The harvest has been large and the items that have been harvest span the scale in size. First we have the cucumber on steroids. This monster which weighs one KG or just over 2 lbs was lost in the wilderness(or rather the cotoneaster hedge. The oldest and smallest garden plot has a hedge that greatly screens it from the road. The vine grew over the top and the monster of its own weight fell through the branches to remain hidden till the new farmer harvested it today. I am not sure I should count in toward my food weight but I will. It is certainly eatable if not palatable and will probably be pretty good with the skin off, seeds out and cooked into a soup.
The other food item of which there are many are the mini-tomato. Now, we have harvested a few of the larger tomato today. I have not had a chance to taste the new heirlooms that have come in because we had squash, beans, cucumbers and beets (all from the garden) for supper tonight so no room on the plate and I have zoomed right past the 5 fruits and veggies a day are advised by those dietitians in the know.
Yesterday I mentioned drying foods like the tomatoes. This lead to looking at a number of DIY videos with remarkably serious and earnest people demonstrating their dehydrators. If you need to be cheered I advise plugging this into Google and up will pop up a number of very droll videos on the how and whys of desiccating just about anything. Nonetheless, the Farmer's Wife and Daughter decided to use the unusually hot weather to dry some tomatoes. They can be quite good and have a very rich and sweet taste with some chewiness that work well in one our favorite pasta dishes at a local restaurant.
For the weigh in.
June 21 4.282 KG with almost 1000 grams of tomatoes
June 22 1.000 KG of cukecumbers
June23 5.481 KG with another 1000grams of tomatoes and of course the 1 KG cucumber pictured above
All in all this is 9.763 KG + 61.950 is
71.715 KG or157.8 LBS
Yesterday I mentioned drying foods like the tomatoes. This lead to looking at a number of DIY videos with remarkably serious and earnest people demonstrating their dehydrators. If you need to be cheered I advise plugging this into Google and up will pop up a number of very droll videos on the how and whys of desiccating just about anything. Nonetheless, the Farmer's Wife and Daughter decided to use the unusually hot weather to dry some tomatoes. They can be quite good and have a very rich and sweet taste with some chewiness that work well in one our favorite pasta dishes at a local restaurant. 
New farmer's report for Friday June 25. Big harvest for today!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTomato's regular 180-- Tomato's Heirloom 846-- Cherry 2364--
Cucumber's 1789-- Z. Squash 126-- Light Z. Squash 270---Corn 771
Beets 181--- Melon 526--- Blueberries 542---
What do you think of this HARVEST????