harvest 2009
2009-Sep-26, Saturday 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI ate lettuce, strawberries, cilantro, and even some spinach already this year.
I collected a LOT of huge sunflower seeds, but then I stored them in the garage instead of in the sun, so they went moldy. I'll save some of them to plant next year, but there are none for me to eat this year. *disappointed sigh*
I mostly ignored the garden during the hottest time of the summer, and it shows. No watering and dry summer definitely made a dent in the harvest. There wasn't much of edible quality except the tomatoes. This first photo shows (left to right) the popcorn, red corn, and golden corn in the first row; round tomatoes and yellow striped roma tomatoes in the next row; purple beans, purple okra, and purple carrot in the the next row; and finally one of the giant sunflower heads.
Today for lunch I boiled one of the smaller red corn and golden corn ears. They were both tasty, but also both rather dry. I'm sure they would have been moister if I had watered the plants and harvested a week or two sooner.
I took the close-up photo on the kitchen counter to illustrate just how huge that carrot is. I only dug one of them up from the ground to eat. The rest of them I want to overwinter and try to get them to bloom and go to seed next year. The taste of that carrot is nice. More importantly, the texture was very soft and tender. Not at all tough and woody like many thin carrots that I get from a grocery store. This variety is definitely a keeper!
And finally a snapshot of some of the flowers by the side of the house. Mostly marigolds. They have been flowering for a long time. Very pretty.
The yellow striped roma tomatoes are just now fruiting heavily. There will be lots of good chili and stew here in the coming weeks. :)
I collected a LOT of huge sunflower seeds, but then I stored them in the garage instead of in the sun, so they went moldy. I'll save some of them to plant next year, but there are none for me to eat this year. *disappointed sigh*
I mostly ignored the garden during the hottest time of the summer, and it shows. No watering and dry summer definitely made a dent in the harvest. There wasn't much of edible quality except the tomatoes. This first photo shows (left to right) the popcorn, red corn, and golden corn in the first row; round tomatoes and yellow striped roma tomatoes in the next row; purple beans, purple okra, and purple carrot in the the next row; and finally one of the giant sunflower heads.
Today for lunch I boiled one of the smaller red corn and golden corn ears. They were both tasty, but also both rather dry. I'm sure they would have been moister if I had watered the plants and harvested a week or two sooner.
I took the close-up photo on the kitchen counter to illustrate just how huge that carrot is. I only dug one of them up from the ground to eat. The rest of them I want to overwinter and try to get them to bloom and go to seed next year. The taste of that carrot is nice. More importantly, the texture was very soft and tender. Not at all tough and woody like many thin carrots that I get from a grocery store. This variety is definitely a keeper!And finally a snapshot of some of the flowers by the side of the house. Mostly marigolds. They have been flowering for a long time. Very pretty.
The yellow striped roma tomatoes are just now fruiting heavily. There will be lots of good chili and stew here in the coming weeks. :)
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