Thursday, September 25, 2014

Fall Veggie Transplants & Today's Harvest

Fall is here, and so is the beautiful Texas weather that I live for.  Every moment that I can spend outside in the garden, I do.  

A few days ago, I bought some fall veggie transplants and got them into the ground.  First, I had to clean up one of the beds for the veggies.  It wasn't too difficult, since before South Africa, I had turned the beds and tried to plant some seeds, which never really came up.  I also tore out all the dead marigolds.

Then, I planted the transplants, along with a few seeds.


From left to right I planted:

  • 1 Toscano Kale (transplant)
  • Dwarf Blue Curled Vates Kale (seeds)
  • 2 Gypsy Broccoli (transplants)
  • 2 Calabrese Broccoli (transplants)
  • 1 Marathon Broccoli (transplant)
  • 4 Brussel Sprout - unknown variety (transplants)
  • 1 Long Island Brussel Sprout (transplant)
  • 1 Nautical Brussel Sprout (transplant)
  • Lacinato Kale (seeds)
  • 3 Kale - unknown variety (transplants)
  • and along the trellis - Mammoth Melting Sugar Peas (seeds)
While it may be fall, I still have a few summer veggie plants (peppers and eggplant) that are still producing, so they will stay in the beds until the are no longer fruitful.  Today I harvested the below.  I'm not quite sure why the eggplant turned yellow, but I assume it has something to do with staying on the plant for quite awhile, since this is my first harvest after being away from home for almost 3 weeks.



Harvest Totals (since April)
  • 5 lbs Cherry Bell Radishes
  • 3 lbs Giant Fordhook Swiss Chard
  • 3 lb 5.5 oz Pic-N-Pic Summer Squash (5 squash)
  • 5 lbs 6.3 oz Black Beauty Zucchini (3 squash)
  • 13.7 oz Mammoth Melting Sugar Peas
  • 11.6 oz Mucho Nacho Jumbo Jalapeno (13)
  • 15.7 oz Jalapeno (9)
  • 2 lb 2.4 oz Bush Blue Lake 274 Green Beans
  • 1 lb 8.7 oz Gypsy Sweet Peppers (14)
  • 1 lb 15.9 oz Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato
  • 2 lb 7.5 oz Juliet Roma Grape Tomato
  • 3 lb 12.0 oz Early Girl Tomato (12)
  • 1 lb 10.4 oz Big Boy Tomato (3)
  • 1 lb 7.3 oz oz Bradley Heirloom Tomato (4)
  • 2 lb 2.3 oz Roma Tomato (22)
  • 5 lb 4.0 oz Long Eggplant (21)
  • 11 lb 0.1 oz Black Beauty Eggplant (12)
  • 1 lb 10.2 oz Pablano Pepper (22)
  • 1 lb 2.0 oz Acorn Squash (1)
  • 1 lb 1.0 oz Butternut Squash (1)
  • 1 lb 6.6 oz Spaghetti Squash (1)
  • 1 lb 10.1 oz Green Bell Sweet Pepper (10)
  • 2.1 oz Cayenne Pepper (9)
  • 11 lb 11.1 oz Marketmore 76 Cucumbers (11)
  • 3 lb 7.9 oz Okra (63)
  • 3.8 oz Serrano Pepper (14)

2 comments:

  1. That is quite a haul! You've become an accomplished small scale producer there. What will you do with all those jalapeño peppers? Do you do a lot of canning and preserving as well?

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    1. I really haven't gotten into canning and preserving yet - but I definitely need to start to, because it is so difficult to try to use up everything while it is fresh. I mostly just try to cook meals that use the fresh veggies that I have on hand for the time being, so there are a lot of Tex Mex and other spicy dishes in our immediate future! Everything else that I can't eat I try to pawn off on neighbors and friends.

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