Harvest Monday

Here it is Monday again and time to join in the weekly garden show-and-tell hosted at Daphne's Dandelions where gardeners everywhere are sharing what they harvested this past week.

 With all our partial shade here, I do better with greens than many other veggies. Kale is still producing nicely. This batch went into a large kettle of kale and bean soup, made on an unusually damp and chilly day last week, a day that felt more like late September than early August.

 I have finally managed to grow some reasonably heat tolerant lettuce so we are still having salads, with home-grown tomatoes even! The heat tolerant varieties I'm using are Nevada, Pablo, Anuenue, Jericho and Concept. I think I am happiest with the Pablo, but they are all staying relatively sweet (certainly not like the early spring lettuce, but enough to enjoy) and only just beginning to bolt.
And look! A couple of little carrots! Maybe I will get a carrot harvest after all if I can only be a little patient. The broccoli keeps giving many side shoots and I also harvested my remaining early cabbage, which are being turned (I hope) into sauerkraut.

 The picture above and the picture below show the gist of what I've been bringing in this week. The tomatoes are still ripening maddeningly slowly while the plant disease is moving maddeningly fast. Cucumbers are coming in at a good pace and this year we have refrigerator dills again. Yay! And though the photo is a bit unclear, at the top of the basket there are two zucchini! They are from the second planting of zucchini after the failure of the first. Not a lot, but still...

 The yellow Gold Marie Vining beans keep coming in like gangbusters. Pounds of them! This variety is definitely a keeper for me and since my bush green beans have been a bit sluggish this year, they are keeping us in beany goodness. The two light colored trombocino squash are not done justice in the photo. Each one is almost two feet long and they each weigh close to 2 pounds apiece. And there is the first eggplant of what will probably be a very small quantity this year.

Lastly I present a small bunch of basil and a few scallions! The scallions were a part of my interplanting experiment. They'd been planted between early cabbage and I expected the scallions to be ready before the cabbage got large, but it went the opposite way around! The cabbage were all harvested and then the scallions began to get larger.  Still, I'm glad of that outcome because I have some nice scallions to use now for salads and recipes. That's my week here in eastern Connecticut where the weather is getting more like typical August now! Check out all the other great harvests at Daphne's Dandelions!