Very nice! Congrats on the harvest.

I'm wondering why you removed all the skins from the onions? Are you going to use them all today or freeze or can them?

Dawn

We got about 10 pounds of onions from a 3'x5' raised bed. Those are the smaller ones -- my wife chopped them up and stuck them in the freezer. The larger ones are out on the patio curing.

We dug up about 30lbs of potatoes from 16 plants -- eight Red Norland and eight Yukon Gold. Also pictured is New Zealand spinach in the bowl, some escarole, beats and beat greens. Cucumbers and squash are going gangbusters, but we only have a few plants.

We've been eating the tomatoes as they've turned red, but we're at the point now we're going to have to start freezing the extras.

It's been a bountiful year so far. Below is my wife, who supports my addiction to gardening

I just finished curing my onions in the potting shed, and the potatoes are curing in there now. Last year's onion harvest was huge and we froze as many of the extra onions as the extra freezer in the garage would hold. I planted fewer this year because we only wanted enough for fresh eating, and I'm making salsa today so am using up some of them for that.

Your garden looks great and you're lucky to have a spouse who supports your gardening addiction, as am I. He'll help me in any way if I tell him what it is I need, but otherwise he avoids the garden. He does do almost all the mowing and weedeating at this time of year, though I do it in winter when I'm not preoccupied with the veggies and fruit. I used to do more of the mowing, but every year as the garden got bigger, the time I had for mowing got smaller.

With cucumbers and squash, you only need a few plants. I planted too many of both and am annoyed with them for producing more than I can handle. (Clearly it is the fault of the gardener, so I should not be annoyed with the plants.) Usually by now the cucumbers are fighting off cucumber beetles and disease and the squash are fighting off squash bugs and SVBs and their days are numbered. This year I've seen no squash bugs or SVBs and precious few cucumber beetles--not that I am complaining. It is just I expected there would be a certain number of plant deaths, so I planted extra to account for that, and nothing has died. Somewhere, Mother Nature is sitting and reading this and laughing at me, saying "I guess I showed her!".

It is a very bountiful year and I am so glad. Last year was such a rough year and I hardly canned, froze or dehydrated anything at all. I am making up for it this year. I would have planted only half as many plants this year had I known we'd have adequate rainfall and an early last freeze and the plants would produce so well. As it is, I am struggling to maintain any sense of order in the garden while trying to deal with a large harvest and oodles of food preservation. Still, there are worse problems to have and I know that.

Dawn

JD,

It is a beautiful harvest and a beautiful garden. Gardening is a very good addiction to have.

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Larry