This past week has definitely been a salad week!
The tomatoes are ripening almost as quick as I can pick them, as are the cucumbers. And Runner Beans? We're inundated with them!
As you can see, I have also been picking more beetroot and French Beans, along with some more chillis ("Cyclon" and "Cayenne"), as well as the first of my yellow climbing beans "Meraviglia di Venezia":
The first of my "Zapotec Pleated" tomatoes was ready too:
I even got a handful of late-sown Radishes, though I'm not really very proud of them - they are nowhere near as good specimens as those I grew earlier in the year.
BTW: have you noticed that my collection of baskets is growing steadily? I love presenting my veg in baskets. They make such good photo subjects that way!
I got rid of lots of baskets that had held flower displays when trying a bit of decluttering. A shame really - your harvest photos are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI love the shape of Zapotec pleated. Did it taste as good as it looks?
ReplyDeleteLovely veggies. Those yellow pole beans are perfection!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like an interesting tomato. I've found a lovely beef tomato this year, I'll do a post on it soon.
ReplyDeleteWow what a bounty!
ReplyDeleteWow very impressive harvest this week. I especially like that top pic, so beautiful. The pleated tomato is so pretty too!
ReplyDeleteMy harvest is going mental too! It's great! August and September are the months I look forward to most because I rarely need to buy any salad or veg from the supermarket. Your baskets do look good indeed :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a harvest, Mark! Do you plan to can some of the bounty or freeze some or do you make lovely canned sauces? It seems too much for you and Jane to be able to use it all. Have you ever tried your hand at drying beans? or freeze-drying tomatoes?
ReplyDeleteHi Egretta; we do give away some of the produce to family and friends, but we eat most of it! I have in previous years dried some of my beans - e.g. The Cherokee Trail of Tears I had last year. We have frozen some veg, but to be honest, we always find them disappointing - never as good as fresh.
DeleteYes I notice your baskets. I only have the one. I really want more, but just haven't found any that I like. My current one is starting to get old. I hope it lasts a while longer.
ReplyDeleteThe yellow beans are very nice. If they taste as good as they look it certainly seems like a good choice. The green pole beans can be hard to find in all the foliage.
ReplyDeleteI do indeed love your baskets, wonderful. The cucumbers look great, are they greenhouse ones? I'm guessing they are, they look quite pampered! The yellow beans look fantastic. This is such a great time of year. The harvest - what it is all about.
ReplyDeleteNo, CJ, the cucumbers are grown outdoors - like everything else, because I don't have a greenhouse.
DeleteLooks like a great harvest to me. I like to take pictures of mine in baskets too. I often take baskets out to the garden to pick the produce anyway (on years when I have produce to pick).
ReplyDeleteI too love the shape of the Zapotec Pleated. How does it taste, would you show a cross section in your next Harvest Monday post?
ReplyDeleteI'll try to remember to post of photo showing the inside of Zapotec Pleated. So far I have only had one ripe fruit of this type, but there are more coming on. One thing I can tell you: it is hard to peel a fruit like that!
DeleteYour beans look great! The yellow one is one that didn't produce for me, but I grow lots of other pole and bush beans, and runner beans. The Italian yellow shrimp bean, Annelino Giallo, does really well for me and stays stringless to the fat bean stage. I'm starting to get lots of heirloom tomatoes now as well.
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