Eve of a Crop Killing Freeze: final harvest? 10/12/12

Harvest on the eve of the first freeze:
(Many tomatoes are not ripe yet!)
7 green Heirloom tomatoes
2 Hot Cherry Peppers
3 Green Marion Tomatoes
1 tiny Japanese eggplant
1 small sweet pepper
18 cherry tomatoes (green)
29 Juliet Tomatoes

Harvest 10/10/12 Last of the hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
5 Hot Peppers
2 Juliet Tomatoes
2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 Marion tomato
1 Big Boy tomato

Harvest before cold front 10/6/12

Today's Harvest:
3 cherry tomatoes
2 Juliet tomatoes
1 Japanese Eggplant
1 Sweet Pepper

Handful of Tomatoes! 10/3/12

Today's Harvest:
2 Cherry Tomatoes
4 Juliet Tomatoes

End of September and tomatoes still thriving!

Harvest 9/30/12

It's the last day of September and my garden is still producing! This year's garden has gone beyond my expectations!

Today's harvest:
1 Green Sweet Pepper
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 Juliet Tomato

Harvest 9/27/12

Today's Harvest:
2 Japanese Eggplants
2 Juliet Tomatoes
1 Cherry Tomato
1 Big Boy Tomato

More Tomatoes! Harvest 9/24/12

The tomato plants are still spitting out tomatoes but they're starting to look ragged, probably due to the chilly nights lately. The low temperature has been consistently in the lower 50's and upper 40's the last two weeks

Today's Harvest:
7 cherry tomatoes
4 Juliet tomatoes
1 Big Boy Tomato

Small harvest 9/20/12

Today's Harvest:
9 Cherry Tomatoes
3 Hot Peppers
1 Juliet Tomato

Windy Tomato Harvest 9/18/12

A tornado watch in effect with a wind advisory I decided to grab some tomatoes before the wind did!

Today's harvest:
2 Juliet tomatoes
13 cherry tomatoes

Tomato Harvest 9/17/12

Today's Harvest
1 Juliet tomato
1 Marion tomato
9 cherry tomatoes

Harvest 9/15/12

Today's Harvest:
1 Heirloom tomato
1 cucumber
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
5 Hot Peppers

Putting the cucumbers and tomatoes to use!

As a side to dinner I took some of my Juliet tomatoes & picklebush cucumbers, sliced them up and covered them in balsamic dressing! A delicious late summer side!

Harvest 9/11/12 still getting Tomatoes!

Today's harvest:
5 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
2 heirloom tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 hot pepper
1 cucumber

Premature Harvest before the storm! 9/8/12

With a tornado watch currently in effect I wanted to harvest some tomatoes from the garden even though they're not completely ripe yet! One tomato, the Marion one, is actually a weird shape and split a little.

Today's harvest:
1 cucumber
1 heirloom tomato
1 Marion tomato
6 Juliet tomatoes
3 cherry tomatoes

Large & colorful late season harvest! 9/7/12

Today's harvest was larger than I expected and very colorful! I got to pick another eggplant and harvested the first garden beans of the season! If you read back to some of my first posts, you'll see that I planted the beans late, add in the hot dry weather and they didn't do as well as other years.

Today's harvest:
1 Japanese eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 cucumber
4 Juliet Tomatoes
5 Cherry tomatoes
6 hot peppers
58 garden beans (small)

Small harvest 9/2/12

Harvest are continuing to get smaller but I'm also happy I'm still getting anything! Since the end if July I have been able to harvest something from my garden almost everyday if not every other day! I consider this an accomplishment, especially compared to past years!!

Today's Harvest:
1 cucumber
1 cherry tomato
1 heirloom tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes

Strange Cucumber harvest! 9/1/12

Today was a small harvest but then again it's already September and the garden is starting to slow down! I got some strange shaped cucumbers today but I'm pretty sure it's due to the inconsistent watering as of late.

Today's harvest:
1 heirloom tomato
2 Juliet tomatoes
2 cherry tomatoes
3 cucumbers

Small harvest 8/30/12 but First Red Hot Cherry Pepper!

Today's harvest was small but I got my first ripe red hot cherry pepper, which from a distance looks like a tomato! Peppers have done well this year too bad I didn't have more sweet peppers!

Today's harvest:
1 big boy tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes
3 hot peppers
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper

August 21, 2012 Harvest!

Today's Harvest:
1 small cucumber
5 Cherry Tomatoes (partially ripe)
4 Juliet Tomatoes (partially ripe)
1 Marion Tomato
14 Hot Peppers