Harvest Monday - 10 September 2018

Hello again from Eight Gate Farm. The weather has had a distinct fall feel, especially over the weekend when the low temperatures flirted with the 40s. Accordingly, things are slowing down.

There was only one new crop this week, Spanish onions. I grew these from purchased starts. Some are large for us, though in the supermarket I suppose they would only be "mediums."

Spanish onions

Determinate tomatoes, zucchini, and pickling cucumbers are still being harvested in reasonable quantities.

With what we had accumulated on Tuesday, The Kitchen Goddess canned seven pints of all-purpose tomato sauce.

Then, as the days went by, I brought in this:

This:

And this:

Guess what she's doing today!

In other crop notes, the yellow-eye beans were judged ready for storage. It's a pretty good amount, 3 pounds 9.5 ounces. I won't need to grow them next year.

Kenearly Yellow-eye beans

Fall raspberries are ripening nicely.

And from her community garden plot, TKG's Blue Jade corn, which we did not particularly like as sweet corn, was instead left to dry on the cob. She shelled them this week. They will make nice blue cornmeal.

Blue Jade corn shucked and dried.

And she brought home two nice artichokes.

Imperial Star artichokes

That's all for this week. Thanks for reading! Please read all the Harvest Monday posts, brought to you by Dave at HappyAcres.blog.