Monday, May 21, 2012

Harvest Monday for May 21st, 2012.


We have a harvest for today's post! Although it is small, it is a harvest nonetheless and we're grateful for it.



Our tomatoberry plant has provided two pretty little tomatoes weighing a total of 3/4 of an ounce. More are on the way for next week.






Our Swiss chard is still producing some leaves from plants that aren't going to seed. I picked 12 ounces of it for this week's harvest.

For those folks that have been following my attempt to overwinter giant marconi pepper plants, the trial is over. The plants weren't doing anything even though the roots and interior of the stalks of the ones I inspected earlier in the year were a healthy green. I pulled another test plant this week, and it came out without any effort. The roots had rotted. So I'm tilling up the soil there and planting a fresh batch of marconi pepper plants in their place.

That concludes the harvest report for this week. I would like to share with you that I am very happy with the number and size of green tomatoes coming along, as well as the green bean and lima bean blossoms all over the vines! I hope everyone is having great progress with their crops this year!

Be sure to visit DaphnesDandelions for more exciting gardening experiences in a northern growing zone.

Have a great vegetable gardening day!
Veggie PAK

12 comments:

  1. Well those tomatoes are a start. I used to always look forward to those first tomatoes.

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    1. The first of many I hope! If we could WISH them ripe, we'd be all set!

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  2. your little tomatoes look great and so does your chard. I'm planting more and more chard, partly to have some extra greens to feed the chickens but also because it is such a heavy dependable producer.

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    1. Thanks! You're right in that Swiss chard is a heavy dependable producer. I'm going to be planting fresh plants in between the ruby red seed producers in a few days. I'm going to remove the old plants that haven't gone to seed.

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  3. Congrats on those two little tomatoes! Lucky you!

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  4. I have a couple of small little tomatoes about ready to be picked too. They may be small but I am definitely happy to have them. You chard looks great too.

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    1. The little tomatoes will have to hold us over until the big ones get ripe! I too, am happy to have them!

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  5. The first tomatoes of the season are always the best! Enjoy!

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    1. They were great! To go with lunch, I made my wife a small salad of cucumbers, vidalia onion, and the two tomatoes. I almost ate it myself!

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  6. The first tomatoes of the season always taste great and I'm sure you will be enjoying plenty more soon.

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    1. The vines are filling with more tomatoes every day! With 50 plants of regular tomatoes, I'll be very busy canning when they do begin to come in.

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