We are thankful for our harvests that are increasing each week. This week was particularly good and we are quite happy with it.
Here is our first Roma tomato for this year. It weighed in at 3 1/2 ounces. We have 27 Roma plants so hopefully I will be busy canning various sauces.
This was our first picking of snap beans for this week. They weighed in at 2 3/4 pounds.
This was our second picking this week, just five days later. These weighed 3 1/4 pounds, for a total weight of 6 pounds of snap beans this week alone!
Our raspberries are coming in great! I picked these on Thursday and they weighed 6 ounces.
I picked these on Saturday and they weighed 2 1/2 ounces.
I picked these on Sunday and they weighed 1 3/4 ounces.
So the total harvest of raspberries for this week is 10 1/4 ounces. Fortunately, one time when I went out I caught two robins making off with raspberries from the canes. Now I'll have to cover them with netting somehow.
We got two sweet banana peppers that weighed 2 1/4 ounces.
Here is the prize for the week... one 9 ounce Park's Whopper tomato!
I canned 8 pints of Dilly Beans using the recipe from the Ball Blue Book. I like the zip that the Cayenne pepper puts in them!
And last but not least...
These aren't veggies, but I wanted to share how many blooms that are on our Chuck Hayes Gardenia bush out front. The scent is heavenly when you're downwind from it.
Be sure to visit DaphnesDandelions for more wonderful garden information and pictures of delicious meals.
Thanks to everyone for visiting, and I hope you all are having great luck with your gardens! If you don't have one, why not start one today? You can even do it in containers if you don't have the yard space!
Have a great vegetable gardening day!
Veggie PAK
Looks like things are slowly picking up. That is a beautiful gardenia.
ReplyDeleteYes, everything is finally making good progress!
DeleteThanks! It smells SO good!
YUMM! Those beans, tomatoes and raspberries look very good!
ReplyDeleteThey are ALL delicious! I looked in the Ball Blue Book and saw a recipe for canning mango-raspberry jam. I have to try that one!
DeleteAs usual that is a lot of beans. My beans are just starting to run. I have to go out and convince them to grow up the strings.
ReplyDeleteThanks! You get such great harvests of dried beans each year! I always look forward to seeing what you get each harvest. While the beans look so pretty in the jars, they look even better on the plate!
DeleteGood harvest of green beans this week. I use that same dilly bean recipe and really like it too.
ReplyDeleteThe raspberries are particularly nice looking but that ripe whopper tomato is a stand out. Cannot wait for tomato season to truly get underway here.
The Ball Blue Book is a great source of tried and true recipes!
DeleteOh! That tomato was SO good! I can hardly wait to pick some more.
What a great harvest week; love those raspberries! That I think might be my favorite fruit and gardenias are one of my fav flowers; just can't grow them here!
ReplyDeleteThanks! My grandmother had a raspberry patch that seemed as big as a car when I was little. We were always eating as many as we could! My goal (other than lots of raspberries!) is to provide the opportunity for that same kind of memory for my grandkids.
DeleteWe have a gardenia in the back yard that I can't get to grow over a foot tall! I just don't understand it.
Lucky you, tomatoes already. We have a few weeks before ours will blush.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the gardenias. We have a few we inherited. Every year I plan to rip them out. Then they bloom for few weeks and perfume my entire downstairs (they are planted near windows). This is enough to convince me to spare their lives for another year.
It is nice having those tomatoes!
DeleteYou are really fortunate that yours are near windows so you can smell them in the house. My next door neighbor told me yesterday that they can smell our gardenias through THEIR whole house! Boy, did I plant that in the wrong place!
Those green beans and raspberry look just amazing! What a great harvest you've had.
ReplyDeleteThanks! We have been blessed with several nice harvests.
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