Monday, October 15, 2012

Harvest Monday, October 15th, 2012

I'm still trying to eat everything in my fridge, but I had to go out and harvest before our first cold spell. I admit to picking carrots just because I wanted them. It is nice having carrot sticks just to munch on for snacks. But I still have a whole Chinese cabbage to eat and pounds of zucchini that has stacked up. I might just have to shred and freeze. Though some I'll keep as that is the last of the zucchini. The plants died in the cold on Friday night. Some of my beans died, but some survived.

Most of the tomato plant died too, but a couple high leaves survived. Not that it matters. Any tomato that had a chance to ripen got picked. It was pretty productive this year. It didn't quite hit 30lbs at least if all those tomatoes actually ripen.

Last night I needed some chard for my pizza. My favorite pizza combo is onions, mushrooms, and chard (or spinach or kale). I saute them in red wine (since I can't have tomato sauce). This time I added zucchini since I have so many. It gets tossed in anything, but I'm not making much of a dent.
  • Beans 0.25
  • Broccoli 0.10
  • Carrots 0.65 lbs
  • Cucurbit 1.00 lbs
  • Greens 0.39 lbs
  • Peas 0.17 lbs
  • Tomatoes 9.46 lbs
  • Weekly total 12.03 lbs
  • Yearly total 590.46 lbs
  • Tally $1124.72

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.

30 comments:

  1. That pizza sounds good. I did not harvest anything this week except a few more peppers. Waiting for the fall garden to grow now :)

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  2. Beautiful harvest! and 30 lbs of tomatoes from one plant is really fantastic!

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  3. The carrots look down right tasty. My kids would love those.

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  4. You carrots look perfect, I'd happily munch through those in one sitting, but then I am something of a carrot fan.

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  5. Love your idea of saute in red wine. I saute in broth but never thought of red wine, bet it gave the chard a great flavor.

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  6. Your carrots and chard look perfect! I'm amazed you still are dealing with so much zucchini so late too! Great harvest!

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  7. Nice harvest again! That pizza really sounds delicious! And what a tomatoharvest on just one plant! Love the chards and just beautiful carrots! Thanks a lot for the condoleanses last week! Hope You will have a nice week! :) Mia

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  8. Those tomatoes look great especially since you had a freeze this week. I am still getting zucchini too and am heartily tired of it by this point. I have been freezing most of it because niether of us are showing much interest in eating it fresh at the moment. I should make some homemade pizza with chard on it for dinner next weekend, sounds delicious!

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  9. Carrots are one of my favorite snacks (and yours look wonderful) and that pizza of yours...veggies sauteed in red wine/ Holy cow, does that sound magical!!!

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  10. WOw, zucchini in October?!?!?! That's fantastic! I have to try your pizza toppings. That sounds great.

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  11. Beautiful carrots. Tomatoes look great too! Nice harvest. I am not getting any zucchini anymore. The plants are still alive but they just aren't producing. The sun just isn't really reaching them since its arch has moved behind the trees for fall/winter.

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  12. Oh those carrots look wonderful! had something eat two batches of seedlings; I really have to get my hoops bent and my rowcovers put on! Pulled my zukes out to plant garlic but there is oh so much more squash out there!

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  13. I love the way you use up your harvests. You are so good. I am afraid I would let some of that spoil before I ate all of it.

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  14. Amazing you still have zucchini. At least you are getting them picked small, which helps with the challenge of using them all.

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  15. I am so jealous that you are still getting zucchini! Beautiful!

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  16. Sometimes frost is a relief. When I couldn't say "We're done," the weather did for me in my Massachusetts garden. (Bi-coastal moment). Here is San Diego, the decision is mostly left to me. Susan

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  17. Looks delicious! You can't be the only gardener to kind of enjoy yanking stuff out. It's good to end as well as begin. Thanks for hosting!

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  18. It is amazing how long zucchini can hang in there, mine just won't give up either, and it will be a while before the first frost hits here... In the meantime, my solanaceae harvests continue also - sorry.

    Wow, it looks like you'll pass the 600 pound mark this year!

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  19. I have not tried chard on pizza. Thanks for sharing. Hope all the tomato will ripe indoors for you.

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  20. A great looking harvest this week. That pizza sounds like it might be worth a try!!

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  21. Beautiful pictures of your veggies. You will be so healthy eating all those! Something ate the little bit of Swiss Chard I planted to the ground. Nancy

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  22. I should try chard as pizza topping... I've hardly eaten any of mine this year, because I just didn't feel like eating it AT ALL. Of course, I have a crappy oven in which I've never managed to bake a good pizza...

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  23. You are getting so many beautiful things from your garden, and I just had to start over and cross my fingers for my first fall/winter garden!

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  24. I love zuccini but I often also end up with a glut might i suggest making a slice cake or muffins they all freeze well. My zuccini and squash are just starting to flower cant wait to pick some.

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  25. Nice harvest. Have to try chard for pizza topping next time, it sounds delicious.

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  26. Great looking chard. We harvested some last week. We've been surprised to see how it just keeps on growing. I hadn't thought of putting it on pizza. Great idea.

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  27. It's amazing you still have tomatoes in October, my plants stopped producing and died during August!

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  28. Daphne looks like your harvests are still going strong even with the early frost.

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