Happy Monday everyone!
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| Tool Lady taming the jungle. I escaped Homework Land just long enough to snap a couple of pictures 🙂 |
How do you know that your wife loves you? When she chooses to spend the majority of her Saturday cleaning up the garden and bringing in what’s left to harvest while you work on homework for 14 hours straight! True story, and I am immensely grateful!
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| Tool Lady and a very big Sunflower head! |
Aside from a few random tomatoes and our daily eggs, the rest of our harvests this week came in on Saturday during the big clean up Tool Lady did for us. She pretty much pulled everything except for three heirloom tomatoes (2 Orange Flesh Purple Smudge and 1 Barnes Mountain Yellow) we’re hoping will still ripen up a bit, some chard and our potatoes.
While I am sad to see it all torn up (the yard looks incredibly bare in comparison to the jungle it was just a few short weeks ago), I am quite relieved to be given some respite from the daily maintenance of it all. As soon as the potatoes come in we can pretty much call it a year, and a very good year at that!
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| Bunching onions |
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| Happy Yummy Peppers |
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| Bi-Color Cherry Tomatoes – over 23 pounds were pulled in! Crazy! |
In the clean up, many, many tomatoes were brought in, though only some of them are in the tally below. I’ve decided to do what I did last year and record only the viable ones (ripe, or near ripe) this week. As the others ripen up over the next few weeks or if we use them green, I’ll count them towards their respective weekly totals. This way I’m not cheating our numbers by hoping/assuming that they’ll all be edible 😉
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| More Bi-Color Cherry Tomatoes |
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| Tomatillos |
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| Peruvian Purple Peppers They might be small but they are incredibly HOT! |
This weeks totals:
- Apples
- Golden Delicious = 10 oz
- Beets = 1 lb
- Bunching Onions = 14 oz
- Chard = 2 oz
- Cucumbers
- Lemon = 2 lb 13 oz
- Mint = 3 lbs
- Mystery Melon = 2 lb 8 oz
- Peppers
- Happy Hot = 4 oz
- Happy Yummy = 1 lb
- Jalapeno = 1 oz
- Peruvian Purple = 6 oz
- Rhubarb = 1 lb 2 oz
- Tomatillos = 3 lb 2 oz
- Tomatoes = 31 lb 13 oz (23 lb 9 oz of cherry tomatoes alone!)
- Eggs = 32
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Happy harvesting!
Linking up to Harvest Monday @ Daphne’s Dandelions
xoxo
M
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I do like the look of those little purple chillies, and that is a lovely lot of tomatoes.
Wow, what a clean up and a very impressive haul too.
Wow what a lot you harvested! My tomatoes haven’t done enough to worry about; in fact if I don’t see some on the Amish Paste when I look I’m going to rip them out. Have lots of other things to be planting!
That is a lot of cherry tomatoes. Hope you have good luck with them ripening. So far of my 55 pounds of green ones I have only lost 6-8.
Holy cow that’s a big seed head. I pulled in a bunch of greenies as well but made a big batch of “mince meat” pie filling. Using green tomaotoes and apples – which you have a bunch it’s a nice way to put up some summer for later!
Nice Harvest!
Those are some huge sunflower heads. I remember those long days of homework; I am glad that they are behind me.
Ha! yeah, I’ll be glad when they’re behind me, too 🙂
What a cheerful harvest, no critters stealing your sunflower seeds, lucky you.
Lol…no, no critters stealing our seeds this year! We did have someone steal a whole sunflower head a year ago though…just reached over the fence and lopped it off! Silliest thing ever!
What a wonderful harvest you have! Love the tomatoes and peppers but that sunflower is amazing!
It was quite the sunflower! We got some seeds from from a friend several years ago and just keep saving them…they’re not all that big, but the ones that really reach for the sky are quite fantastic!
Oooh, what a fantastic harvest! Congrats to the help, it´s hard when You don´t have the time to do all the stuff Yourself! Everything looks really stunning, but the sunflower heads are tremendous and I´m a bit envious of Your tomatillos, didn´t get one single one this cold and rainy Year. Will try to overwinter for an early harvest next Year! Love the tomatoes and peppers! Peruvian Purple is a really nice variety! Have a nice week! 🙂 Mia
Our tomatillos were out of control this year…the plants were huge and there were so many fruits on them, but we didn’t get the harvest we thought we would comparatively…I think I will start some inside earlier and transplant them out next year to give the fruits more time to mature 🙂
oooh nice peppers. I know what you mean about the empty garden, I feel like I am suppose to be out there doing something but it is all gone.
Right?! But now we get to plan and dream about next years garden 😉
How wonderful to have some help with the fall clean up! I usually have to go it alone and am not so enthusiastic about clean up as I am about planting up. 😉
Nice pickings from the end of season garden. I do the same thing with the green tomatoes – only counting those that go on to ripen up. I will probably be bringing in all the remaining tomatoes next week myself.
Ha! I am always more enthusiastic about putting it in than taking it out! Not sure if it’s the end of the season blues, exhaustion form a long a summer or what, but I always dread getting out there and cleaning it all up!