Getting The First Steakhouse Tomato Harvest

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.

I love using these tomatoes mainly for sandwiches and that is really the only way to use them. I suppose they could be used for salads, but I think that is a waste of their large size.

I also had a small harvest of about 47 cherry tomatoes.

Not only did I pick a large steakhouse tomato and cherry tomatoes, but I had a large straight eight cucumber out in the garden that I have been waiting to pick for quite some time. I had let it sit on the vine to see how large I could get it before picking it. It had stopped growing and that is why I decided on harvesting this cucumber today. This one weighed two and a quarter pounds.

If you like beans then you are going to like my next harvest. I picked 11 pounds of pole beans and they will most likely be used for canning. I will save about a pound in the fridge to use for whatever I need, but I am sure that I will be picking more in the near future.

Unfortunately I have not picked any significant amount of corn yet. I was hoping they would be ready this week. I still think I will pick them by the end of the week and maybe the weekend will be the perfect time to harvest them. I don’t think they need that much more time to ripen. I will have to see and see if they will be ready this weekend.

At the moment my garden is growing pretty good and my melons are still thriving and I think one of them is starting to form the webbing around the fruit which means I should start adding lime in order for the fruit to start building the sugars it needs for sweetness.