2012 Spring HARVEST pictures

Yum!
Hey, your Tumbles kitty looks just like my Olive kitty!

wow that's a huge garlic !!
Mine was not very large this year.... I have used another bed ...

They look a decent size to me, Drthor. The necks look small, though. Are they hard neck garlics?

They are soft neck garlic. I don't have much experience on growing garlic, but those bulbs are much smaller than the previous years.
Today I have harvested some more cucumbers, onions and tomatoes.
The larger tomatoes are turning color: Cherokee Purple, Momotaro and Jubilee Golden

Lynea, don't forget that elephant garlic is not a true garlic.

Garlic anyone??

Those are really nice garlic cloves stephanietx WOW
mine this year are not so big. I have tried to use a different spot for the garlic ... I guess I need to go back on planting them in my veggie patch.

Today I have harvested Swiss Chard.
It keeps growing on the border of my flower beds ... so yummy !

Blackberries and strawberries never make it to the kitchen for picture ... I eat them right on the spot !

My harvest today. Lots of tomatoes and some cukes.
My first EGGPLANT !
The flowers are for my DH pets

Today I harvested lots of cukes and tomatoes. My first zucchini ... weee
Eggplants and peppers too

Looks like we'll be having some green beans and peas for dinner tonight!

Drthor, your tomatoes are beautiful.
Stephanie, I gave up on the beans and peas here, it was either too cold or too hot, never just right for them. Your crop is nice.

stephanietx you are the "PEA QUEEN" of DFW !!
Please let me know next year your planting time ok?

I'll try to remember! LOL

It's elephant garlic, which is really in the leek family.

Harvest today: tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, onions, blackberries, peppers and eggplants

Wow! Those are beautiful.

Thanks ... and it is just a little home veggie garden ...
I am so proud!

drthor

Those pictures look suspiciously like your pictures from last year. Maybe you should try a different staging area so that we "black helicopter", "conspiracy theory" types can be certain that you're not recycling old pictures.

That's just my way of saying "way to go" and I'm envious of your harvest. Have you ever made tomato sauce totally out of Gold Nugget or any other yellow tomato? Does it retain the color of the tomato? I have such an abundance of Gold Nuggets this year that I was thinking of trying it and serving it at a small dinner party over a colored pasta.

huummm ... I smell envy ... giggle
I have used Gold Nudget in pasta sauce all the time, but mixed with the red ones ...
I think they will stay the same color ... I dunno

Have you tried to roast them?
Yummy !!

I prepare a bowl with Olive Oil, Balsamic Vinegar, Salt and Pepper.
Cut the tomatoes in half and also some onions.
Mix everything together. Let marinate for 10-15 minutes.
Put all the mix on a baking tray and roast for 10 minutes (turn) and 5 more minutes.
Add some chopped basil at the end.
Yummy !!

hrp50,
by the way: I didn't grow onions last year ... so it will be a hint about the pictures

drthor

You are correct and I apologize for questioning your integrity. However, what if you photo-shopped this year’s picture of onions into your picture from last year, then it could fool some people? You were gone for a long time, maybe you were off immersing yourself in an advanced Photoshop class somewhere. I think I hear a black helicopter hovering over my house again.

I grew onions for the first time this year and here is my total harvest. I need to decide if I want to store them or find a good recipe for a dish that calls for a lot of onions.


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WOW great onions harvest.
Me too: first year growing onions ... I cannot believe I never grew them ... so easy

I have cured mine outside under the back porch and now they are hanging in my upstairs bathroom = root cellar (no windows and the coolest room in the house)

Great job, hrp!! I had the best onion harvest this year that I've had, but not nearly as impressive as your harvest! I think you must have beginner's luck.

Oh yum, Drthor. That big slicing tomato makes my mouth water :0)
Very nice onions, Hrp!

Stephanie, I think we planted carrots around the same time, let me know when you harvest yours, ok? I don't know how much longer mine will hold out with this heat, I don't want them to get bitter. Yet, when I pulled a sample, there're not very big.

I'm not too impressed with my onions this year. The root system looked really small and the bulb sizes were all over the board, from tiny to large. To makes matters worse, one variety hasn't even fallen over or started to bulb yet?? Of course I have seedlings ready to go in their place...guess I need to look another area.

Elephant garlic and bush beans

Onions and the bed I pulled them from...you can see that the stalled onions are right in front of a trellis that's too late to move, because of the squash. I sometimes think the garden has a warped sense of humor :0)

wow cocoa_lulu what a fantastic harvest.
I am so envious of all your onions ... maybe it will be me next year!
For now I have tons of tomatoes ... some cukes and some long beans (which I dunno what to do with them yet)

We're all eating at your house tonight.lol
Looks good, remind me what variety of tomatoes are you growing this year?

Lynea, maybe you can uncover those onions to see if they've bulbed. It may also help them get going.

cocoa_lulu
huum I am growing so many varieties.
My favorite cherries are: Gold Nudget, Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, Sweet 100, Blonkchopchen (or something that sounds like this), Sungold ....
The larger ones, so far my favorite is Cherokee Purple ...

Tomatoes for breakfast ... lunch ... and dinner ... and the freezer is getting full ...

Definitely transplanting out tomatoes in February is worth here in Dallas: strong plants and great production!

One of the onions and garlic that I've harvested in the past week. We used these with dinner tonight.

I picked a few more green beans this evening after my husband picked a lot this morning. Then I pulled a couple of carrots to see if they were ready. It was quite tasty, but not fully ripe.

This morning, more peas (not pictured), green beans, and one carrot, which was quite tasty!

Stephanie, thanks. I poked around the remaining onions this morning. I think I have too much compost (which is rare) The roots don't seem to be reaching real soil and drying out quickly. I'll bump up the watering and hopefully get these out of my way soon. Thanks for the photo of your carrots, mine are the same, was worried I had late maturing variety. I think we have rain in the forecast next week, that always seems to 'plump them up'..that's their last chance as well:0)

Thanks Drthor, Gold Nugget is a first for me this year. I like it and will replant for sure!

Today I harvested a full basket of Swiss Chard.
I should have picked the tomatoes too ... they are just turning color from one day to the other so fast !!

Got the first decent picking of okra last night, The 'burgundy' okra is new for me this year. So far, very tender and tasty. I like it :0)

Very nice, Drthor. My lettuce and chard have become too bitter to enjoy :0(

cocoa_lulu
you have okra already?
huumm when did you transplanted outside?

My lettuce finished months ago ... by my Swiss Chard will go on forever with no bitterbess. Especially the white ribbed one.

My harvest today: tons of tomatoes, cucumbers and pole beans.
My record tomato this year is Virginia Sweet.