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largest eggplant I have ever picked

Harvested The Two Largest Eggplants in My Entire Life

I have been continuously been picking tomatoes throughout the summer and have finally been getting Romas pretty much at the same time. Beefsteak tomatoes have been quite large along with my cherries and Romas. I had so many Romas last week that I decided it was time to make some tomato sauce for Winter storage. I collected over 20 pounds of Roma tomatoes which is plenty for a large batch of tomato sauce. I made 15 quarts of sauce that I will save for the winter which will make delicious and excellent meals.

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The beginning of harvesting corn for 2022

Corn is The Latest Vegetable to be Harvested in the Month of August

A little bit less than half of the corn this week has been harvested with many more ears of corn not quite ready yet. The ones that I have harvested this year look to be quite good in size and hopefully in taste once I bite into a couple of them. Today was the first harvest of corn and was able to pick 15 ears of corn that weighed 7 1/2 lbs after the husks were removed from them. I think there are at least double that still growing on the stalks.

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Various vegeables harvested recently

Spring Crops That Survived Through the Summer and Into Fall

Right now I still have broccoli and kale which were both planted in the spring still producing leaves and broccoli florets. These are normally planted in the fall, but this is one of those years that I decided to plant them early in the spring to see if they would produce more. Broccoli on the hand was planted to last through the hot summer months while kale just happened to survive this long with some proper care. I did plant some pea seeds a couple of weeks ago and I hope that they will sprout soon. This is the only fall crop I have planted for this year.

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Both red and yellow onions harvested

Following Onions Comes Eggplant and Broccoli Harvesting

It is now prime harvesting time with onions picked out of the totes and now broccoli, eggplants, more tomatoes, and beans are ready. At this moment I probably have picked every vegetable from the garden except for pumpkins which I picked much later and melons that will also come later in the season. I also started picking the second row of corn which is a all white type of corn. They looked very weird, but were actually quite delicious and didn’t taste that much different from any other corn I have grown.

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Spinach plant now added to the garden.

Waiting the Right Amount of Time to Transplant Spinach and Kale

April is one of the busiest of months during the springtime where I like to transplant my cold weather plants into the garden and into totes. I always place my onion bulbs in totes and that is what I have been doing for years. At the moment not all my totes have onions and I have only planted a few red onions into three totes so far. I will fill up the totes with enough onions by sometime this week at the latest.

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Plant Tray

New Seeds Added to Containers For Indoor Sprouting

I wanted to get started with some more seed sprouting indoors now that some time has passed and spring is upon us. Although it is too cold to plant outside I can still get some seeds ready for transplanting when the time is right. I thought it would be best to get all my tomatoes out of the way and start planting my new habanero and Carolina reaper pepper seeds as well. Some long maturing plants such as eggplant were planted and I also got a couple of broccoli seeds in pots for spring growing.

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brussel sprouts and broccoli heads

Year End Broccoli and Brussel Sprout Harvesting

Now that the cold weather is here and a frost has pretty much eliminated most of the garden I now am focusing on harvesting broccoli and brussel sprouts.  I also have a couple of kale plants which I may start harvesting, but they were planted later than my broccoli and may not get big enough to pick before a ground freeze occurs.   Strawberries are also done and they are now covered with straw for the winter along with my rhubarb.

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a few eggplants harvested recently.

Some of the Last Vegetables to Harvest Before Summer Season is Over

Now that it is the month of October it is time to start focusing on the fall season and finishing up on the summer crops. Production in the summer crops have mostly stopped, but there are some vegetables and fruits that need to be picked before the first frost. Peppers, eggplants, and some tomatoes are what is left from this summer season. Carrots are also another crop that needs to be harvested which usually happens later in the fall.

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two of the bigger eggplants harvested this year.

Beans are Mature Enough for Harvesting Along With Eggplants

This will be quite a long post since I haven’t written one in awhile. Many harvests have been happening over the past several weeks. Some of these harvests include many fruits and vegetables. Many of them are the first for the season such as beans, cantaloupes, and even eggplants. I also have my fall crop in the ground which includes both broccoli and kale. These I will be harvesting far into the fall season and possibly longer depending on the weather.

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One large tomato

New Harvest of Beefsteak and Roma Tomatoes and Others Coming Soon

This week there were not that many harvests, but there were two new ones added to the list of already harvesting vegetables. Both beefsteak and Roma tomatoes were picked in the past couple of days. Now it seems all my tomatoes are ready and are ripening in time for an August harvest. Soon I will be picking vegetables such as eggplant, more zucchini, and even some beans.

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