Show Us Your Harvests!

Mine wouldn't start growing so I gave them a shot of ammonia nitrate. They started and haven't quit, just won't bear. I've got 3 jalepeno, 2 bell peppers, and one eggplant.

Never to old to learn.

Got 2 big cukes and a cocozelle. This is my first time growing Armenian cucumbers. They are pretty easy to grow. The fruits are definitely different. Very light in color, thin-skinned, soft seeds, and mild taste. No trace of bitterness. And they sure get long! The longest one in picture is about 23 inches.

More beans, and Selena stealing the picture

On top of the 10,000 cherry tomatoes we've harvested, I had this yesterday. Talk about YUMMY!!

Stef: That cantaloupe is fantastic. I hope mine turn out to look like that. I have 3 growing so far. And a lot of baby ones that rot & fall off the vine.

That one was a bit on the green side, but was ripe enough for the ants, so we clipped it and ate it. It was sooooo good! We've got about 6 or 8 more out in the garden yet to ripen. This is a Honey Rock (AKA Sugar Rock) cantaloupe. It actually tasted better at room temperature than after it had been in the fridge. (Didn't stop me from eating it cold, though!)

AWESOME, Steph! Great job! Can you grow more from those seeds?

I'll probably have babies in the compost pile.

Quyen - I only grow Armenians now. I have such poor luck with timing regular cukes to set fruit before our heat hits. I love the taste of them! I pick them at about 12" long. They can get up to 36" long and will grow straight if trellised. Mine are still producing in Phoenix in the middle of July!

Nice melon Stephie!

locakelly: I just can't imagine growing tender vegetables in your climate. Since I don't have a watering system rigged up for my community garden plots I have to water them every other day if the weather is hot. This is my first year with a real "on the ground" garden. I've always had to do containers in years past. It is amazing how much faster and stronger the plants grow when they have enough room to spread their roots!

stephtx: it's my first time growing cantaloupe and I now have a baby one about the size of a billiard ball. It is sooo cute. Never knew that baby 'loupes are fuzzy.

BTW, how can I tell when a watermelon is ready?

Wow, all your harvests look great. Accidently deleted a couple while transfering from camera to computer. One was of my tiny cantaloupes. They were ripe and all, but just a tad larger than tennis balls, LOL. Crenshaw was smallish. Lots of tomatoes this year, but not all plants produce large volumes. Will need to start making something with them as I can't keep up eating them as fruit. Seems like freezing or canning defeats the 'fresh' concept. Have a bunch of watermelons coming up, anxious to hear the answer to Quyen's question. Had one okra and it appears I can cut some eggplant. Cukes have given up and Zukes won't. Green/purple beans never made it. Had some Scarlet Emperor and Purple Trifunto (?) pole beans that climbed like crazy and flowered, then kept dying below the flowers. No beans. Maybe the bush beans will do something.

Wow, there are some great harvests on this thread.

Here are some jalapenos I harvested this evening. I chopped them up and tossed them in a pot of pinto beans along with some store-bought garlic. I loved the fact that I utilized fresh-from-the-garden peppers...it's a great feeling, huh?

Finally got a picture of what I harvest this last week, except for given away/eaten tomatoes and zukes. I am AMAZED. Still more on the vine. Last year I had 12 TOTAL tomatoes no bigger than golf balls (beefsteaks no less!) in containers. This year straw bales and diligence.

And here is one of the 2 bags of apples my neighbor brought over.

What are you going to do with all the tomatoes? belle

Munch, munch, munch. Neighbor sharing. Salsa? Bruschetta? Sandwiches, salads, tomato pie and tart and eat them like apples (or grapes for the little ones. Hate to freeze them, think they would loose some flavor and would probably need to be used for cooking.

Quiltygirl,
Here's an EXCELLENT recipe for roasted tomatoes sauce. People were roasting all their excess 'maters into some wonderful sauce for the winter. Once you make the "base" you can customize the sauce to a number of different applications: tacos, spaghetti, basil, etc.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/984/

Thanks, that looks very yummy and will be tried for sure. I love roasted veggies.

I see a BLT in your future! Nice harvest!

OMG, forgot about that, need to add bacon to shopping list. Have been having just plain tomato sandwiches.

So glad I could help increase your cholesterol! :)

This has been a fun year. I got my first fruits off a fruit tree in our little backyard orchard. Four little bitty plums grew well enough to eat on our Santa Rosa tree. They were fantastic.

I also got some raspberries and blackberries in early summer. We even had a couple grapes on our year and a half old grape vine. The grape is growing like mad and I have to keep pruning it back to keep it from taking over.

I've also gotten basil and New Mexico peppers from the container section of my garden. The peppers are remarkably small, all of two inches typically, instead of the six inch peppers we are used to buying. Only the cherry tomatoes really have produced yet too.

Catterpilers got the rest of the herbs and most of the tomatoes. Darn things. I caught as many as I could spot and tossed them in the compost heap where a squash is going nuts because I haven't turned it often enough.

Linda, thank your so much for the link to that Roasted Tomatoe sauce recipe. I about doubled it, and since I need to pick nearly the same large load today, I see myself making it again. I have not pureed it. I could have eaten it just with a spoon directly from the oven. Apparently I am the only one who wants to eat it. 16 yo DD thought it "stank" while it cooked. Imagine!! With all that garlic and onions is smelled like heaven. Also added last of some celery I had, wonder about that zucchinI?

I've seen that recipe before and thought it looked amazing. I wanted to try it myself but my tomato crop was a bust this year. Glad you got to enjoy it, quiltygirl.

telosphilos - I understand about being excited over getting just a few fruits/veggies from a plant. I planted 2 dwarf citrus almost 4 years ago and all they have done is sometimes look dead enough to yank out. I did not do that and they came back this year and are actually growing. One is even hosting a vounteer tomato plant. I have ONE pmagranate on my little tree, but I only just bought it last summer and it has only been in the dirt since March. No blackberries on new plants and one got whacked as a weed from a guy who was 'helping' us. I had 7 various pepper plants and they mostly look anemic, but did manage to harvest a 1/2 doz sweets and maybe 10-12 New Mexico and Anchos. From 4 melon plants, 3 undersized melons - might get some watermelons ripen from 2 plants. I planted 3 zucchinis from a 4 pak and the turned into 6 plants, fortunately not producing as many as they could have, but more than I need none the less.

Tomatoes are doing great, here is a photo of yesterday's harvest, biggest one yet. Made another batch of the Roasted Tomatoes and filled the turkey roaster this time with tomatoes from previous harvest and put in 3 large bulbs of garlic. Yum. Think I will put it through the blender this time and freeze it.

cucumbers!! this is from last week, I already got 3 more! They grow so fast!

roma tomatoes!

Here's part 1 of yesterday's harvest. Cukes (Marketmore, White Wonder, and Lemon) and jalapenos.

Clemson Sweet Watermelons!

Ya'll are doing fantastic! Congratulations!

(And, thanks to whoever started this thread -- wonderful idea!)

Nice harvests peeps!

I'm in Maine at my Mom & Dad's - we had fresh from the garden corn and yellow beans last night with our steak - mmm mmm good! I forgot to take a picture though - lol...

Enjoy the cooler clim Kelly.

Kelly that sounds wonderful, can imagine the wonderful tastes of those beans and corn. Ditto what Jim41 said too.

Can you bring some 43 degree air back in a cooler? How about using some hot ice just 2 B safe?

We have been blessed with cooler days (mid 80's) than normal 99 and las 2 nights were 54-56! Whoo Hoo! Since we sleep with windows open, I considered putting the comforter back on with the sheet and light weight 'summer' blanket. Back to hot and not iced coffee in AM and actually wore a robe! I should not complain about even our 'hot' nights as that would be 70 degrees, then with windows open we need ceiling fan. My family in Dallas/Plano never open their windows and some don't even have screens - always a controlled temperature. No thank you.

Hey guys, I'm in line for a new lima bean seed. A friend is going to pass some down the chain to me. A guy brought the seed back from Germany when WW II was over. It is a runner and the beans are white with a black eye. Makes very little foliage and a lot of beans. I'm going to give them a try next year.

I'll see what I can do about bringing some cool weather west!!

Wish I liked limas Jim - sounds like an oldie but goodie!

I didn't intend to plant any more running limas after this years farce, but I will try these just to see what they do.