Harvest Monday, 7 July 2014

I hauled in what might be the last of the lettuce for a while. I have been doing my succession sowing, but the reality is that the smaller lettuce is looking a bit sad after five days in the 90s. And we have more hot weather predicted for this week as well. But I'll keep trying for my summer lettuce. My next batch has a lettuce called Summertime which is supposed to do well in the heat. Obviously I should have that in there now.

I had several baskets about broccoli, fava beans, and snap peas. The snap peas really needed to be picked every couple of days to keep up with them. Oh my they were good. I even brought about four pounds over to my hostess on July Fourth. She had lost all her peas to the rabbits. So she was very happy to have them.

Did you notice in that last basket? There are two little zucchini. I missed fertilizing them (by hand as the plants are under a row cover right now). But when I checked the flowers were dying, so I figured I ought to pick them tiny.

I had two days of chard harvests. The first was to tame the chard patch that was threatening a prison break from its row cover. It was mostly frozen for winter. The second much smaller harvest was for fresh eating. I could have picked twice as much. I'm always shocked at how fast chard can grow if it rains.

I picked a couple of pounds of the spring carrots and some turnips. This week I'll have to take out the rest of the carrot patch because I need to put my fall cabbages there. I still have a LOT in the ground - or at least I think I do. But they store well. And they have been very good this year.

And last but not least is my fruit. The gooseberries were getting ripe so I picked them all. Some of it was used in a couple of gooseberry pies, but I still have some in the fridge. I'm thinking of canning them for pies in the fall and winter. If I can them with the right amount of sugar it ought to be really easy to toss a pie together. I hadn't thought of doing that before, but it seems like a nice way to go. And in addition to gooseberries, I picked a handful of raspberries about every other day. They went into my morning smoothies. They are petering out about now, but will come on again in the fall.

• Alliums: 0.19 lbs
• Beans: 5.35 lbs
• Broccoli: 7.24 lbs
• Carrots: 2.14 lbs
• Greens: 13.08 lbs
• Herbs: 0.24 lbs
• Peas: 6.95 lbs
• Roots: 1.18 lbs
• Squash, Summer: 0.13 lbs
• Weekly Total: 36.49 lbs
• Yearly Total: 141.28 lbs
• Yearly Tally: $-36.02

• Fruit
• Gooseberries: 5.35 lbs
• Raspberries: 0.14 lbs
• Weekly total: 5.49 lbs
• Yearly total: 8.74 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.