Monday, November 7, 2011

Harvest Monday - November 7, 2011

I've been picking carrots in bunches and them using them up over a week or two. I had run out so I picked another batch. These really aren't quite full sized, but I don't think this bed will ever get there this year. So I've been picking out the ones that seem big enough. I'm leaving the really good carrot bed for Thanksgiving dinner and winter storage.

Earlier this week I wrote about my dried beans. Well when they are dry enough and ready to be stored I weigh that variety. So far I have three all weighed up. I don't store them in bag, but in glass airtight canisters.

The chard was looking worse for the wear after all the frosts and freezes we have been having. I figured it was just going to go downhill from here, so picked it. I only kept about a quarter of the leaves as the others were wilting and dying. I should have picked earlier. I'll have to remember for next year to keep it covered or pick it earlier.

Yesterday for lunch I wanted a salad. So I went out and picked a full sized Fun Jen head. I paired it with some carrots and onions from the garden, and an apple from the farmers market.

  • Beans 3.80 lbs
  • Carrots 1.38 lbs
  • Greens 2.08 lbs
  • Weekly Total 7.26 lbs
  • Weekly Spent $0
  • Yearly Total 545.44 lbs
  • Veggie Garden was worth $1204.31
  • Fruit 1.87 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.

33 comments:

  1. Beautifuuuul carrots. I feel inspired of trying to save some dried beans this year. I never tried cooking dried beans. Hope you share some of your secret recipes.

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  2. Gorgeous carrots, so wonderful to wake up to the sight of them! What kind are they?

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  3. Your carrots are gorgeous! Ours all got pulled and the newbies in the ground won't be ready for some time :-/ Next time I'll plan better!

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  4. I must grow the different colored carrots next year you inspired me.

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  5. diaryofatomato, they are a mix of SugarSnax, Mokum, and Purple Haze.

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  6. Your carrots are just beautiful Daphne! Carrots are a treat around here this year! I had such a hard time getting the later crop growing. They would just die from the extreme heat we had.

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  7. Lovely crop, Daphne! I have to put my beans i lovely jars, as well. Lovely post and picture on 2nd november:)
    Take care,
    Charlotta

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  8. Lovely carrots. I picked the chard before the snow and now there's not much left out there. Maybe it will rebound a bit with the relatively warmer temps this week.

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  9. I will join the chorus in praise of the carrots. We lost most of our main crop to carrot fly this year and only managed to get a smaller crop going mid season for the fall harvests which (thankfully) were spared the carrot fly problem, but we raced through using them and now I am going to have to wait until the young ones in containers in the greenhouse grow to harvestable size. I will be waiting a while. :D

    I really need to see if I can find seed for Fun Jen. It seems like a nice alternative to napa cabbage and very productive.

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  10. Laura it is a nice alternative. It is more lettuce like than a napa cabbage, but I have to warn you. The slugs LOVE Fun Jen. It is easier to grow though if the slugs don't get out of hand.

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  11. The combination of purple and orange carrots is sooo pretty!

    For some reason I can't link up today... I'm getting an error about putting ' in front of and behind my link... is this normal? Anyway, here is my post:

    http://shanonhilton.blogspot.com/2011/11/around-yard-cold-hardy-greens.html

    --S

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  12. Again, beautiful photo, but what intrigues me most are your dry beans..how many feet did you grow for yourself this year, and what was your tally (toy probably have that broken out, I should look again)? I am enticed to try. I've always thought they'd not yield enough to make them worthwhile.

    -Randy

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  13. Wow, your carrots look beautiful. My current batch of carrots has huge cores, and not much flesh around the core. It is the first time I have had this dilemma. Weird.

    My harvest was pretty small this week. Please check it out at Comida y Olas. Thanks!

    Erik

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  14. Randy, once all my beans are dry I'll probably do the calculations for them all and figure out which ones did well. I grew 13 varieties I think this year and so far only three have been weighed. Though admittedly two of my best producers.

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  15. Shanon, I put your link in for you.

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  16. Wonderful carrots! My weather is milder than yours - so I am still about a month away from a carrot harvest, but I hope mine turn out how yours did. The beans look awesome! I have been looking for some Cherokee Trail of Tears bean seeds. I really want to grow those next spring.

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  17. Yes, awesome carrots - but I prefer the beans (with their promise of good things to come in the depths of Winter...)

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  18. I've got a bed of carrots that isn't sizing up very well too. I've decided to pick the biggest and leave the rest for spring. They should size up starting in March. Of course this bed is covered by a cold frame or they wouldn't make it till March in my climate. As long as I get them picked in March before they try to go to seed they should still be good!!

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  19. Your harvest looks wonderful! And those carrots! Beautiful!! I can't get them to grow here to save my life. Don't know why. They just don't. As usual, your pictures are beautiful!

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  20. What beautiful carrots! I had terrible luck with carrots this year and I miss them. I love the colors in your photo.

    You ended up with a nice amount of chard leaves even though you had to sort through them. Lovely.

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  21. I hear that carrots are delicious after it gets cold. Next year I am planning on it if I can keep the grasshoppers under control. You're look delicious.

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  22. Oh, those carrots! I really need to put in carrots next year - they look spectacular!

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  23. I love those sunset looking carrots. Our Swiss Chard is looking less than beautiful lately too though today is a wonderfully frost free day for so late in November.

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  24. There's nothing like carrots fresh from the garden and yours are beautiful. Wow, your garden was prolific this year - 545 pounds and you didn't even weigh all the harvests!

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  25. Mmm, lovely carrots, greens and beens there! Didn´t have the real strength for a harvest today, cause i got a cold, but there is still some chilis to harvest, so i will harvest for next monday, just watered and photographed the plants today! Have a nice day/evening! :) Mia

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  26. Love the purple carrots! I grew dry beans for the first time this year and they did great! I did plant too little of too many types, but I know which ones do the best now, so I'm looking forward to next year's harvest. I tried the "Tiger's Eye" beans based on one of your posts ... Thanks! They are great!

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  27. Beautiful carrots! They look delicious, and very nutritious! Your salad sounds delicious, too!

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  28. Great harvest. I'd really like to try some of the hearty Asian greens that you have such great success with.

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  29. My carrots didn't work out in teh spring, bt I out seeds out again a few weeks ago and they have just poked up.

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  30. Lovely, gorgeous carrots. I grew some Kyoto Reds this year, great flavor.

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