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.