This weekend, I harvested my first tomatoes and eggplants. It was also quite the weekend for harvesting beans, peppers, and cucumbers, too. I harvested 3 eggplants, 19 cucumbers, 2 pounds of tomatoes, 5 pounds of peppers, and 5 pounds of snap beans.
HARVEST ON JUNE 12:
Items are listed clockwise from the top:
Boston pickling & Beit Alpha cucumbers, mini yellow stuffing pepper, Beurre de Rocquencourt wax beans, Black Valentine beans, Dragon Tongue beans, Cherokee Purple & Mortgage Lifter & Riesentraube tomatoes
HARVEST ON JUNE 14:
I am very pleased with the production of this Israeli variety of cucumber. Crisp and tasty, too. Definitely a keeper.
Beit Alpha cucumbers
Items are listed clockwise from the top:
Emerald Giant green bell peppers, Boston pickling cucumber, Cubanelle peppers
HARVEST ON JUNE 15:
And more beans!
Black Valentine beans, Dragon Tongue beans, Beurre de Rocquencourt wax beans
Most of my chili peppers are barely starting to ripen (if at all yet), but the Filius blue peppers are quite prolific.
Filius blue peppers & pepperoncini
Items are listed clockwise from the top:
Beit Alpha & Boston pickling cucumbers, Listada de Gandia (striped) & Black Beauty eggplant, Rutgers & Riesentraube & Mortgage Lifter & pear & Cherokee Purple tomatoes
The tomatoes are on my counter in front of the window, finishing to ripen. I think today will be the day I sink my teeth into them! This makes all the hard work worth it, doesn’t it?
What are you harvesting from your garden?
Sanctuary Gardener 