Fresh Picked

Here is today's harvest.

Harvest

While summer has come to an end, here are a few things we have harvested from our yard. We have used a lot of the tomatoes for sauce, which we have frozen for winter. Once we harvest all the tomatoes in the hoop houses we will see what we can plant over winter in those areas.

Tomato

this tomato is very pretty inside, it was very delicious, also. We just sprinkled it with sea salt(from Salt Island, BVI) and a little chopped basil. These tomatoes also made a wonderful BLT.

spider webs

The spiders were busy overnight, they decorated our little pine tree.

Broccoli

broccoli is almost ready for harvest!

Having fun with all the variety of product we have grown this year!

More potatoes please Sir!!!

Havested some more potatoes. These varieties are for baking and mashed.

Torpedo Onions

Harvested all of the torpedo onions. Letting them dry for a day or two.

Did you say Cheddar!

Cheddar Cauliflower! We are going to have this for dinner tonight!

Sliced Purple haze Carrots

They were very nice with are salad!

Summer harvest

Some more purple haze carrots!

This is our first meal where everything on the plate was from our garden. We harvested everything today except for the beets (see golden beets below), they were picked a few weeks ago and pickled. The menu consisted of potatoes baked on the grill, purple haze carrots, curried yellow squash, salad with sungold tomatoes and nastursium, raw broccoli, kolrahbi and freshly made applesauce. Nothing better than fresh picked vegetables!

Broccoli

Actually, this is a very small bud. I put the camera on Micro and moved it close. We should have a good head of broccoli in a couple days.

Green tomatoes

Since we have put up the hoop houses the tomatoes are growing at a faster rate. We pull the sides up during the day to get more heat in and at night lower the sides to keep the heat in. I will start to put lighted candles in the hoop house soon to give a little more heat at night. I will just put the candles in a water bath, so I feel safe during the night.

Red Onions

This is the first year I have been successful at growing onions. We have shared some with neighbors, pickled julienne cut onions and a few made it on a pulled pork sandwich. The rest are hanging in a basket in the kitchen waiting for further instructions. I need to make a cold cellar.

Golden beets

Just harvested these golden beets. We cleaned them up and put them in water and simmered them until they were cooked all the way through. We pickled them for later eatings.

Helping Summer along!

We put these two hoop houses over the tomatoes because we have not had a consistent summer of temperatures for tomatoes. Last two days in the low 70's during the day, 50's at night. I guess that is why most commercial growers here do Green houses, hot house etc.

Pumpkin Flower

Good night pumpkin!

Pumpkin Flower

Good morning pumpkin

Onion harvest

Pulled up Red onions and a variety called torpedo red onions. Roasted with for dinner. When I pull the next onions I need to let them dry out for a day or two.

First Potatoes

It just amazes me how putting one potato in the ground can yield 8 lbs. or more of product. This is the first plant variety that I pulled up today. They are purple potatoes. We roasted them on the BBQ just in olive oil, salt and pepper. Yummmmmm!