Harvest Monday, 14 July 2014

I picked the first two out of three cabbages this week. They are just small Early Jersey Wakefield cabbages. They are supposed to be about as fast as the Chinese cabbages I grow, but they take a lot longer. In previous years I had my rotations so they had to be pulled out too early. But this year I'm letting them size up. I do love coleslaw in the summer. And that sole zucchini . . .

Well it became chocolate zucchini muffins, 6 of them (Dave's recipe). And the other half was grilled last night.

Also on the grill were three onions. They aren't quite sized up yet as you can tell from the shape. But they are big enough. I plant way too many sweet onions every year. They only keep a couple of months if that. So I figured I'd start on them early this year. They are so good grilled. I didn't eat them all last night, but figured I wouldn't have trouble adding them to something - like maybe a sandwich.

I picked a lot of scallions too. I had to remove them to plant something else. So now I've got to figure out what to do with a ton of scallions.

The last two broccoli heads were picked. I still have one in the fridge. I hope those side shoots start up soon as I really like eating large quantities of broccoli.

The first few beans are trickling in. And wonders will never cease. I'm keeping up with the chard harvests. I harvested twice this week. I was thinking that chard sounded good and lo and behold, just four days after picking it, I could pick it some more. Chard grows so fast. I hope I keep picking it too. Chard is so much easier to deal with when there is 13 ounces. Where there are six pounds it just gets out of control.

And the spring carrot bed was cleared out. There were a handful of tiny and forked carrots that I tossed, but most of them were pretty decent. These need to last me about eight weeks before the next set of carrots start to ripen. Since they store so well, I divided them up so I wouldn't eat them all at the beginning. Or worse think that I don't want to eat them now because I'd miss having them later. Now every two weeks I know to finish that batch up. I find I've been eating carrot sticks most days for lunch along with turnips and kohlrabi sticks. Though I only have one kohlrabi left.

And on the fruit front it is mainly currants. They were planted last year, but still gave me a small batch to pick. I also eat a few raspberries here and there, but they never make it into the house. I ought to be eating the alpine strawberries. I noticed them the other day and they are all over. Maybe I'll get out to pick a few. The yellow ones are my favorite.

• Alliums: 3.31 lbs
• Beans: 0.11 lbs
• Broccoli: 1.66 lbs
• Carrots: 9.08 lbs
• Greens: 4.73 lbs
• Herbs: 0.04 lbs
• Squash, Summer: 0.82 lbs
• Weekly Total: 19.74 lbs
• Yearly Total: 160.84 lbs
• Yearly Tally: $7.72

• Fruit
• Currants: 0.48 lbs
• Yearly total: 9.22 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.