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Potatoes in Ground

Digging Up Potatoes Before The First Frost Arrives

It was finally time to start digging up my potatoes which took much longer than previous years of growing potatoes. Normally Yukon gold was my favorite potato to grow and it still is, but this year was very disappointing. Not many Yukon potatoes sprouted which gave way to very few plants which in turn equals very poor harvest. On the other hand I also planted Kennebec seed potatoes as well and they provided a very good harvest this year. This definitely made up for the poor performance I got from all my Yukon gold favorites.

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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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holding four strawberries in my hand.

Time to Spring into Action

Now that spring weather is warming up it is time to get gardening right away. Although the month of May was not very cooperative in terms of temperatures June seems to be much more normal. I have pretty much planted everything into the garden from my dill and alyssum to my tomatoes and my spring crop. There were a couple of rain days recently and I wanted to take advantage of that so I moved as fast as I could in order to get all to most of my plants into the ground. There are just a couple of tomatoes that I will have to add to the garden, but for the most part everything is either planted or sowed.

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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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Just some corn from the first harvest of 2021

Zucchini, Cucumbers, and Even Corn Harvested

Now it is harvest time with several plants that are ripening with many vegetables for hopefully a good continuous harvest. I hope that these plants continue to grow and thrive as long as the weather is good they should produce a good crop for the season. Corn will eventually end much sooner than the rest of my garden, but I am going to enjoy whatever corn is picked. There are some others that are almost ready to pick such as tomatoes and possibly an eggplant real soon. I also have many pepper plants with peppers growing on them and they should start being harvested as well.

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Two cucumbers

Many Vegetable Harvest are on The Way This Year

Right now there are many harvests that are going to be coming very soon now that most of my plants are producing flowers and fruit. I have so far been picking mostly my strawberries and kale. My strawberries are all done for the season and my kale continues to grow and as long as it produces more leaves I will harvest them. Some of the plants started to go to seed, but I was able to catch it time and cut off the bolting part of the plant. Let’s get into what I will be picking in the near future from my garden.

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three large strawberries in my hand.

May: The Busiest Month of the Garden Season

May is probably one of the busiest months of the garden season because this is when most of your plants are transplanted, seeds are sown directly into the garden soil, the rest of the garden is being tilled, and even strawberries are starting to turn red and ripening for a June harvest. Right now all I have left to put into the garden are my pepper plants, eggplant, and hopefully some melon seeds into the soil as long as there is still some room after my transplants are settled into the ground.

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tomatoes, peppers, and beans

The Latest Harvesting: Tomatoes, Beans, and Green Peppers

It’s been a long time since my last post, but I am still gardening and have some more harvests to discuss in this article. So far I have finished harvesting my radishes which were done a couple of months ago. My lettuce is also finished and once the hot weather came they were no longer able to produce new leaves and eventually turned brown. Peas did not do well this season and now that summer is here they are done as well. With a new weather season means new harvests to do and more vegetables to pick for the next couple of months until the next season, fall.

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