Harvest Monday

It's Harvest Monday over at Daphne's Dandelions where fellow gardeners are showing off the week's harvest. Make a visit there to see what everybody's bringing in this week!

 My Swallow eggplants are producing very well this year! They are  a small to medium sized Asian type eggplant. My other varieties are a little slower, but I got a few small white Caspar eggplants. Unfortunately, they seem to be attractive to bugs or slugs, because I have yet to pick one that isn't marred with holes! The one pictured above had a little judicious positioning for the picture!

 Still getting plenty of zucchini and far fewer yellow summer squash. But the plants are just about done in by squash bugs. I have killed as many as I can get my mitts on but have not been able to keep well ahead of their damage. I have a second planting of summer squash that are just beginning to produce and they are still looking very healthy.

 Harvested about two thirds of my onions. They are fewer and smaller than last year for reasons I don't know about, but hoping there are enough to get me through the year. They are curing now and I will pull the rest when they are ready, probably next week sometime.

 I have about thirty hard-neck garlic, cured and trimmed now. Another ten of the biggest and best bulbs have been set aside as seed to plant out in October for next year. I'm very pleased with this as it is twice as many as I had for use last year and that's not including my soft-neck garlics in the count. Homegrown garlic was such a wonderful discovery last year I never want to look back! Also harvested shallots earlier in the week.

 The first decent harvest of tomatoes, about six pounds of various types. Most need to ripen a bit more, but I hope to be able to can a small batch this week.

 We're having wonderful green pepper production. I'm growing Jimmy Nardello, Lipstick, Ace, King of the North, Bridge to Paris, Peacework, Red Knight...I think that's all of them. They will be prepped for the freezer and used throughout the year.

Cukes are much much slower this year. Last year I was giving them away by the bagful, but this year I'm just hoping to get enough to make a batch or two of pickle relish that my son loves so much. The carrots look nice, but they are still so small! Any secrets out there about how to get them to grow bigger? I'm trying to leave them in the ground as long as possible, but that's always a gamble with all the voles I have trolling around looking for nice roots to eat. And in the front of the plate above, there's a handful of Fortex green beans. They are producing steadily, but the plants are not robust, so I'm just getting a few at a time.
We've had such hot weather the past week that the harvest has slowed down a bit, but this week should improve a bit. My second patch of Fresh Pick green beans is blossoming and should be giving us beans next week and the first patch is getting ready to blossom again with its second round of beans.
Hope everyone is swimming in wonderful veggies this week!