What're ya harvesting?

[LowKey]

Just started getting some produce from the garden (northern MA, zone 5-). Mostly Broccoli and loose-head lettuce. Beans will be along in a couple of weeks and the early onions are starting to tip.

I think I'm gonna have to take an axe to my Marrow squash plants. OMG they are out the fence and across the yard.

The PYO place up the street is offering Blueberries and Raspberries so I know where I'm going this weekend.

[nell67]

Cucumbers are going strong now,new baby potatoes,yummy,onions,broccoli and cauliflower are done now.

Went and picked 3 gallons of blueberries this evening,gave a gallon of them to my Amish neighbor lady,she is always sending me fresh bread and doughnuts,so I am returning the favor.

Will be picking them again in a few days.

[Rick]

I picked through the first run of strawberries. The second run has started. My purslane and nasturtiums have been up a while and we've been eating on those. Blackberries in a week(?) I hope. Oh, some currants and a few raspberries.

[Winnie]

Strawberries, raspberries(when I can beat the birds), currants, Pak choi and salad leaves.

[your_comforting_company]

Put up our third picking of peas and butterbeans yesterday. Zippers, purple-hull (cowpea is actually in my "weeds" book), okra, butterbeans. Potatoes didn't make it. Got some sclerotium rolfsii fungus going on and gotta do some treatments. Tomatos in hanging buckets are doing really well.
Most everything else is wild stuff.. the onions and garlic, and a few greens are coming from the yard and woods. blueberries, mock strawberries, dewberries, and cherries. Still watching the elderberries.
I'm moving away from the high maintenance garden and trying to get into the wild plants mode. I have prickly lettuce plants 9 foot tall and several other edibles scattered around. by next year I hope to have carrots and kinnikinnick established, as well as a few dwarf pawpaws to be transplanted from my mom's yard.

[grrlscout]

Just a few tomatoes and chile peppers, every couple of days.

[Chris]

raspberries new this week, beets, first planting of spinach has been eaten, purslane, first zuke was today, blueberries, cherries done.

And some animal keeps eating the tops of my sweet potato vines.

[Winnie]

Apart from that, Chris, how are the sweet potatoes doing? I seem to recall you were going to try a new growing method and/or variety.

[LowKey]

Ugh, my sweet potatoes are just sitting there. Thought I'd try them this year but must be too far north, not enough sun in a day or something. I have them in big blue bins out on the side drive where they get the most sun probably in the entire neighborhood.

YCC, I'd have thought you were too far south for blueberries.

[your_comforting_company]

They aren't technically blueberries, but huckleberries and kinnikinnick. Although a few of my neighbors have blueberry bushes planted. They actually do really well here if they are in partial shade.
Wife is talking about making some small jars of jam with them and the cherries. She said she has her grandma's recipe for making some sort of onion "spread" too.. kinda like onion butter? I don't know, I'm a pretty simple guy and just eat the onions lol, but hopefully she'll get to it soon and I'll have some pics to share.

[LowKey]

Just an update. The garden is going crazy.
Had to harvest three of my Boston Marrows because the vines withered up in the heat. One of them was bad inside, some kind of alien borer bug got in there, but the other two turned into 2 pies and 3 quarts of frozen pureed squash. Mondo squash is still out there and several more coming on.

The yellow crooknecks won't stop. 15 bags in the freezer and counting.

The yellow beans are done and the second planting is in and up, but some kind of rodent is in there eating them. Has to be a mouse/rat/chipmunk. Anything larger would have taken out the whole row. Strewed some spearmint and peppermint along the rows. Maybe keep it away.

I tried making spaghetti sauce with the tomatoes. Never made that before from the ground up (always used tomato paste). It takes a LOT of tomatoes to do that. Now I know why Grandpa bought crates of tomatoes at the Haymarket...
Mine came out ok, but from 2 dozen tomatoes it was only one dinner's worth. There's more out there but might just stew them.

Today was canning day. 9 pints of pickles, 6 jam jars of peach jam (peaches from the farmer up the street), and 4 jam jars of spearmint jelly. I didn't have any green food color for the mint jelly so everyone's been joking about the canned jellied pisswater. Fine, they don't have to eat it.
Caught the mint just right. It was just starting to show bud tips and it's been fairly dry the last week so it was good and strong.

Will try to get a picture tomorrow when the sun comes up.

[Winnie]

At the moment young Borlotto beans I don't have enough room to grow them for drying. Runner beans have just started, Cherry tomatoes are just coming on.

[rwc1969]

Autumn olive fruit, Hazelnuts, whatever elderberries the birds haven't got to and maters.

[LowKey]

This is the garden and the outta control squash, top background. Yeah. Weedy. Some of that is carrots to the left and there are some pawpaw seedlings in pots in the grass by the cold frame. It keeps them from drying out.
New beans and lettuce coming up center. Foreground seedlings are new turnips between cauliflower and NZ spinich.
Squash in the back, cukes and yellow pole beans to the right. Can't see the tomaters in this shot in the back corner behind the cukes.

Second group is the squash jumping the fence (Mondo in center) another shot of Mondo with a rake for scale, and a shot of Soon To Be Pie from last week (Mondo's smaller cousin).

[crashdive123]

Good looking garden LK. That is some big squash.

[Winnie]

Lovely plot, Lowkey. Is that a summer squash?

[LowKey]

That orange thing is a winter squash.
There are only 6 plants out there but they are going cross county.
There are 4 hills of summer squash in the same area. They are bush crooknecks and have been relatively well behaved but definitely bigger than expected.

I did something different this year on that side of the garden. I trenched in fresh manure and graded about 4 or 6 inches of soil back over it. Apparently squash like it like that.

Actually the only reason I trenched it was cuz I had some 'composted cow manure' dumped off. What I got was leaf compost mixed with very fresh horse manure and I had to bury it quick before it stunk up the neighborhood. Details, details. LOL!

[nell67]

What am I harvesting??? While my garden is going to pot,I have butchered 100++ chickens and 40 something rabbits in the past 6 weeks,just finished chickens (mine) yesterday,and rabbits (sisters) today,for a while anyway.

Got another guy who wants me to butcher his chickens, but hasn't told me when,and the dude with the 62 + (no kidding, everytime I went over there,there was more than when I left......) is planning on buying 50 Cornish cross every 2 months now for my to butcher .....

Working on putting my corn up while I sit here and read,and later will work on tomatoes again,gotta dig up the taters and finish up the cucumbers and green peppers then I am done with those.

[crashdive123]

Sounds like you're going to have to buy another freezer for all that chicken - or get really comfortable with chicken jerky.

[nell67]

Got a second one 2 weeks ago