This week featured tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes (it's a good thing we like 'em), a few potatoes and carrots (it's a good thing we like those, too) and a tiny bit of the first fall lettuce!!!
As tomatoes have been ripening in the garage, we've been bringing them inside and either eating them or freezing them for later. My hope is still to have a few tomatoes ripening right around Thanksgiving, but at this rate, I'm not quite sure!
We were quite disappointed by our potato harvest this year (not quite 11 pounds total), but as I said yesterday, I think we've taken away some valuable lessons :-)
Harvesting is lots of fun for Littles! Beastie was more than happy to tear apart the dirt in our experimental pots of carrots! I planted carrots, radishes (fail), sage (fail), pole beans and tomatoes mid summer just to see what would happen. The carrots did remarkably well! Even though they are kind of small, they are very tasty and will be perfect chopped up and put in stews!
This weeks totals:
Tomatoes = 2 pounds 15 ounces
Potatoes = 10 pounds 11 ounces
Potatoes = 10 pounds 11 ounces
Carrots = 2 pounds
Lettuce = 1 ounce
Lettuce = 1 ounce
TOTAL OF 15 pounds 11 ounces this week!!!
HAPPY HARVESTING!!!
My youngest is my main garden helper, too. It's so fun to get the kids involved when they're young so they can learn how to garden. Great harvests this week!
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest. When other garden totals are going down, yours seems to be going up! Your garden helper is too cute. We love our helpers too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dorothy and Jody! I am grateful for the harvests and even more grateful for to have the most fantastic 6 year old friend! :-)
ReplyDeleteInterestingly coloured carrots - I've just packet of mixed colour seed. What did you think of the flavour of those?
ReplyDeleteLiz - These are Cosmic Purple and they taste great! They're purple on the outside and bright orange on the inside. My teenage daughter and her friends love them, too, which is helpful :-)
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