Harvest Monday - July 12th 2010

We pulled the last of the Romaine this week and some golf ball sized Beets:

There were some more beets pulled but they didn't make it on camera. I also ended up pulling and throwing out the last 2 massive heads of romaine because they had bolted and were very bitter.

Totals for the week:

Beets 5.55 oz/157.34 g

Romaine 8.9 oz/252.31 g

Weekly Total: 14.45 oz/409.65 g

Season Total: 2.88 lbs/1.305 kg

Tomato Watch: As of 7/9/10: 87 Tomatoes have set fruit.

Harvest Total and Tomato Watch widgets in the right-hand column have been updated.

One of my Sunflowers opened up on Friday as well:

If you want to see what others are harvesting or share in your own bounty, stop by Daphne's Dandelions the home of Harvest Monday.

Harvest Monday - July 5th 2010

We harvested more greens and herbs on Thursday:

(Top: Basil, Mint. Bottom: Romaine, Dill, Mesclun)

I was off to Cape Cod for the long weekend so did not get much gardening work done. We came back late Monday afternoon and made a quick stop at the plot so we could water everything after 3 days of 90F and higher temperatures they needed it. We were finally able to harvest some non-greens as well! We pulled the 2 surviving carrots from the poorly germinated first seeding as well as a test beet to see how things were looking:

(2 Baby Carrots & 1 Baby Beet)

Totals for the week:

Dill - 2 oz/56.70 g

Mint - .5o oz/14.17 g

Basil - .90 oz/25.51 g

Mesclun - 2.75 oz/77.96 g

Romaine - 5 oz/141.75 g

Beets - .70 oz/19.84 g

Carrots .95 oz/26.93 g

Weekly Total: 12.80 oz / 362.86 g

Season Total: 1.975 lbs/31.60 oz/895.84 g

Tomato Watch: As of 7/5/10 62 tomatoes have set fruit

Harvest Total and Tomato Watch widgets in the right-hand column have been updated!

If you want to see what others are harvesting or share in your own bounty, stop by Daphne's Dandelions the home of Harvest Monday.

Harvest Monday - June 28th 2010

We harvested more greens and some herbs this week. Earlier in the week I pulled all of our poorly preforming spinach as well as some of the 2nd planting of mesclun greens. 1.5 oz ounces of mesclun and 1.1 oz of spinach. Sadly that was all the spinach we were able to grow. I think a combination of poor weeding and inexperience did us in. Next crop of spinach will be better!

On Saturday we harvested cilantro, parsley, and a salad's worth of romaine, which is doing great. We should be able to pull some more romaine in the next week and a half before the plants are dug up completely. 1 oz of cilantro (just starting to flower) .35 oz of parsley and 4.25 ounces of romaine. Here are the herbs and the romaine taking an ice bath to get the dirt off:

For the week:
1.1 oz spinach, 1.5 oz mesclun, 4.25 oz romaine, .35 oz parsley, and 1 oz cilantro.
Weekly total: 8.2 oz/232.46 g
This weeks pushes me over the 1lb harvest total. Not a major milestone, but it's nice to know that I haven't flat out killed anything yet.
Total for the season:
1.175 lbs/18.8 oz/ 532.97 g
The harvest total for the season on the sidebar has been updated.
As has the tomato watch (23 tomatoes have set fruit as of Saturday!)

If you want to see what others are harvesting or share in your own bounty, stop by Daphne's Dandelions the home of Harvest Monday.

31 Days of Gardening

I've been gardening at the Fenway Victory Gardens for 4 weeks now. Here is what the plot looked like the day we picked it out:

(April 25th-Day 1)

Here is the drastically improved look 4 weeks later:

(May 22nd-Day 28)

After this weekend I really felt that the garden was coming together and starting to show some real signs of life and future vegetables! Here's a peek at what is springing to life in plot Z-1:

-Broccoli-

-Leeks-

-Greens-

-Beets-

-Peppers-

-Tomatoes-

-Herbs-

Missing form the photo's: Cabbage, Onion, Carrots, Spinach, Potato, Kentucky Wonder pole bean, Ottawa Cranberry pole bean, Garlic Chives, & Sage.

For the Beans, Potato, Garlic Chives & Sage seedlings have not sprouted yet or are just beginning to sprout. (A trellis and a pair of makeshift trellis' have been installed for the beans and await their arrival)

The Cabbage, Onion, and Carrots have developed very slowly so there isn't even enough to take pictures of.

The Spinach is another story. Some piece in the row are starting to look like spinach, others have clearly been bothered by the encroaching bindweed which we are doing our best to keep up with.

I suspect some of the seedlings which are slowly to develop were either planted late or are the victims of soil which developed a crust after a few rough rain storms. It's still early and there is plenty to grow so stay tuned!!