Harvest Monday - 22 July 2019

Like much of the eastern US, we had a three-day heat wave over the weekend. For us, it meant temps in the mid-90s, not as bad as other parts, but still pretty warm by our standards. I think overall it had a good effect on the gardens.

We had a number of first harvests this week. Leading off is the star of our gardens, the noble artichoke! Petite in size, it had great flavor, and we shared it equitably!

Green Globe artichoke

We had several pickings of bush beans.

Calima filet beans

The first Arcadia broccoli. All the broccoli is only making fist-sized head this year.

The first White Egg turnip.

One of the onions started bolting, so I pulled it.

Immature Stuttgarter onion

I'm growing Red Norland potatoes for the first time this year, along with my old standby, Kennebec. Norland clearly matures faster, as the leaves started dying back this week. The Kitchen Goddess robbed a plant to see what was there: three lovely potatoes. We had these chopped along with the above onion, doused with EVOO, and put in foil on the grill. Delicious! Somewhat starchier than Kennebec.

Red Norland potatoes

We got the first jostaberries, racing the birds to them.

Jostaberry

And the first red raspberries.

For a sampling of continuing harvests, here's a Yellowfin zucchini along with a Purple Top White Globe turnip and a Fiesta broccoli head.

Finally enough shishito peppers to indulge ourselves. This time, instead of grilling and sprinkling with sea salt, TKG made a soy-ginger sauce to drizzle over them after grilling. Wonderful!

The kohlrabi is getting bigger and bigger, but there's only a few left.

Kolibri Purple F1

More salad mix for our nightly meals. No bitterness yet.

And lastly a very decent picking of blueberries, 1 1/4 pounds.

That's it for this week. Maybe this coming week we will finally get tomatoes! Sure would be nice. Thanks for reading, and thanks as always to Dave at HappyAcres.blog for hosting Harvest Monday.