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.
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…)
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…)
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…)
A busy weekend has gone by and I have some great news about some of my vegetables. Pumpkins have began to come through and are getting bigger every day. They have reached the size of a softball right now, but they will get bigger before they start to turn orange.
Cucumbers are also starting to grow and many of the plants are producing many flowers which will eventually lead to a large harvest. Having them in June is the best time to have them. Although they came a little bit later than last year I still think that I will get a good amount to enjoy for the rest of the season. (more…)
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…)
The past two days have been quite busy especially with all the weeding I had to do through the entire garden. The bad thing about getting rain is all the weeds that grow real fast around the plants. If you do not keep an eye on your plants these weeds can easily overpower any plant making for a real poor harvest.
Not only was I able to get most of the weeding completed I even had time to finally plant the rest of the tomatoes into the ground. They were part of the later crop, but they should be able to produce enough tomatoes with the time that they should have left in the season. (more…)
