The week started out hot and humid; great for plant growth if not so much for sleeping. Then, after a rainstorm, the temperatures moderated, resulting in smiles all around.
Beans are keeping us well-supplied.
And we're still trying to get what spring lettuce we can, pre-bolting.
We got another ripe "Taxi" tomato. This time, I'll show how it formed part of a satisfying light dinner for a warm summer evening. It's drizzled with EVOO and sea salt, and served with Burrata. Delightful!
More summer squash, not out of control yet:
Our first shishito-type pepper. I am hoping that taking this large one will stimulate the plant into putting out more fruit.
Raspberries are still trickling in.
As are artichokes, two per week.
Our first cucumber, not very big but badly craved-for.
Some more of the above, now shown as a summer ensemble.
Right on schedule, time to harvest our Stuttgarter storage onions. Pulling onions is just so much fun!
For those practicing square foot gardening, I've proved to myself that spacing them farther apart than the recommended 16 per square (this is 9) produces larger bulbs.
And, like last year, we robbed the Kennebec potato vines at the same time as the onion harvest, to see what was happening. Not bad! We'll let the rest mature for another month or so.
I took the last of the Blauwschokkers soup peas, shown here in their former space, in which late-fall broccoli will be transplanted in a few weeks.
And lastly, our first ripe red tomato! This is the heirloom "Caspian Pink." And yes, I'm showing the good side.
That's it for this week. Thanks for reading! Click on back to Daphne's Dandelions for more Harvest Monday fun.
Nice harvest. Still waiting for my first cucumber. The onion harvest looks great. I agree, I space my onions at 9 per square, sometimes even 5 per square for the bigger ones. !6 would be OK for scallions but not bulbs.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dave. Good to get confirmation about onion-spacing.
DeleteYour onions look so great! I am terrible at great onions, so always love to see others who are good at it. And that yellow tomato looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susie. I might suggest planting onion sets; it's easy and we've gotten good results.
DeleteCongrats on the first ripe tomato! And those potatoes are huge - I can't believe that it will be another month until the plant matures. And I'll chime in with the onions as well - I do 4" spacing for the normal storage types (Copras, etc.) but 6" spacing for the large Ailsa Craigs & this seems to produce good sizes.
ReplyDeleteI guess we are a few days behind you weather wise - we just had some rainy days and the hot & muggy is turning to perfect gardening weather this week.
Thanks, Margaret. Good advice about the onions. Funny, usually our weather comes from your way.
DeleteThat is a lot of onions. I go between spacing them 6" and spacing them 5". But 4" I've found way to close together. Like you found, they just don't size up well that way. I hate tiny onions in the kitchen. The larger ones are so much easier to use.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Daphne. Totally agree about large onions.
DeleteBeautiful! Love the overload of onions and that gorgeous tomato.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jenny. We use a lot of onion, so to us it's not an overload!
DeleteThose are 'new' Kennebecs? I probably said this last year, but I need to start growing them again. They made monster potatoes at my old place. And I knew I wasn't the only one who showed the good side of my veggies! You should be well supplied with storage onions by the looks of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I remember you saying that about the Kennebecs. I'm at the point where I don't want to try any other variety.
DeleteGorgeous tomato! I'm still waiting for my first Caspian Pink which will be a while yet, they are still as green as they can possibly be. I always show the good sides of the veggies, unless of course they don't have one. My onions are spaced 4 inches apart but in rows 9 inches apart. I may give them an extra inch next year, some of them came out with flat sides from being too cozy with their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michelle. The Caspian Pink is a great tomato. I would not say my onions looked crowded at 4", so yours must be really large.
DeleteCongratulations on your first tomato! Your potatoes look wonderful too. I just dug up a few Kennebecs for dinner and was happy to find some good sized ones. Beautiful onion harvest! I usually space my onions 4-inches apart to give them room to bulb out. I don't always follow the SFG recommendations.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful plants. I love growing my own food. I am pretty limited because of the climate I live in but I still do what I can. I was considering starting to grow several things inside through something like an aquaponics or hydroponics setup. There are some pretty decent lights and other neat technology available now on the market for purchase.
ReplyDeleteHeidi Sutton @ Ag Source Magazine