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What are you harvesting?

mtcrafter
14 years ago

Greetings from Montana

Our first was some Early Goliath tomatoes. Now we are also getting some Fourth of July tomatoes. Oriental egg plant, Purple and green bell peppers, beets and now green beans. We always plant Blue Lake beans that my husband saves seed from each year. This year I got him to plant some Roma II Italian beans. We just had a potful cooked with a piece of picnic ham. Very good.

We usually get enough beets to can some pickled beets but not this year. He said as he was planing them, a bird looking something like a wood pecker was going down the row and picking out the seed and eating them. I thought those kind of birds only ate bugs. Also some had been chomped on like a 1/4 of it taken off, but then it calused over and kept on growing. Weird year for beets.

We are looking forward to more peppers, lots more tomatoes and melons.

Some of the local farmers are beginning to harvest early sweet corn. We should see trailers and pickups full of corn in the parking lots soon.

We used to grow sweet corn but they take a lot of room. And now that we don't have any farm dogs around, the raccoons raid the patch and destroy them.

Have fun picking and eating.

Ann

Comments (19)

  • bcskye
    14 years ago

    I've been getting a lot of Roma II beans and canning them as well as eating them fresh. The Contender bush beans are flowering. Also getting tons on zucchini, cukes and bell peppers with the long red cayenne just starting to produce. Dumped one of my small buckets of Red Pontiac potatoes tonight and cooked some with green beans, onion and smoked sausage for dinner. Just got tomatoes off my four Cherokee Purple plants. The Romas have been ripening, but the older gentleman I share my garden with picks them before they are ripe so I'm not getting any of those.

    I do have a lot of other veggies and at least 5 watermelon going strong. Planted a ton of Copra and Red Zeppelin onions and the stems keep getting thicker and taller. Going to have to take a peek at them soon because curiosity about how big they are is giving me fits. I'm also looking forward to the harvesting of the Kennebec potatoes, the Yukon Gold potatoes and the sweet potatoes which are going crazy. Got some beets in late so don't know how they will be. Like you, will be buying my corn from a local farm.

    Yesterday another neighbor brought me a box of tomatoes off the plants I started from seed and gave to her. She is overwhelmed with tomatoes from those plants. I like that.

    Happy eating and preserving to all!

  • cyrus_gardner
    14 years ago

    Summer Squash, zukes, peas, lettuce, onions, potatoes, garlic have come and gone long time ago.
    My cucumbers have had it too. After some bumper crop of several kinds for two and half months they are just naturally getting old.
    I have several tomato types, big boy, yellow, roma, cherry.. I have been harvesting since the end of June and still going strong.
    I have tones of chilie , some cubanell, gipsy, jalapano;
    Japanes eggplants which I have picked several few days ago and more are growing.
    I have harvested about 10 melons (small Korean), some were eaten by rats!!!
    my yardlong beens are just appearing.
    In the herbs dept. I have 4 different varieties of basils, summer & winter savory, marjoram, greek oregano, chives,thyme, leeks, lemone verbena, lemon balm, lemon grass, shiso.. lots of various gourds, to be left on vine, possibly till frost.
    And not to forget some STEVIA, thats some sweet ending.

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    14 years ago

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    14 years ago

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  • kr222
    14 years ago

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    I'm close to picking my first muskmelon, Minnesota Midget.

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    Here is a link that might be useful: Kim's Garden

  • tn_veggie_gardner
    14 years ago

    Ouch!!! Lol...that's what I was souching for 30 minutes or so after my first Mucho Nacho Jal this year. I swear those things are as hot as, if not hotter than a Hab.

  • kr222
    14 years ago

    I put two in a big bowl of salsa last night. Holy cow. You're not joking. I seeded one of them, but not the other. What was I thinking? Yikes! The hubby loved it. It was bordering on too fiery for me. They sure produce like a dream though.

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  • anney
    14 years ago

    Not harvesting a lot. My tomatoes and melons out in the garden have given up the ghost. I planted some short-season determinate tomatoes in SWCs and am hoping they'll produce something before frost. Started some broccoli at about the same time for a fall harvest and it's poking along, not liking the heat much I suppose. Still waiting for okra pods to finish developing on my six large plants in SWCs.

    But I'm amazed at the production of my Jupiter bell peppers. They're also in SWCs, two plants, and this morning there are 13 peppers on them at various stages of maturity. Here's a blurry picture of the four I picked yesterday.

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    They're enormous, and I attribute that to this fertilizer experiment post made back in the spring, where heavy fertilization of bell peppers was discussed. My past experience with almost no fertilizer resulted in extremely few thin-skinned and small peppers (same Jupiter batch of seeds). So I'm now convinced that double-triple the recommended amount of fertilizer for bell peppers is how to get lots of big ones, having done it for myself!

  • ancfan
    14 years ago

    zucs, yellow crooknecks, armenian cukes, cherry toms, reg toms, hmong cuc, okra and the blackeyed peas are coming in.
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  • spiced_ham
    14 years ago

    Minnesota Midget mellons have been producing for a while now as have cucumbers. I'm just now starting to get the big tomatoes, sweet corn, and the first of the hot peppers. My sorta late planted beets look to be ready too.