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This Week's Harvest

Okiedawn OK Zone 7

15 years ago

With all this lovely hot weather, everything seems to be ripening at once.

This week, in addition to tons of tomatoes, we are harvesting sweet corn, okra, cucumbers, green and yellow beans (Contender, Yellow Wax and Roma), and several types of peppers, including 3 or 4 kinds of Jalapenos, 'Alma' paprika and several colors of bell peppers (green, red, orange, purple, yellow).

The last of the potatoes are ready to dig, and the already harvested onions have cured and are going into the root cellar and freezer.

Our cooler morning and evening temperatures give us a chance to harvest before the heat cranks up too high, and then I can spend the hotter part of the day inside dealing with the mountain of produce.

Oh, and I am harvesting several herbs as well AND catnip for the cats, which I bundle and dry for winter.

I've been so busy with the veggies that I haven't deadheaded flowers lately, and I need to. DH did all the mowing yesterday, but I need to weedeat today.

What is everyone else harvesting?

Dawn

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kirts
15 years ago
I got 5 pints of hot sauce made up yesterday!!

Now I am waiting again on more tomatoes..

other then that, we had a few squashes and cucumbers.

nothing yet to jump for joy
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
Original Author
15 years ago
Hey, we jump for joy over EVERY harvest! : ) With all the critters who want to "share" the harvest, I consider every veggie I carry into the house to be a sign that "we" are winning the produce war.

Getting hot sauce made is an accomplishment. We're going to make some next week on DH's day off--he is the hot sauce expert and he makes it so hot that I can't eat it. I like it really, really mild though.

I'm really hungry for a ripe melon, but they are slow this year, so I'll just have to be patient.

Dawn
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These are a small patty pan squash, so cute, and my very first Sungold F1 tomatoes. I also found four Sungold Select II tomatoes that had colored, so I'll wait for all of them to ripen a little more on the counter before their initial taste-test. There are still Fortex pole beans waiting to be picked today. From one 8-foot double row, I've gotten a gallon of them every other day for a week. There are a few Italian green beans waiting to be picked, too, not as many. My cowpeas and limas haven't blossomed yet, so I guess they'll be along a little later, maybe with the main season tomatoes. There are several cucumber blossoms on the vines climbing up the trellis, so we should get cukes soon, too! Also peppers, which have babies on them now. We've already eaten our strawberry crop, several zucchini squashes, two patty pans, and a lot of lettuce. I'll set out the Emerald okra today, a bit late, but that won't matter with everything else that's coming in.
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You are the second person I have heard of, in the last two days, who says they have a market contract and can only sell what is on their contract. The other person said that only certain people can bring certain things. They have 2 or 3 people who can sell tomatoes, several sell melons and etc. If it were me, I would walk away from a market like that. It is like a monopoly and IMO bad for the consumers. What if the person that sells tomatoes are really bad and don't taste good? What if mine taste much better, the customers never get to try them. What about a crop failure, hailstorm? If you allowed everyone to sell what they want, then the customers will talk and the person with the best stuff will get more business and the poorer tomato person will sell less. Why restrict your customers options? Just wondering. About selling cantaloupes, why not offer them to your CSA customers for additional charge. I know some families who would eat 3 to 5 melons a week, during the season. Jay
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