Harvest Monday: July 14, 2014

I am finally starting to get a bit more variety in my harvest!  New this week are Hungarian Hot Wax peppers and some Isobel pole beans.  I made a quick pickle with the cukes, peppers and onion.  The onion was an accidental harvest while weeding - obviously nowhere near ready yet.

And although I posted about my garlic problems, I neglected to include them in a previous Harvest Monday post so here are some of them being cleaned up.

And another big batch of lettuce greens ...

And I decided it was time for a big basil harvest before they all start to flower.  I made yet another pesto; this time the more traditional style with basil and pine nuts (a quadruple batch).

I made a tasty pasta with some of the greens from the previous week (arugula, spinach, etc.) plus fresh cherry tomatoes (not mine), peppers and some oven-dried tomatoes leftover from last fall.

See what other gardeners are harvesting this week at Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday posting!

Yard Update - July 13

This is the second part of my 3 part yard update (yesterday's post said I would do it in two posts, but too many pics at once) ... just a way to document what is going on at this time of the year.

Again, in no particular order, here are some pics of the yard this weekend:

Hungarian Hot Wax peppers

Either black krim or brandywine - I don't remember (in "old" greenhouse)

Tomatoes in garden

Volunteer potato in this year's tomato garden

Borage (crazy huge) planted between strawberries and tomatoes

Borage on left, tomatoes on right (beans in back)

 

Beans got nibbled, but some came back ...

Borage again

Chocolate cherry tomatoes

Tomatillos

Red peppers

Ancho pepper

Jalapenos

Pimento peppers

Yard Update - July 12

I like to post a yard update every once in a while so my family on the west coast can see what is going on.  But it is also useful for me to check back on what was happening in previous years at the same time and know what to expect in the coming weeks.

That is also one of the main reasons that I have started contributing to Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday posts.  This coming winter (ugh, don't really want to think about it) and next spring, I will be able to look back on the posts and adjust my seeding schedule based on how much of which plants I would like to harvest each week.

So this is just a bunch of random shots of various plants around the yard.  Too many pics to show at once, so I'm splitting it into two separate posts.

In no particular order ...

Potatoes have exploded with recent rains

Potatoes flowering so will start pulling baby potatoes soon

Single daylily

These are the more common daylilies seen all over Eastern Ontario

Isabel Pole Bean Plants in the "old" Greenhouse

Isabel Pole Bean

 

Blueberry bush in container (had a dozen or so berries so far)

The "Greens" garden: non-stop harvesting

Sunflowers already - started indoors early spring

Sunflower doing its job - attracting beetles away from veggies

Swiss chard in front half, borlotti beans in back

Several carrot varieties surrounded by onions

Several beet varieties surrounded by onions

Nasturtium

Volunteer onions from last year

Onion seed head - that's why I get so many volunteers!

Onions planted from seedlings this year