Show Us Your Harvests!

After we cut off the leaves that were chewed up, we ended up with a very small head of cabbage. Will be enough for the 2 of us for awhile, though.

Here's mine from yesterday... but I forgot the kohlrabi!

My harvests are so sad in comparison, everyone's post makes me excited about the future of my garden!!

Any harvest is worthwhile and something to be proud of!

Any one have tips to keep snow peas and string beans snappy after being harvested. I harvest, I wash and a few hours later they become droopy so I cannot enjoy my fruits of labor. I have tried the fridge, I have tried the counter, nothing seems to work to keep them crisp.

I don't wash mine until right before use. I do, however, put them in a plastic bag and refrigerate them right away. This has worked for me.

Yup - don't wash them. I find a plastic bag or paper bag works best for storage in the fridge. Still, they are best used as soon as possible after harvest;o)

my beans got all soft but I like them soft, I put them in a tofu stir fry yesterday with some zucchini and tofurkey chunks (to symbolize bacon)

Today's pickin' from my rented plot.

-I planted equal number of green, yellow, and purple beans but the yellow ones didn't do as well as the others.
-I'm really loving the ruffled purple basil. They grow so lushly and, unlike my other basils, haven't even hinted at flowering.
-My first bunch of komatsuma. Fast growing, mildly spicy, tasty, and tender. I will definitely keep sowing these.
-And, last but not least, my first San Marzanos. The red part was sweet, the green part was sour. Tasty tomato.

My 1st zucchini :)

Mustard Greens and my Radishes

Here's my harvest:

Tomatoes "Early Girl Hybrid" "Burpee Bunch Hybrid" (4oz cherry) and "Viva Italia Hybrid"
Pole beans: Fortex
Melons: "Athena" "Vedrantais" (Charentais-type)

Quyen - what is komatsuma? I liked the description and want to grow some.

Raeanne418 - I immediately put my green beans in a plastic bag and put them in the fridge. I keep the bag loose so as to keep air in there. They don't get "droopy"

Honeybee: It's a Japanese mustard spinach. I got the seeds from http://evergreenseeds.com/komjapmusspi.html
I also sowed some pak choy but they didn't seem to do as well.

Picked half a dozen cucumbers and a squash yesterday. My son (he's three) picked the tomatoes you see on the right. He insists that we're going to fry them later! :-)

I harvest my green beans & put them in a bowl of water, then place them in the fridge. As long as they are in the water, they stay crisp. I hate soft beans. This works for radish also.

I'm with Prettymess on the canned beans....

Eeeeeeeeewwwwwww - y'all eat mushy green beans?!?! ROTFLOL!!!!!!

If I could draw, I would post a cartoon of myself being pierced through the heart with a mushy bean. LOL.
(To each his/her own.)

LOL - I wish I could draw too cuz I'd love to see that cartoon for real!

Kelly, did you ever get any beans off the ones I sent you and how did you like the taste? Mine didn't do worth a darn this year.

Jim, I got three little beans which I proceeded to eat right there in the garden - lol. They tasted good! I still have seeds and will try again for fall. It got too hot too fast. My bush beans did alright - the pole beans not so much.

Quyen - thanks for the link for Japanese mustard spinach. I've saved it for next year.

Prettymess - We always had a vegetable garden, so I never experienced mushy canned beans. I have tasted canned green beans.

Hmmm.... to quote a famous rabbit (or was he a hare) "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

I think the heat is what hurt mine. We had the hottest and driest May and June we've had in a long time. They are trying to rebloom since the rains have moved in a moderated the heat. Have to wait and see.

No rain was in sight so I pulled all my pole beans:o( The bush beans get a couple more weeks to make up their minds - lol. I can plant again mid-August. I'm ready!

Our drough was finally broken but the rain is playing havoc with the tomatoes and cantalopes. Causing them to split.

I planted some pumpkins where I'd had my potatoes. Now waiting for Aug. to plant lettuce, radishs, carrots and cabbage. I replanted yellow squash about a week ago and they are about six inchs high.

My first harvest of corn. Most were damaged/eaten at the tip. Found a yellow caterpillar/worm.
This is the second time that I've planted corn. Better results this time than last...the ears are more fully developed. Still only 2 ears per plant though.

From rented plot...

My first cocozelle squash and purple bell peppers. The peppers are on the small side.
Japanese cucumber: thin skin, few seeds, sweet. Lots more on the vine.
The beans sure grow fast. So sweet and tender.

Quyen, two ears is what a stalk of corn usually make, one good big ear and then a nubbin or lesser ear. Corn loopers are common in corn that matures corn after the weather gets hot.

Q,
That's some mighty impressive corn you grew. Congratulations!

CORN LOOPERS, now I know thy name! Thanks, Jim41.

Thanks for the encouraging words, Gymgirl. I have another crop of corn that has just started to show tassles. Different variety and planted much closer together (8" vs. 12"). Can't wait to see how they will turn out.

Corn Loopers, cabbage loopers all the same catapillar. Pesky little varmints. You might try sprinkling some baking powder on to the silks when the ears start to form. It will keep them off turnip greens.

More beans, more komatsuma, zuch, and the last of the corn (this batch).

Q,
The komatsuma is the spinach-looking veggie, right? What does it taste like?

I harvested a grip of eggplant last night - lol - but forgot to take a picture. We had Eggplant Parmesan made with homemade tomato sauce - yummy! I brought a bunch of eggplant to work plus the recipe for some co-workers.

A "GRIP" of eggplants. Is that like a "gaggle" of geese?

LOL - yup - it's like a lot of eggplant... I harvested at least 15 total from 4 plants. A grip of eggplant - lol...

I learned something about egg plants and peppers, don't fertilize them. All bush, I mean big, and no fruit.