Thursday, June 30, 2011

Harvest update - June 30th


So far, so good! We've already harvested so much more then or total harvest last year in the garden.
We are weighing a lot of the vegetables so we can keep record and compare for future years.

We've been eating lots of Lettuce and Onions. The Strawberries have been done producing now for a couple weeks, but we did enjoy handfuls of these special treats! We've already had a couple harvests of Green Beans and froze 7 packages, and we've eaten lots of Pea's. I've put up 6 quarts of our favorite Pea Soup in the freezer. Our Cilantro is bolting already thanks to the hot temperatures, and we've gotten lots of basil as well.
A sink full of mulberries is a beautiful thing, but a freezer full of them is even better.
We've also had some luck finding some wild berries- mulberries. If you haven't eaten any before, they are delicious. They grow on Mulberry tree's, which makes harvesting more easy and plentiful than bushes. We ate the first of our Raspberries last night, not very many but super tasty!



Basil


Turns into pesto!  We put it in ice cube trays and freeze it so we can have it all winter long!



We picked over 3lbs in one night!

You can see 8 from this picture and believe it or not, there are even more than that there!
LOTS of Lettuce!

Great BIG tomato!

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