Monday 7 October 2013

Harvest Monday - 7th October 2013

My harvest this past week has been mostly of tomatoes. Tons of them.

"Cherokee Purple"

It has been my best year ever for tomatoes and I'm still picking them in considerable quantity.


Of course, many of the tomatoes in the picture above were picked some while ago, but the amount of fruit I am picking means that the collection on the Dining Room table is actually getting bigger, not smaller, despite our efforts to consume tomatoes at more-or-less every meal! For instance, during the week Jane used about 3kgs of them to make another batch of ketchup, which she wrote about on her blog Onions and Paper

On Saturday I picked this basket of goodies:


In the basket are Cavolo Nero, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Beans, Chillis and Raspberries.


The yellow "Meravglia di Venezia" beans have not been very good. The yield has been unimpressive, and individually many of the beans have been poor specimens, often brown at the edges. What do you think of this corkscrew-shaped one?


The chillis are good-lookers though. Notice that I now have some ripe "Aji Limon", as well as more of the "Numex Suave Orange" and various red types. The dark green ones that look like Green Peppers are the "Poblano" chillis that I wrote about yesterday.


I also cut one of the "Webbs Wonderful" lettuces. This is a big Iceberg-type lettuce. To be honest, it was a bit disappointing, because although it looked fine from above, the lower parts of most of the leaves had been pretty severely slug-nibbled, and I was only able to use a few of the inner leaves. However, what there was, was nice and crunchy. Jane made a beautifully tangy French Dressing for it, and we ate it with our steaks on Saturday evening, alongside that fabulous Tomato salad I showed you.


15 comments:

  1. Beautiful harvests. And that is quite a haul of tomatoes.

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  2. You're still getting some good harvests this late in the season. I wondered what your corkscrew shaped bean was in the top photo and then realised before scrolling down.

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  3. Lovely veg, lots of different colours

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  4. A fresh tomato would be lovely right about now. Nice harvests!

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  5. Quite a nice harvest, Mark. Love all the colors and shapes.

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  6. What a lovely and varied harvest! Your photos are so pretty, I'm tempted to print them, frame them and hang them on my kitchen wall!

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    1. Thanks, Granny! They say that you eat with your eyes before you eat with your mouth, so I try to make my produce look as attractive as possible.

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  7. Your harvest basket looks really bright and pretty. I like the look of the white 'cork screw' bean, wonder what made it twist like that? The Cherokee tomato looks like it has attitude!

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  8. Our tomatoes are still ripening well on the plot greenhouse - still lots to go!

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  9. Your Cherokee purples are beauties. I have yet to pick a single one from my plant and it's not looking hopeful. It looks to me that the anchos have a hint of chocolate color to them so they may have begun to ripen.

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  10. A wonderful harvest, it all looks lovely in that basket.

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  11. Your harvests are always so colorful and beautiful looking! The tomatoes really are beauties!

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  12. Cracking harvest and great photos as always. Just a few toms, chillies and peppers left from the summer veg for me now. With the colder weather on it's way it'll be more roast dinners from now on!

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  13. A very impressive tomato collection indeed, Mark! And your other harvests are very colourful, it's a bountiful time of year still.

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