The first of April is usually when I begin planning on putting onions into the garden. In fact I love placing them in totes which is how I grow onions from year to year with good success.
With cooler but warm enough weather for onions to survive right now was a perfect time to get them into totes. I even planted some in the ground as well since I had plenty of onion bulbs left.
Just wanted to let you know that I decided on planting tomatoes a little bit earlier than last season. This year I want to make sure that I get plenty of Roma tomatoes that I can then use to make sauces that I can then store for the Winter.
I thought last years tomatoes were real good and instead of getting all new tomatoes I just purchased the same hybrid seeds I got last season. This includes the Roma super sauce and Steakhouse varieties. If it isn’t broken then don’t fix it is what I say. (more…)
Right now temperatures are too low for plants to produce any more flowers or fruit. The last productive plants that are left and was able to get a late crop from would be the pole beans that are barely hanging on. They will be removed from the garden very soon once I get all the corn stalks cut and ready for burning.
This week I went outside and saw that there were still plenty of pole beans left to pick and decided to get another harvest. I was surprised at the amount that wast left and filled up about four containers worth of these beans. It was enough to make another batch of canning. (more…)
Today I picked the last cucumber of the season making this one of the shorter years for this vegetable. I was able to harvest quite a few which added up to a large amount compared to other years where I didn’t get as many. They also didn’t all come at once which is great because I don’t have to eat them as fast as possible and can take my time with them.
I also saw some pole beans and cherry tomatoes that were ready as well and decided to pick them before they turned yellow or soft. I am still getting pole bean flowers and that means more beans are on the way until the first frost of the season. Cherry tomatoes are done for the most part and I am pretty certain all the other tomatoes are coming to an end. (more…)
It is now September and with the fall season just around the corner my garden harvest is coming to a close for this year. Cooler weather is in the near future and most of my plants have reached their peak or are calling it quits for the year.
Five out of six of the pumpkins I am growing have ripened to the point that I could pick them very soon. I like to pick them later usually closer to the month of October rather than now. Tomatoes are done for the most part with only a couple of plants that have a few tomatoes left to pick. (more…)
It has been busy week after all the harvests that I completed over the past few days. This includes picking pole beans and canning all of them for Winter season storage. Picking as many Roma tomatoes as possible and getting them to ripen in the windowsill. When they ripe it is then time to make tomato sauce with them which takes pretty much all day to accomplish.
Now I have two new harvests to deal with including cantaloupe and eggplants. Cantaloupe I picked a few days ago as well as the eggplant. I had left the eggplant on the bush for as long as possible so that it would ripen correctly and once it reached its peak it was time to remove it. (more…)
Now that it is the first of September the weather should be getting cooler and harvests getting shorter. As long as the temperature is high enough to bear fruit or vegetables I will still be getting flowers from most of my plants. This week it was time for another harvest of corn and pole beans.
Although pole beans will continue to flower through the season corn on the other hand will only grow a certain amount for the year. They are capable of growing at least two per stalk and get get as many as four. The conditions have to be correct in order to get more than two per plant. (more…)
This week was full of a couple of harvests that included my Roma tomatoes, pole beans, and even a couple of ears of corn. I ended up picking some of my Roma tomatoes that were not quite ready yet, but I have placed them on the windowsill which will make them turn red in the end. I will be using these for sauce instead of anything else. That is exactly what these specialty fruits were made for.
The one thing that I will discuss in this post is the amount of pole beans that I picked yesterday and going to pick today. I was only able to just do one row that took at least a few hours of time to get as many as possible. This has been the best harvest of 2014 and it doesn’t seem like any other fruit or vegetable will come close to as good of a harvest. (more…)
The day has finally came where I harvested the corn at the right time and now can enjoy there summer taste. I had checked them during the week and waited until they were just right. It happened to be yesterday where I went outside and started picking all the ears that were ripe and ready for the dinner table.
I collected 24 ears yesterday and they weighed about 15 pounds in total which is I think is great for the first corn crop of the season. Some of them had some caterpillars that were eating the kernels, but other than that there was no serious damage which is also a good thing to hear. (more…)
I didn’t think I would pick as much pole beans as I did today. The pole beans are thriving and there are plenty more of them on all the vines. There were so many that were close to being picked, but instead I decided on leaving them there for the next harvest which should come sometime next week or at the end of this one.
I even had many tomatoes that were ripe for the picking. They would include all three types. Steakhouse, Roma, and cherry were are all in the peak of the harvest season. (more…)
