Today’s garden harvest
Posted by: TammyI spent some time outside today thoroughly enjoying what could be one of the last remaining truly glorious days of summer. The sun had burned through a rather thick fog layer this morning and radiated it’s warmth down despite a pretty constant breeze. The breeze helped to keep the mosquitoes at bay, just a little. It’s truly been difficult to enjoy the outdoors this year because of those blood-sucking creatures.
My raspberries are moving past the peak of their harvest but being that they’re an ever-bearing variety noted for their production right until the first frost, I’m still getting quite the daily haul. I’ve had such a bounty of berries this year, I’ve actually splurged and made raspberries dumplings one day! It seemed like such a decadence to have all those raspberries make one dessert, but those dumplings were delicious!
My french filet green beans seemed to have finally decided to produce. Although recommended by a favorite gardening book, I don’t think I’d plant them again. They are small and have taken forever to give me about 6 beans/plant. I hope they blossom and produce a bit more. My pole beans are coming into full production as well. My only issue with them is that I can never find anything tall enough to allow them to grow up all they want and still have some way to reach the harvest. They are currently a green cascade haphazardly balanced on a line stretched along the support poles to the vertical fences. You can see their greenery on the left fence in this picture:
My tomatoes have finally decided to turn red. In this pictures you can see my red globes, chocolate cherries and grape tomatoes next to my purple basil.
The green beans on the left side are those french filet beans.
You can see the two cups or so of raspberries I picked as well.
Tomorrow I’m taking the kitchen snips to my sage and lavender. I still haven’t replaced my dehydrator yet. I did a test drying of both by simply hanging them by strings in the kitchen and it worked like a charm (why wouldn’t it considering people have been drying like that for generations).
I should have started planting my cold frame but I’m honestly both terrified by the large spiders that created a fine summer retreat in there and put off by the blood suckers I’ll have to beat off to get things planted in there. Okay, it’s more about the spiders than the mosquitoes.