Let the Tomatoes Begin!
Aug. 14th, 2010 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenI managed to get the harvest in ahead of the rain today by about 10 minutes but I lost a couple quarts of fluid doing it - it is hot outside! Below we have the weights and pics of what was hauled in. The majority of the tomatoes were picked today but a few were actually from a couple days ago - they just hadn't been weighed yet, so they were all piled together. Same story on all the potatoes, which I pulled about a week ago and hadn't done anything with since then. The watermelons and other melon types I've given up on weighing although I can say that while they're all good, the Sugar Babies are the preferred variety right now.
Tomatoes: 34 lbs., 9 oz. (15.66 kg) total
·Black Plum - 4 lbs., 1 oz. (1.84 kg)
·Red Calabash - 19 lbs., 6 oz. (8.79 kg)
·Tommy Toe - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
·Black Krim - 5 lbs., 13 oz. (2.64 kg)
·Sweet 100 - 2 lbs., 5 oz. (1.05 kg)
·Unknown - 1 lb., 12 oz. (0.79 kg)
Potatoes: 13 lbs., 4 oz. (6.01 kg) total
·Yukon Gold - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
·Kennebec - 12 lbs. (5.44 kg)
Carrots: 2 lbs. (0.91 kg)
Green Beans: 1 lb., 15 oz. (0.88 kg)
Cucumbers: 6 lbs., 12 oz. (3.06 kg)
The tomatoes will go towards sauce tomorrow (roasted way down in the oven, then canned). I would think of sending some off to the flea market but the forecast is for rain, so that's a no go. Rather than worry about cool storage for relatively few potatoes, I'm going to can them in quart jars. The carrots and green beans are also up for canning. The watermelons and cantaloupe/muskmelons we continue to eat fresh and give away. The cucumbers... more pickles? I don't know yet.
Knearly Yellow Eye bean pods spread out to finish drying in the (somewhat messy) greenhouse. This picture is from a few days ago and the rest are ready to be pulled off the plants now, freeing up space for the other type of dry beans (Ireland Creek Annie) to be brought in.
Nom!
A few of the pumpkins are just starting to change color.
The Green Zebras have some lovely striping but aren't ripe yet.
This little fellow was in the carrots container when I pulled them today. He was kind enough to pose for a few pictures.
Today's harvest/weigh in. From left to right, starting with the back row: Tommy Toe tomatoes in the small black container, Roma tomatoes in the first white bucket, Red Calabash tomatoes in the next two buckets. The black container in front of the Red Calabash holds some mystery tomatoes that were labeled Black Krim when I bought them but they definitely aren't - the pile of tomatoes in the lower right is Black Krim tomatoes and you can see they look quite a bit different! (Some of the Black Krim aren't quite ripe yet, but I wanted to pull them since rain is forecast for today and tomorrow. They can ripen inside instead of cracking on the vine.) Front and center are Black Plum tomatoes. The green beans are Empress and the cucumbers are all Diva.
Here we have Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes on the left, Yukon Gold potatoes in the middle, and Kennebec potatoes on the right. The watermelons are two dark Sugar Babies in the back, a speckled Moon & Stars in the front, an Osh Kirgizia to the front left of that group, and an unknown freebie cultivar to the back right. The melons piled in the egg basket are an assembly of Ambrosia, Charantais, and Ha'ogen. There are at least 21 watermelons still ripening and 30 cantaloupe/muskmelons.
I pulled the carrots from the garden and the container - the ones to the right are from the garden and also younger. Bolero seemed to do the best under the harsher garden conditions.
Tomatoes: 34 lbs., 9 oz. (15.66 kg) total
·Black Plum - 4 lbs., 1 oz. (1.84 kg)
·Red Calabash - 19 lbs., 6 oz. (8.79 kg)
·Tommy Toe - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
·Black Krim - 5 lbs., 13 oz. (2.64 kg)
·Sweet 100 - 2 lbs., 5 oz. (1.05 kg)
·Unknown - 1 lb., 12 oz. (0.79 kg)
Potatoes: 13 lbs., 4 oz. (6.01 kg) total
·Yukon Gold - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
·Kennebec - 12 lbs. (5.44 kg)
Carrots: 2 lbs. (0.91 kg)
Green Beans: 1 lb., 15 oz. (0.88 kg)
Cucumbers: 6 lbs., 12 oz. (3.06 kg)
The tomatoes will go towards sauce tomorrow (roasted way down in the oven, then canned). I would think of sending some off to the flea market but the forecast is for rain, so that's a no go. Rather than worry about cool storage for relatively few potatoes, I'm going to can them in quart jars. The carrots and green beans are also up for canning. The watermelons and cantaloupe/muskmelons we continue to eat fresh and give away. The cucumbers... more pickles? I don't know yet.
Knearly Yellow Eye bean pods spread out to finish drying in the (somewhat messy) greenhouse. This picture is from a few days ago and the rest are ready to be pulled off the plants now, freeing up space for the other type of dry beans (Ireland Creek Annie) to be brought in.
Nom!
A few of the pumpkins are just starting to change color.
The Green Zebras have some lovely striping but aren't ripe yet.
This little fellow was in the carrots container when I pulled them today. He was kind enough to pose for a few pictures.
Today's harvest/weigh in. From left to right, starting with the back row: Tommy Toe tomatoes in the small black container, Roma tomatoes in the first white bucket, Red Calabash tomatoes in the next two buckets. The black container in front of the Red Calabash holds some mystery tomatoes that were labeled Black Krim when I bought them but they definitely aren't - the pile of tomatoes in the lower right is Black Krim tomatoes and you can see they look quite a bit different! (Some of the Black Krim aren't quite ripe yet, but I wanted to pull them since rain is forecast for today and tomorrow. They can ripen inside instead of cracking on the vine.) Front and center are Black Plum tomatoes. The green beans are Empress and the cucumbers are all Diva.
Here we have Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes on the left, Yukon Gold potatoes in the middle, and Kennebec potatoes on the right. The watermelons are two dark Sugar Babies in the back, a speckled Moon & Stars in the front, an Osh Kirgizia to the front left of that group, and an unknown freebie cultivar to the back right. The melons piled in the egg basket are an assembly of Ambrosia, Charantais, and Ha'ogen. There are at least 21 watermelons still ripening and 30 cantaloupe/muskmelons.
I pulled the carrots from the garden and the container - the ones to the right are from the garden and also younger. Bolero seemed to do the best under the harsher garden conditions.
