Broccoli in The Ground and Many More Beans

This week was another busy week with planting all 47 broccoli plants I had into the ground.  There were actually a few that were cabbage instead of broccoli and those were planted away from my broccoli.  This is just not to confuse them with each other because they both sprout the same.

Once the cabbage begins growing its head and broccoli plants start creating a large stalk it will become noticeable which is which.  Placing them separately is just an easier way of knowing which is broccoli and which ones are cabbage.

I have about four plants of cabbage added to the garden while I still have four that were planted later and will not be added to the garden until a couple of days.  They will probably be put into the garden next week.

The broccoli rows unfortunately were not that straight because I didn’t use a long piece of wood to guide my hole digging.  It is only the middle row that is not straight, but this shouldn’t cause too much of a problem in the long run.

Here you can see cabbage plants in the ground.  There are actually four plants, but it is difficult to see the last one in the row at the far end.  It is one of the smaller plants that made it into the garden.

Now that the fall crop is in the ground I can focus on harvesting my summer fruits.  The first I want to talk about are the twenty pounds of beans I picked this week.  Most of the beans were long and getting fatter by the day.  I knew I had to pick them so I did this yesterday because I wouldn’t have had time today to get it done.

There are still many that are beginning to grow and others that are so close, but have maybe another couple of days to get to the point of harvesting.

I also had some cantaloupes come done from the vines and were already beginning to pull away from the plant.  When this happens I make certain that I pick them because I don’t want them to stay out there off the vine too long because they could start to rot quickly.

As you can see they were definitely good sizes this season and got a total of 12 pounds.  On average they weighed about three pounds each with the largest one weighing 3 1/2 pounds.  These should last a few days as long as I keep them in a cool place or in a refrigerator.  Leaving them out will increase the speed of decay and will start to get moldy if not placed in a cool area.

I even picked a pepper the other day that I needed to make homemade tomato sauce.  I like to make sure when making tomato sauce that I am using all the ingredients that came from the garden.  This includes tomatoes, peppers, onions, and some herbs as well.

I also wanted to let you know about three more cucumbers I happened to pick yesterday as well.  Some of the plants are starting to become less productive while some of the newer ones are beginning to start their productive stretch.