Large Harvest of Pole Beans, Tomatoes, and Peppers

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.

I first want to talk about my pole beans since this is the title of the blog post.  I gathered many beans that I needed three containers in order to place them all into.  Before I was half done on one row of them I had filled up one of the containers that I use for harvesting my vegetables.

When this happened I knew that I was probably going to need a couple more in order to fit the rest into two more containers.  Since they are very long I can’t cram them into one container because I like to leave some room for them.  I will definitely have to get a bigger harvest container in case this ever happens again.  Take a look at home many pole beans I gathered today.

Here is another view of them.

They ended up weighing in at 12 and a half pounds of beans and there were approximately about 340 of them!  This is the largest harvest of beans that I have collected in one day.  With just two twenty foot rows of pole beans you can get quite a large harvest.  I will have to make certain that I keep on doing this each year.  It seems to work for the most part.

After picking all the beans in the morning I saw that many tomatoes were ready to be harvested and they were as red as they were going to get.  Now that I am getting Roma tomatoes it will be soon time to start making sauce with them.  That is the main reason that I plant this specific type of tomato.

They are meatier than other tomatoes and these were a Burpee exclusive that I decided on trying this season.  Supposedly they can grow up to two pounds and they have no seeds which can make for a real thick tomato sauce.

The four of them weighed about two and a half pounds which is not bad.  They don’t each weigh two pounds, but they definitely are much bigger than your average Roma tomato.  I will make sure that they don’t go to waste.

I also picked another steakhouse tomato along with plenty of cherry tomatoes.  I will probably be picking the cherry ones everyday for quite a while.  I have another steakhouse that is about ready to ripen, but instead I just picked one for today.

Here are two and a half pounds of cherry tomatoes.

A new vegetable that was harvested today were peppers.  I know I picked a pepper early in the season, but today I was able to collect three good sized peppers.

They only weighed a half a pound in total, but peppers usually don’t weigh that much anyway.  They are hollow vegetables that are very sweet if you grow them correctly.  That is why they are called sweet bell peppers.

Now today I checked the corn again and they are just not quite ready.  It promise it will be real soon when they begin to ripen.  I am definitely being careful that I don’t leave them on the stalk too long because they will get hard and tough to eat.  I am making sure that I check them on a daily basis at this point because at any moment I will begin harvesting them.