I think the only way I can get a Harvest Monday post done on a Monday is to do it in the wee hours, i.e., by staying up late Sunday night. It is now 2 am west coast time.
I just updated my year total for fruits and vegetables. Check the sidebar to the right. My goal for the year is 350 lbs, or half the amount of produce that an average American couple eats. That will be 100 lbs more than I produced in either of the past two years, so I have my work cut out for me.
This is a record year for fruit harvest. I have already exceeded the pounds of fruit harvested in 2010 and 2011 and it’s only June. I still have avocados, peaches, nectarines, lemons, limes and apples to harvest.
My vegetable harvests are finally kicking into a higher gear after the skimpy harvests of green stuff early in the year. My vegetable total to date is 114 lbs. Not too shabby for such a little yard. I have a Gro-Pot of blue potatoes in our driveway that is nearly ready to harvest, and the tomatoes and squash look like they’re going to give me a crop this year. I may finally be getting the hang of this vegetable garden thing. About time. I’ve been gardening since 1962.
Here are the makings of a nice Italian side dish. Saute sliced squash, onion, and garlic in olive oil until squash is browned. Add a splash of vinegar and top with grated Parmesan cheese.
Here is the squash sauté plus some fettucini with Italian sausage and spaghetti cause canned in 2010. Didn’t get enough tomatoes last year to can any sauce, although a froze a few packages. That’s all gone and I’m down to my last two jars of spaghetti sauce.
The entire harvest of apricots, plus nearly the entire harvest of blueberries and a handful of strawberries, made two servings for our breakfast. Those tree ripened apricots were incredibly sweet, best I’ve ever eaten. The chickens contributed the eggs for our scramble, which has green onions from the garden and grated cheese.
Four lbs of bok choy, some chard, our first ripe tomato, and the first Babcock peach of the season filled my harvest trug.
Look again. The first tomato of the season is snuggled next to a Babcock peach in that photo. Mortgage Lifter won the race. It deserved its own photo, but I was pressed for time. Not sure who is going to come in second as none of the others are close to ripening.
Today’s harvest of snow and sugar snap peas (10 oz) went into a stir fry along with bok choy, chard, and some slices of leftover steak.
Harvest Monday totals for week ending June 17, 2012
FRUIT
1 lb 13 oz Lemon, Meyer
3 oz Lime
3 oz Peach, Babock
Subtotal 2 lbs 3 oz FRUIT
VEGETABLES
4 lbs 10 oz Bok Choy
17 oz Chard
14 oz Peas, Snow and Snap
3 oz Onion, Green Bunching
14 oz Squash, Yellow Straightneck
4 oz Tomato, Mortgage Lifter
Subtotal 6 lbs Vegetables
TOTAL 8 lbs 3 oz PRODUCE plus 5 eggs
If you had a harvest, or to see what others are harvesting, visit Daphne’s Dandelions.
