Harvested The Two Largest Eggplants in My Entire Life

I have been continuously been picking tomatoes throughout the summer and have finally been getting Romas pretty much at the same time. Beefsteak tomatoes have been quite large along with my cherries and Romas. I had so many Romas last week that I decided it was time to make some tomato sauce for Winter storage. I collected over 20 pounds of Roma tomatoes which is plenty for a large batch of tomato sauce. I made 15 quarts of sauce that I will save for the winter which will make delicious and excellent meals.

Corn is done for the season and when the corn is finished I like to cut down all the stocks and burn them once they are dry enough to do so. The leaves I remove and place them into onion totes which will allow them to decompose over the winter so the soil can be replenished with some nutrients. Another way to use the corn leaves is to place them into a compost pile. Either way works, but I have been using them to replenish the onion totes and that seems to work quite well.

I also am starting to get some zucchinis and so far I have only picked two, but this is quite well because I planted the seeds real late and I wasn’t expecting to get any. Now I have two zucchinis harvested and I am hoping to possibly get a couple more this season, but I am not holding my breath with this because I was lucky enough to get any at all. Some of the plants are producing fruit, but I am not sure if they will get pollinated in time before cooler weather arrives.

Now let’s talk about the two largest eggplants that I have ever picked in my life. I saw them growing on the plant and I knew that they were quite large and almost the size of a bowling ball, but obviously not as heavy as they are quite hollow and light. I ended up actually picking three large eggplants during this week’s harvest. These are definitely large enough to make a couple of eggplant parmesans and maybe some eggplant pizzas which is something I look forward to during the summer along with many other meals with my home grown vegetables.

I am still waiting for potatoes to be ready for digging, but the plants are still green and flourishing. Although most of my Yukon potatoes are pretty much done the others are still green and growing quite well. I like to start digging them when the plants start turning yellow or brown. The soil around them is starting to crack which means that potatoes are starting to push through. I will have to keep the potatoes covered with soil otherwise sunlight will make them inedible which would have been a waste of time growing and caring for them.