Largest Tomato and Corn Harvest of 2015

The climax of the season is coming to a head and with the large harvests of corn and tomatoes I think that the season is starting to come to a close.  There is always a busy part of the season where I collect the most vegetables and fruit.  It looks like the past two weeks are the max I will get from my garden.

This not only includes corn and tomatoes which I collected this week, but with all the melons I picked around the same time, cucumbers, zucchini, and the pumpkins which I will be harvesting very soon.

Most of my cherry tomatoes are done and with only a couple of plants left they seem to be not producing anymore.  This is why I say the summer season is coming to a close.  I still have plenty of harvests to come, but as far as getting the most in one harvest that part is done.

Right now I have been picking one pepper at a time and I know in the near future I probably will be picking multiple peppers in one day once I reach the climax of my pepper season.  This goes for my fall crop as well once they begin producing fruit.

At the moment my Roma tomatoes have reached their maximum potential for the season.  I will be picking more, but it won’t be as large as what I did today.  I collected 50 pounds of Romas which is the most I think I have ever picked of these tomatoes.  You know that this means more sauce for Winter storage.

I filled five bowls with large Roma tomatoes this morning.

They may not look like good tomatoes, but they are only going to be used for sauce which it doesn’t matter how they look.  As long as they are big and meaty.

You can see that I filled quite a few bowls this morning when I picked all my Roma tomatoes that were ripe or at least real close to ripe.  I also got a couple of large ones that were close to being two pounds each.

These are just a couple of large ones that I picked this morning.  I wish all my tomatoes were this big.

Corn was picked this week as well and it was definitely the largest one of this season.  Corn is one of those vegetables that are only good having straight on the cob instead of eating from a can.  It is possible to can the corn as long as you remove the kernels from the ear, but instead I decided on freezing a few to see how that would work.

I also cooked some first and placed them in the refrigerator and when I feel like having corn on the cob I can just heat one up and enjoy it.  It is one of the luxuries of having a summer.

38 ears of corn were picked this week.

I can say that I have plenty of corn to eat for the next couple of weeks at the most.  I still have some in the garden that were not quite ready, but I am sure that they will be ready this weekend at the latest.  I will pick them tomorrow and then I can probably take the stalks out of the ground once they are done producing.

I also got three zucchinis, two peppers, and two cucumbers today as well.