Monday, October 14, 2013

Harvest Monday, October 14th, 2013

My daughter got really excited about this harvest. She wants to eat her vegetables, but most greens aren't her thing. Carrots on the other hand she loves. So I picked a nice batch to eat this week. I'll be picking carrots every week for a while until sometime after the first frost. Then I'll harvest them all to store for the winter. The above carrots are Mokum. I also have SugarSnax in the garden, but they take longer to mature. They are full length, but still very narrow right now. I like it when they get about an inch in diameter. I hope they have enough time to fill out.

And I picked the first butternut squash this week. It was a good harvest in that bed. The other bed however had trouble germinating at the beginning of summer. So it is late even though it is Early Butternut. I hope it gets ripe enough to taste good. I've got about the same number of butternuts, but those are about half the size as Early Butternuts are small.

Though my broccoli has been disappointing this year I did get a few spears.

I did have a surprise harvest. I never thought my zucchini and cucumbers would produce anymore this late in the year. Who would have thought I'd get cucumbers in October? Needless to say I wasn't checking the zucchini so that big one got away from me. I see zucchini bread in my future.

The overwintering spinach was big enough to pick a small bit. I had it in a salad. Yum. I don't usually get spinach in the fall. Usually I put it in the ground too late for that, but it was seeded earlier that usual and the seed came up in the heat. I hope the larger plants will overwinter as well as smaller plants.

And last but not least were some kale, herbs, and kholrabi for my townhouse mates. The herbs were too small to really weigh. I tend to only weigh herbs when I pick a large amount.
  • Broccoli 0.31 lbs
  • Carrots 1.56 lbs
  • Cucumbers 4.74 lbs
  • Greens 1.73 lbs
  • Summer Squash 4.61 lbs
  • Winter Squash 31.11 lbs
  • Weekly Tally 44.07 lbs
  • Yearly Tally 447.61 lbs, $888.48

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.

19 comments:

  1. Beautiful carrots and squash! I can only wish for such beauities this year.

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  2. Cucumbers in October is amazing, and spinach at the same time! Great looking carrots too. Mine are not quite ready yet.

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  3. Your spinach looks so glossy and wonderful. I really worry about this weather - our climate is getting crazy!

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  4. Love surprise harvest and you do have a beautiful surprise basket. This sure has been an interesting and unusual gardening year, hoping frost will stay away for awhile longer.

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  5. What a lovely harvest! And that surprise is the best, I cna't imagine a better thing to get this late in the year!

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  6. Great looking harvest! We had several killing frosts this week so all our summer crops are history! It's nice to see someone still getting some summery foods!!

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  7. Wow, those are nice cucumbers for mid-October! Your butternuts and carrots look great too! I have a long way to go with growing nice carrots, they never get big for me.

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  8. Isn't it fun when we get a surprise harvest of something! Lucky you to have enough room to grow those butternuts! Envious of that nice spinach too! Pretty carrots. I am sure they will be enjoyed! Nice harvest for Oct.! Nancy

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  9. An enviable harvest for mid-October! You show us all how to stretch our harvests by planting early and late.

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  10. Lovely harvest. Great carrots and butternut squash! I haven't been checking my zucchini much lately either, I keep getting a few giants here and there...

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  11. Great looking carrots. I am surprised with late cucumbers as well, loving the extra growing weather we are getting here in Southern Ontario.

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  12. Lovely looking carrots and pumpkins, well done. I have given up on carrots and am trying butternuts for the first time this year.

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  13. Your harvests look great this week. I really need to get planting so that I will have something this Summer/Autumn.

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  14. Your carrots are great looking. Mine are really slow to get going this fall. And you butternut squash looks fabulous too.

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  15. Great looking carrots there Daphne, I wish I had that much luck with them.

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  16. Your harvest still looks great, most of the warm season vegetables have quit for me.

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  17. Nice carrot harvest! Lovely butternuts! Mine did really well 2 yrs ago, growing vertically, except everyone refuses to eat it in soup, sautéed, roasted etc., So I stopped growing them (:

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  18. Lovely carrots and fall greens. Hooray for the bonus zucchini! I know you have been missing out on the annual zucchini glut that most of us experience. That will make some delicious zucchini bread.

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  19. Your veg looks great! Well done.

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