I wanted to let you know about a couple of harvests of vegetables I completed today. First off one steakhouse tomato was ready for picking and was a very large one that weighed one and a half pounds. (more…)
Cherry tomatoes came first and now both of my Roma and steakhouse tomatoes are now on their way to a ripening pinkish red color. There are only a few of them changing colors, but soon the rest will follow. With plenty of sunshine they will turn much faster and will be harvested earlier. (more…)
It looks like I will be harvesting some fruits and vegetables soon in addition to the ones that I have already been picking. So far blueberries, lettuce, and peas have been harvested and most of my Spring crop is all but finished. I have picked a third harvest of blueberries and still more bushes need to be picked. (more…)
It is that time of the year where the harvests are getting smaller and smaller and cleanup of most of the garden will commence. I still have a few melons, tomatoes, and eggplants still growing, but for the most part they will not be that big of a harvest.
The good news is that now we are going into the fall where my broccoli, cabbage, and kale can thrive in the cool weather. I will be soon starting to pick harvests from them. I will give them another month before I actually start thinking about harvesting them. (more…)
It looks like most of my garden plants are winding down and no longer producing any more flowers or fruits. My tomatoes are probably the last plants that are still growing fruit and I think I have just a few more harvests from them.
My bean plants are pretty much done for the season and today I just picked the last large harvest of pole beans. It wasn’t as big as past years, but it is definitely a good amount to store over the winter. (more…)
I was looking forward to picking the first melon of the year and I thought that it was going to be one of my cantaloupes. I was hoping that my honeydew would be ready by this week, but instead one of my cantaloupes had disconnected from the plant meaning that it is ready for harvesting.
I also picked some more steakhouse, Roma, and cherry tomatoes. I did not pick as many cherry tomatoes as my previous harvests, but at least I got a few Romas to make up for it. (more…)
My first bean harvest which was about a week ago didn’t yield that many beans or as many as I thought I would get. The second time I ended up getting many more including two full bowls of pole beans.
I have harvested more in other years, but I think that this is a good amount and is enough to start canning and storing them for the Winter. The plants still are producing and I am sure that I will be harvesting more beans in the near future. (more…)
Just wanted to write a short post about the progress of many of my plants that include zucchini, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, and even my watermelons. I am also going to be discussing my beans that are finally starting to produce as well as eggplants starting to flower.
Today I did happen to pick up another zucchini which makes this the second zucchini to be harvested this year. Other vegetables and fruits will be picked very soon once they begin to mature and ripen. (more…)
I am now getting some more tomatoes that are coming from most of my plants. There are only a couple that don’t have any fruit yet, but they do have flowers which should bring some fruit very soon.
As I can see it looks like I am getting steakhouse tomatoes along with some cherry tomatoes. I am probably getting some Roma tomatoes, but I am not quite certain which ones they are. I would say in about a week I should know if I have any Roma tomatoes growing. (more…)
Today is the day when I start planting all my tomato seeds indoors and placing them under lights. So far I have planted my leafy plants such as lettuce and spinach. I also have planted some of the more important flowers indoors and now it is time for the first fruit of the season.
This is when the season starts to get a little bit busier with many plants growing inside. Once I plant spinach outside I can then grow some more indoors under the lights that were used on my spinach plants. I will probably be planting some more fruits and vegetables under those lights. (more…)
