If you have ever watched the show "Most Dangerous Catch" about crabbing in Alaska, you know how exciting it is to pull up the crab pot that is overflowing with snow crabs. Today was the biggest one day haul of the the year. We harvested:
Cucumbers
Acorn Squash
Radish
Fava beans
Beets
Swiss Chard
The total weight today was 3.57 Kilograms which would be enough calories to support one person for a whole week. It was amazing to pull up the beets and see the root bulb under the leaves. We ate six different vegetables at lunch, including beet greens.
While I was away the harvest continued with a total of 3.6 Kilograms over the last several days.
All total for the year we have now harvested
29.2 Kilograms or 65lbs
FAVA BEANS
Fava Beans are very mysterious and although I would not say that they have been the most prolific thing to grow, they are one of the most interesting.
The plant is tall with pods that stick off of the stem and remind me of the the way coco pods grow on the trees that chocolate comes from.
The pods are thick and the bean inside looks like a normal bean but if you bite it you will find that it is bitter and hard. Then if you boil these for just a minute to blanch you can open each bean and get the bright green bean inside. So these beans have to be shelled twice and you loose a lot of mass of the food to the double shelling as opposed to the Sugar Snaps where you get to eat the whole thing.
A lady just stopped while I was picking beans, cumbers and squash to tell me how pretty it was. i told her we have got more then 65 pounds of produce so far. She said that was amazing. I said it was my son's garden.
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