I have five Grow Pots of yams in the driveway.
With Thanksgiving only three days away, I hope that I have some yams to show in next week’s harvest. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Meanwhile, the harvests even in southern California are looking pretty green.
Hey, I was about to eat that Komatsuna leaf!
Now you know why there are some holes here and there in my harvests. I didn’t know what kind of butterfly he/she would turn into, but I knew he wasn’t a cabbage moth caterpillar. I carefully lifted him off the komatsuna, and put him onto some mizuna that I didn’t intend to harvest that day. Anyone know what kind of caterpillar it is?
Green, green, and more greens.
One day's harvest from the community garden.
Those are undoubtedly the last squash of summer. I still have 20 tomatoes on my Big Beef tomato, but these may be the last to ripen. Time will tell. If we get a warm spell, I could still harvest a few more tomatoes. Nothing more precious than a vine-ripened November tomato.
Harvest for week ending November 20, 2011
FRUIT
Zero, zilch, nada
VEGETABLES
1 lb 8 oz Carrots, Kyoto Red
9.5 oz Chard
2.5 oz Garlic, California Giant
5 oz Komatsuna (Japanese mustard greens)
4.5 oz Lettuce (red oak leaf and black-seeded Simpson)
2.5 oz Mizuna (Japanese mustard greens)
1.5 oz Snow Peas, Mammoth Melting
1.5 oz Spinach, Bloomsdale
10 oz Summer Squash, Lebanese
8.5 oz Tomato
12 oz Winter Squash, Green Kuri
TOTAL PRODUCE 5 lbs 1 oz, plus NO eggs, darn chickens aren’t laying
This week’s harvest puts me at 222 lbs for the year. My avocados are ready to harvest, the first of my navel oranges are ripe, and my yams may be ready, so six more Harvest Mondays should put me way past last year’s harvest of 224 lbs. To see what others are harvesting, visit Daphne’s Dandelions.
Lou Murray's Green World 
i am a novice gardener in long beach and i find your blog super inspiring and encouraging! thanks for all the info, it is certainly helpful in keeping me on track despite low yields this year (only my second year of gardening). hoping for more next year…
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Sarah, I’m glad you’re enjoying my blog. Living so close by, you must understand the difficulties of gardening in a small space and the joy of being able to garden year round.
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I am very impressed that you are still getting so much from the community garden! I must go there soon and see how other gardens are doing.
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Hey, Judi, my gardening neighbor, thanks for commenting. I miss you at the garden.
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What a bounty you are still getting in your gardens… shows what a difference a growing region can make. We are settling into the long winter of dark days and cold heavy rains.
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Laura, I hope my little harvests can give joy, at least visual joy, to northern gardeners who await spring.
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I’m sure the Mizuna won’t notice if it gets nibbled on. If it’s anything like ours, it could probably stand some pruning 😉 I swear Mizuna is indestructible! Impressed to see you’re still getting tomatoes. Our first rains in early October put an end to the season for us. We do still have a couple of late winter squash to pick though. Crossing my fingers you get some lovely yams in time for the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thanks, Claire. I thought that your area would grow food all winter too. Well, you have all of those lovely chickens.
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Wow! What a fantastic fall harvest!!!
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Thanks, Bee Girl. I’m looking forward to seeing you Down Under harvests while we have our winter.
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Wow, tomatoes and squashes this time of year.
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I know Mac, isn’t it amazing?
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Hope you get your yams. I have a hard time growing them here, the soil just isn’t good enough yet, while down in TX they were practically weeds…
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Mary, yams were made for the hot south. Here in cool coastal so Cal, they don’t do as well. My yams tend to be tiny. I’m going to check them today.
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I hope you get your yams in time! Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Lynn
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Oh your own home grown oranges!! YUM, do you harvest enough to make juice and orange cake? Great harvest, as your tomato season is ending ours is just begining,dreaming of vine ripe juicy tomatoes!!
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The furry caterpillars around here always turn into really boring looking moths but who knows what yours will become. I love your big mustard leaves (at least I think they are big mustard leaves) what do you use them for?
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I wonder what type of yam is that, is it yam bean? In south east asia, yam are usually refer as taro. Lovely goodies in your basket. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Hello Lou,
Hope you had a good yam harvest for your Thanksgiving table. Great harvest from your community garden.
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Norma, sadly our yams weren’t ready. We tried a few before Thanksgiving and they were small and flavorless. I’m giving them another month and will try them again in the New Year.
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