Sunday Harvest(s)

I made a trip over to the veggie plot. It is terribly over grown and the only thing surviving are the peppers and tomatoes. Not sure what happened to the vines (zucchini, cucumber) but they are shot. The tomatoes, though over grown, are prolific. Sadly any ripe tomatoes were chewed and/or rotted. I picked almost 7 lbs of green tomatoes! We'll see if they ripen on the shelf.

When I got home it was finally cool enough (83F) to water. While watering I saw plenty to pick. So I did.

Here is today's haul. It's more than 13 lbs of produce. I'm pretty happy with that!

Meatless Monday should be a snap!

Until next time, Keep Digging & Eat Well!

The Gastronomic Gardener
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The Promise of Pickles

Last year I made some pickles. They were the first thing I ever canned, but I had to purchase the cucumbers. This year I am determined to can some of my own growing so I planted three cucumber plants.  Two went into the Square foot beds and one into a Growbox.

The ones in the grow boxes are climbing  nicely up the trellis constructed for this purpose. It is 7' tall, pretty soon , I'll need to start weaving it downwards.

The flowers are pretty to look at.

And the clinging tendrils fascinate me.

From the small ones on the trellis...

...to over on the wooden fence in the Growbox,

to this early one that is chilling in the icebox for The Student's lunch;

it looks like I will have a big harvest. I am not sure I'll have enough ready simultaneously to can, but I hope so.


Until next time, Keep Digging & Eat Well!

The Gastronomic Gardener
Garden blog http://amidwestgarden.blogspot.com/
Cooking blog http://ihopeyouarehungry.blogspot.com/
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2010 Vegetable Garden Recap Video

Here's a little video I put together recapping the 2010 Vegetable Garden. Enjoy!




Until Next Time, Keep Digging & Eat Well!


The Gastronomic Gardener
Garden blog http://amidwestgarden.blogspot.com/
Cooking blog http://ihopeyouarehungry.blogspot.com/
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A Wednesday night harvest

I cut the lawn tonight after a several week hiatus. I'm sure the neighbors were happy. Having a lawn sack of cut grass required a trip to the garden and the compost heap.

The compost pile grows higher, we may have to extend its footprint. Peeked at the garden.

I think we will remove the bush beans and try for another crop - we'll see.  Beets and carrots will be harvested and replanted. The tomatos are just staring to come in.

Did I mention the mosquitos were ferocious? They were chowing down as fast as I could swat at them.

After going over the harvest with the landowner, this is our share.

Clockwise we have : Beets - (I'll be making a beet ginger relish), carrots, tomatos, cherry peppers, japanese eggplant, cucumber - these are delicious white!

This should make for good eating for a few days!

Eat Well!

David P.Offutt

The Gastronomic Gardener

My garden blog  http://amidwestgarden.blogspot.com/
My cooking blog  http://ihopeyouarehungry.blogspot.com/