Harvest Monday 10 November 2014

The big harvest this week was the last of the fresh eating carrots. I dug them up in two batches after having to go out and pick them in the snow. I didn't want to do that again and as the season progresses it will become more and more likely. I'm happier getting the carrots I need from the fridge. I also picked some other root vegetables. Radishes, turnips, and the first of the parsnips. The parsnips were quite good, though they are small. You can see that the Mokum carrots are so much larger. But I'll take what I can get. They didn't get planted until after the kale came out in early June.

I also picked enough bunching onions to last the week. I figure I'll do that again this week and until the onions are gone or they are too frozen to pick. I was picking them as I needed them, but with the change in the weather, that changes too.

Though most of the green that I ate was the cabbage picked the week before (and now gone), I did pick some broccoli. Yum. I have one more big head out there and maybe a small side shoot. I'll pick that this week then I can pull all the plants.

I picked all the cilantro and parsley and washed it up and froze it for the winter. I hope it is enough to get me through the winter, but I doubt it. I'll probably end up buying some cilantro and reverting to dried parsley which isn't as good later in the spring.

And last but not least and definitely the most work. I winnowed out the seeds I harvested a while ago. But that means it can get into the tally. I only tallied up about half the dill as the odds of using so much are slim. (I have about four times as much dill as fennel.) I do use a lot of dill seed as I use it in rye bread as it is almost the same taste. A cup of dill seed means eight loaves of rye. Or in my gluten free case, mock rye bread. And then I'll make a lot of dill pickles next summer too.

Unphotographed for some reason is the celery harvest. I harvested about 5 pounds of celery, but only about two pounds was usable, so that was what got into the tally. Celery is always a challenge. And for some reason the ants love it. I decided not to freeze it this time as I should have no trouble going through it as it is soup season.

• Alliums: 0.64 lbs
• Broccoli: 1.37 lbs
• Carrots: 10.80 lbs
• Greens: 1.90 lbs
• Herbs: 3.58 lbs
• Roots: 3.29 lbs
• Weekly Total: 21.58 lbs
• Yearly Total: 680.04 lbs
• Yearly Tally: $1236.37

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.