Monday, August 10, 2015

Harvest Monday, 10 August 2015

Ah summer. It really has some of the most wonderful harvests. The largest harvest this week was the peaches. They are really small this year, but still delicious. I probably should have thinned them better to get bigger peaches. The peaches are a condo harvest which means the trees are owned by both townhouses - for those that don't know I have a shared city yard. The veggie garden proper is mine and the wall garden, but all the landscape trees and bushes are shared which means half that fruit goes over to them.

The second biggest harvest is the corn. I have more than in the photos, but those were the biggest. As you can see not all of them are fully pollinated. Sometimes the edge ones don't do as well. But they are all tasty.

And of course lots of cukes and not nearly enough zukes. I have enough zukes to eat fresh, but not enough to freeze yet. They seem pretty steady at 1.5 pounds or half a pound per plant per week, which is pretty dang bad. I need to try another variety next year, though I love Costata Romanesca for its taste.

And I got a few greens too. I harvested some amaranth and broccoli side shoots. I don't take off the leaves of the broccoli as I eat them too.

The turnips didn't go into the tally. Last time I had turnips I had to cut a lot of bad parts out. I'm guessing these are just as bad. Together they make one picking, but not by themselves.

And last but not least the alliums. Green onions (not leeks even though that is what they look like), sweet onions, and storage onions all braided up and ready for the basement.

Needless to say it was a really good harvest week.

  • Alliums, 20.71 lbs
  • Beans, 0.19 lbs
  • Broccoli, 1.31 lbs
  • Corn, 6.28 lbs
  • Cucumbers, 3.87 lbs
  • Greens, 1.17 lbs
  • Herbs, 0.17 lbs
  • Summer Squash, 1.66 lbs
  • Weekly total, 35.35
  • Yearly total, 306.63 lbs, $680.82
  • Peaches, 8.85 lbs
  • Fruit Yearly total, 46.36 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.

31 comments:

  1. Your onions look so amazing!! Especially those spring onions. I have had a terrible time with spring onions this year - bad location, bad seed, I haven't had any at all. I've never heard of the shared city yard concept ... interesting. What a shame to have to share those beautiful peaches.

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    1. A lot of people in this neighborhood have multifamily homes. Usually it is two units in one building and they are one on top and one below. Ours is different as it is a townhouse style building. We have the two units side by side. And since there are two homes to the building, both families share the yard too. Once upon a time it was families that owned them and parents would be in one and grown kids in another. I've got two neighbors with elderly parents living upstairs in their own units. They have lived there all their lives.

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  2. There's nothing like a homegrown peach! Those pretty onions too. I lost a lot of mine due to rot.

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  3. I am so envious of your homegrown tree ripened peaches. Onions do not do well in my garden got to do some reading to see if I can find the reason, am thinking it could be soil pH..

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  4. The peaches look wonderful. We have lots of orchards around us so have been buying bags of them. If you are growing the OP version of Costata Romanesco, try Renee's version next year. That's what Michelle grows, and me this year. It is very productive.

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  5. Peaches and corn--it must finally be summer! Really nice looking stuff. It's odd that I have the opposite situation--plenty of squash and few cucumbers.

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  6. I'd love to be an eater at your house this week!

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  7. Peaches, corn, and onions! I wish we had more space. I'm especially envious of your onions.

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  8. Our corn is a long way off harvesting stage.

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  9. oh WOW! What a wonderful harvest of corn and peaches!

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  10. Those peaches look awesome! I am so looking forward to our new tree producing in a couple of years!!

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  11. Lovely harvest you have there. I think I may try corn next year. Tomato plants have been dying off too fast I think I need to take a break and hope the blight dissipates. Do you think that will work?

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    1. Well it is always good to rotate your crops. I used to do a three year rotation for tomatoes. Though blight always comes in eventually. It gets blown in on the wind.

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  12. Oh yum, peaches! I hope our peach tree eventually produces - I've already seen some black knot and canker on it, which is a very bad sign. Your onion braids are so pretty - I braided some of mine last year, but they didn't look nearly as nice.

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  13. You did have a great harvest this week! Summer harvests are so wonderful.

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  14. Great harvest, beautiful peaches, wish I have some.

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  15. Nice peaches, there is nothing better than a fresh tree-ripened peach. I wanted to plant a peach tree this year but couldn't find a spot free of tree roots.

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  16. What a treat to have fresh peaches! I love your braided onions - they look so pretty! Hope you find a zucchini that produces better for you next year.

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  17. Yes, I was thinking your plaited onions look great too! I haven't bothered doing mine this year, they're just lying on a kind of chicken-wire hammock in my shed on the allot.

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  18. Your peaches look lovely! I didn't think that they would grow up North. I'm glad to see that they do. :) That is an impressive onion harvest too. I like the way that you braid them for storage.

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  19. So many good things but especially yum, yum, yum on the corn and peaches!!!! Nancy

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  20. A nice harvest Daphne, the peaches and corn especially, yum!

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  21. Well done! Mmm, you had me at "fresh peaches" and "corn", ha.

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  22. What a wonderful harvest of peaches. How old are your trees? Gorgeous corn and beautiful braided onions too.

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    1. I have two trees. One was planted last year, so nothing yet. the other was planted in 2011. It started producing in 2013 and just keeps pumping out peaches. It is a dwarf Redhaven tree.

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  23. So many onions! I'd love to hear more about how you store the onions through the winter.

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    1. I just hang them in my basement. They don't keep all that long as I have every disease known to allium kind in my garden. But they last into January.

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  24. Daphne- Your onions put mine to shame! What a lovely braiding job you do. And your corn and peaches just scream Summertime.Great harvest this week.

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  25. You are getting a wonderful mix of vegetables. Isn't it wonderful having lots of corn and cucumbers; a sure sign of summer even though fall is just around the corner.

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  26. Everything looks great! Fresh peaches. I am drooling!
    Finally linking up!!

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  27. BEAUTIFUL harvests!!! I have been GORGING myself on peaches lately and yours look so delicious.

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