions.

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  19. Wow, a beautiful pile of onions and some delectable looking peaches. Your garlic chive scape harvest reminds me I need to plant some garlic. Oddly enough, garlic is really expensive here.

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  20. Your braided onions are so pretty. Could be a picture in a magazine. My peaches are a complete failure this year but yours look so yummy! I don't have any garlic chives or garlic growing so no help there! Nancy

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  21. I'm also eager for beans! Sadly I won' be getting to many onions this year...next year I'm going to remedy that. Scapes are new to me in all their forms so I'll watch and see what ideas come in.

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  22. Wonderful harvest, especially the alliums! We're still waiting to see how our attempts with them do...

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  23. Love your onion braid, so pretty.
    Chive scapes and garlic scapes are interchangeable for me, they basically taste the same except garlic chive scape has thicker stem. I use them in soups, stir fry, salads, infused vinegar/oil, pickled etc. I post 3 pictures of the dishes I made using chive scapes in this week's harvest report. You can keep your chive scapes few days longer if you put them in water as in cut flowers, or you can cut/dice and freeze them.

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  24. Sorry, I meant "garlic scape has thicker stem".

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  25. Your braided onions look stunning. I am hoping for a good garlic harvest this year and I must learn how to braid them.

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  26. I'm surprised everybody is already harvesting garlic chive scapes. I have A LOT of garlic chives, none is showing scapes. I'm thinking of adding them on top of pizza, what do you guys think?

    I think it's great that you can still get peaches, with brown rot and squirrels and all. I got zero fruit, year after year. I might try spraying, maybe there's an organic spray I can use for brown rot.

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