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Complete Onion Harvest and More Tomatoes

Yesterday I was able to get the entire onion harvest completed.  It doesn’t take long to take out onions once you get started it goes very quickly.  All I do is pull them out and brush off all the loose dirt and place them in a large container.  Since I have five totes full of onions a small bucket will fill up very fast.

In total I was able to get over 30 pounds of onions and a count of 95.  It seems like placing twenty bulbs in the beginning is the right amount you can place in these size totes. (more…)

Harvested One Tote of Onions and Two More Tomatoes

Today was a warm day and after about a couple of weeks of my onion bulbs falling over I decided that it was time to pick them from the totes.  I only do one tote at first to see if they are ready and are not beginning to rot or become infested with maggots.  Once I inspect them and they seem good to be eaten then I work on the other totes.

I didn’t do all the totes today because some plants were still in the process of falling over.  Picking them too soon is just as bad as picking them too late.  I will most likely get the rest of them tomorrow.  It’s a very simple process and if you do them in totes they come out of the soil incredibly easy without having to use a shovel and dig them out. (more…)

Picked First Steakhouse Tomato

Today will be a quick post because I harvested the first steakhouse tomato of this season.  Only one was picked because it happened to be the perfect color that you would love to see with any tomato.  There were two others on the same plant, but they were not quite ready.  I will probably pick them in a couple days at the most.

 

 

First Steakhouse Tomato (more…)

Cantaloupe, Eggplant, and Corn on The Way

This past weekend we received some well needed rain.  This meant that Saturday and Sunday were very slow gardening days.  The only thing I did was pick some blueberries during a short period of no rain.  I collected as many berries as I could before it started to pour.  I was able to grab about two and a half pounds.  This has been the average for this season.

Today was the first time that I went outside to check my garden before the storms hit this weekend.  My pole beans are growing great and I should be getting a harvest from them any time now.  I picked some more bush beans which are probably going to be the last that I receive from them.  Now it is up to the pole ones to pick up the slack. (more…)

Tomatoes Beginning to Ripen

I knew that cherry tomatoes were starting to turn red a week or two ago, but I thought the others would take much more time.  I went outside to pick some cherry tomatoes that were ready and I noticed that many others including Roma and steakhouse were no longer green.

Not all of them are starting to turn but the older ones that have been around for about a month or so are now beginning to ripen.  I would estimate that they are going to be ready before the end of the month.  It doesn’t take long for them to turn once they start heading in that direction. (more…)

Corn May Be Coming Soon To My Garden

It was only a couple of days ago that the tassels began to grow from my corn and it looked like that I was going to get some corn in the near future.  I went outside today and discovered that there were some silks appearing from one of the corn stalks.  This was the first sign that I could be getting corn in a week or so.

Granted this was only one corn stalk, but it signaled that my corn was growing correctly and I have been doing something right.  I would be very surprised if this was the only stalk that began growing ears of corn. (more…)

July 28 Garden Progress Update

It has been a while since I last wrote a post on this blog and I thought it would be good to give you a quick update on what is happening so far.  I now have four pumpkins that are growing in the garden and I may have a fifth one coming soon.  I have been taking pictures of them so that I can easily see their progress over a short period of time.

As you know my zucchinis are coming in one after the other and I don’t see any sign of them slowing down.  Blueberries are starting to wind down and today I think I reached the peak of the blueberry season for this year.  Tomatoes are doing good and will be ripening very shortly as long as the warm weather holds up. (more…)

Cherry Tomatoes and Cucumbers

The latest fruits and vegetables that I harvested this week would include cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.  It took quite a while before starting to see tomatoes turn red this year.  I have many other tomatoes that have not began to turn, but will soon do so over the next couple of weeks.  They will probably all start ripening at the same time.

Cucumbers were also picked this week, but only one of them was ready enough to be harvested.  The others will come in time now that I am starting to see more and more of these vegetables on the vine.  I would say about mid August will be the peak of the season for cucumbers and probably everything else as well. (more…)

First Green Bean Harvest of 2014

Today was a busy day with the harvesting of green beans, weeding both green beans and corn, and more blueberries to pick as well.  I will have to finish setting up my bean poles so that my pole beans can start climbing up instead of attaching itself to anything it can find.  That I will do tomorrow if the weather is any good.

Tomorrow there is a slight chance of thunderstorms throughout the day and I decided that it would be a good idea to start harvesting the vegetables and fruit that were ready.  This included my beans and more blueberries.  I collected about two pounds of beans from my bush plants and three pounds of berries. (more…)

Three Zucchinis Picked and Some Blueberries Too

Today I had the opportunity to pick three more zucchinis that were well past ready and they are some of the biggest I have ever grown.  Two of them were about normal size while one of them I could barely hold it in one hand because of its large diameter.  It weighed five and half pounds which ended up being the heaviest zucchini that I have ever picked.  There are others that will be picked very soon as well.

Blueberries were picked recently and after a few more days with lots of sun many more blueberries were ready to be harvested again.  The ones that were close to ready the first time have now been picked on this second time.  I collected about a pound and a half this time.  There is still plenty out there which I can use to make some delicious desserts. (more…)