August 30, 2010: Harvest Monday

Daphne's Dandelions is the host for Harvest Monday, where everyone can share links to their harvest for the week. Please visit her blog and leave a link, so we can enjoy your harvest photos!

The week of August 23-August 29

36 oz. bush beans
46 oz. pole beans
16 oz. beets
28 oz. carrots
84 oz. cucumbers
9 oz. lettuce
70 oz. sweet peppers
54 oz. butternut
6 oz. yellow crookneck squash
52 oz. zucchini
24 oz. strawberries
968 oz. tomatoes

Total for week: 1393 ounces = 87 pounds
Total ytd: 603 pounds

Cooler days and chilly nights are slowing down the tomato production, not to mention that I've ripped out a few more plants this week.  The sweet peppers are huge, but slow turning color.  I probably have three or four that are turning red or yellow now.  My second planting of pole beans is beginning to bear, but certainly not in the amounts the Fortex have given me.  Fortex continues to be the largest provider of green beans for freezer and table, but I think I'll stop picking them now so they can produce seeds for me to plant next year.

I've been narrowing down my tomato choices for the 2011 garden, determined not to grow so many next year.  The three that are definitely on my grow list so far, are Suduth's Strain Brandywine (thank you, Dan), Amish Paste (thank you, Kelly) and Eva Purple Ball (thank you, DaBeardedOne).  I have seeds from these three fermenting in small cups on my windowsill.  Those will be my three indeterminates.  My determinate is yet to be chosen, but I may go back to growing Celebrity, which has been my tomato of choice in past years.