Getting Ready for Some More Peppers and Cucumbers

I have been picking mostly cherry tomatoes this entire week since most of them are at the stage of ripening. They usually come rather quickly and are the first tomatoes to be picked and continued to be harvested throughout the season. Today I picked the first steakhouse tomato along with a couple of cucumbers and some broccoli.

The two pepper plants that were transplanted into the garden a couple of months ago have been doing well and were producing many flowers over the past month. There was a pepper growing on one of them that I was planning on picking this week. It was a good size and this was just one of the hopefully many that I get from both plants.

The second harvest of cucumbers was upon me this afternoon. I actually picked a couple of them that were probably done earlier in the week. A little overripe is not that big of a problem and they will mostly taste just like a perfectly ripe cucumber. I like to get them as big as they can grow and then finally pick them off the vine.

I was going through my tomato plants seeing if there were any other tomatoes besides my cherry tomatoes that were ripe for harvesting. I happen to catch a steakhouse tomato that was just about ready for picking. I could have left it on the plant for another day, but it was close enough to ripe. If I wanted a little bit more red I can just place it in a windowsill for a day or two.

The last of the corn was picked this week and that is it for corn harvesting. I actually got much more corn this season from my stalks than any other season. Most of the stalks had at least two ears and some actually had three growing. Ambrosia was definitely a good variety of corn and I will have to keep that in mind when choosing corn for next year.

Here is what I got from my corn stalks with the second harvest of the season.