Following Onions Comes Eggplant and Broccoli Harvesting

It is now prime harvesting time with onions picked out of the totes and now broccoli, eggplants, more tomatoes, and beans are ready. At this moment I probably have picked every vegetable from the garden except for pumpkins which I picked much later and melons that will also come later in the season. I also started picking the second row of corn which is a all white type of corn. They looked very weird, but were actually quite delicious and didn’t taste that much different from any other corn I have grown.

My onions were picked a couple of weeks ago even though I like to pick them in the summer around the month of July. I would say due to the rain we have received this season that they continued to grow through July and partly into August. Once they fall over they are ready to be pulled out of the ground. Since they hadn’t fell in July I left them in the ground to continue growing.

I had a pretty good harvest of onions this year compared to last year for obvious reasons. The red onions that I grew were actually much larger this season and I am very pleased with how all my onions came out. This amount of onions should last throughout the year and maybe past the new year.

Eggplants have been growing on my plants for about the past month, but I have only picked one as of now. Most of them on the plants are a decent size, but nothing large enough that I have picked for the first this year. This one has already been used and it was definitely delicious as much as eggplant can be.

I have been waiting for my silver queen corn to finally mature in order to start harvesting them. I have never grown silver queen corn and I was a little hesitant in picking them too early. Just like any other corn they ripen once the kernels release a white substance when you puncture them. I only did one harvest so far and I have a few more in the garden to pick which will happen this week.

This month I have been picking many heads of broccoli even though they were supposed to be ready much earlier in the season. I guess I should have planted them a little bit earlier in order to pick them sooner. The good news about this broccoli is that are made to grow in warm and cool weather making them the perfect addition to the garden.