Garden Produce Picked Today

**Durgan** · 08-03-2011, 05:22 PM

3 August 2011 Produce Picked 3 August 2011 Produce Picked.

It is a dull, humid day with a bit of sporadic rain. Beans, cucumbers, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, strawberries, and beets were picked and given to my neighbor. The issue with any garden is the quantity of produce that is mature on any given day. It is a good idea to decide beforehand on what to do with it, eat fresh or preserve for off season use.

**vigilant20** · 08-03-2011, 07:23 PM

OH wow, that's a good haul!

**frugalfranny** · 08-13-2011, 02:10 PM

Wow..........good haul.

I am just NOW starting to HAVE to go out and see what is ripe............been a really slow horrid year..........tons of
rain and no real "serious" heat.

**Contrary Housewife** · 08-14-2011, 10:41 AM

Really slow going here, too. Too much heat and no serious rain. I picked our first three tomatoes today. The Grapette tomatoes, usually my weakest producer are the ones that survived the blistering drought last month. The rest have either not set fruit yet (!!!) or dropped all their fruit.

Peppers are doing ok. The heat has kept the fruit small, but there's enough of it.

However, our root crops seem to be doing very well. Dug up a 5 gallon bucket of red potatoes the other night. The sweet potatoes just love the heat and have doubled in size this summer, I am expecting a bumper crop. Carrots seem to have done well, we have a special variety that does well in our clay soil. And the asparagus seems to like the heat, as it has put up a bunch of new stalks.

**Imarachne** · 08-14-2011, 11:08 AM

We have one tomato plant that is producing massive quantities but because of the drought, they are harder than usual and not very juicy.

**Peaches** · 08-14-2011, 12:14 PM

This morning we picked French beans, kohlrabi, eggplants, zucchini (I have tons of these and I'm beginning to despair. Don't tell me to make bread - my family hates it), onions, scallions, peppers, cucumbers, turnips, lettuce and four varieties of tomatoes. We also had four eggs, but we have eleven chickens, so seven of them have some 'splainin to do!

**Durgan** · 08-14-2011, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Peaches

This morning we picked French beans, kohlrabi, eggplants, zucchini (I have tons of these and I'm beginning to despair. Don't tell me to make bread - my family hates it), onions, scallions, peppers, cucumbers, turnips, lettuce and four varieties of tomatoes. We also had four eggs, but we have eleven chickens, so seven of them have some 'splainin to do!

Come on get the camera out.

**Peaches** · 08-14-2011, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by Durgan

Come on get the camera out.

I hope this works - I've never done it before!

**Peaches** · 08-14-2011, 01:11 PM

Oops, forgot about the raspberries!

**Durgan** · 08-14-2011, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Peaches

I hope this works - I've never done it before!

Quite impressive. Congratulations.

**frugalfoster** · 08-14-2011, 08:01 PM

I picked 3 gallons of blueberries today... it's about the only thing I can grow...LOL

**Contrary Housewife** · 08-14-2011, 08:36 PM

zucchini = pickles

**Peaches** · 08-15-2011, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Contrary Housewife

zucchini = pickles

I don't have a pressure canner, so I worry about preserving some foods.

**Durgan** · 08-15-2011, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Peaches

I don't have a pressure canner, so I worry about preserving some foods.

A presto relatively low priced.

**NicJean** · 08-15-2011, 06:36 AM

I water bath my zucchini pickles - not pressure can.
How about a (zucchini) chocolate cake? Roasted with other veggies on the grill. Sliced and dehydrated ( I use the pilot light in my oven to do this, or in the car when the sun's out).