by A.J. Coltrane
Previous post here. September 14, 2014 here (includes a 35 pound day). September 15, 2013 here.
Late in the week we had a couple of days approaching 80 degrees. This morning I harvested vegetables in a light drizzle, which is more normal for this time of year. The forecast for at least the next seven days calls for rain and highs in the mid-60’s. Likely we’ll see cloudy and mid-60’s for the remainder of the month.
19.9 pounds of produce for the week. 18.3 pounds of that was harvested this morning. (Note that I’m only weighing the produce from the EarthBoxes. Everything else is an easy bonus.)
Today’s harvest:
Closeup 1. The peppers — ( [L-R] from top left – Anaheim, deformed Lipstick, Yellow Bell. [L-R] from Bottom Left – Carmen, Iko Iko, NuMex, Jalapeno.)
Closeup 2. Tomatillos. The tomatillo plants are really winding down, so I pulled the “most ready” fruits — about half of the remaining total.
Closeup 3. Tomatoes — (L-R) Sun Gold, Sweet Million, Oregon Spring, Taxi, Black Krim, Tigerella
Closeup 4. More Tomatoes — Romas, Cosmonaut Volkov. It’s about time the Volkov did something.
An overview:
We planted garlic about two weeks ago:
Some of the radishes are ready for harvest (French Breakfast, Cherry Bell, Dragon):
The “2015 Tomato Race” totals. (One plant of each. 122 pounds total.)
| Type | Weight (lbs) | Weight (g) |
| Taxi | 21.7 | 9856 |
| Black Krim | 20.2 | 9175 |
| Roma | 17.1 | 7764 |
| Oregon Spring | 16.7 | 7571 |
| Cos. Volkov | 13.6 | 6185 |
| Sun Gold | 12.6 | 5717 |
| Tigerella | 12.2 | 5558 |
| Sweet Million | 7.9 | 3601 |
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2013 total weight to date: 138.1 pounds
2014 total weight to date: 164.1 pounds
2015 total weight to date: 246.5 pounds
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Visit Daphne’s Dandelions, host of Harvest Monday.
FlatbreadGarden 
Beautiful (and bountiful!) harvests still. My tomatoes are quickly coming to an end – I’ll be lucky if I get another week or two out of the plants.
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Lovely harvests again this week. I’ve got a while before I’ll be planting garlic. Around here our fall frosts come pretty late.
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We planted the garlic about the same time last year, I think. (Or maybe mid-October.) All I can find on the blog is that we planted “a few weeks before” November 11. We got a bunch of smallish heads, though I thought that could have been because we pulled them too early.
We’ll see what happens. Our winters are fairly mild, so hopefully it’ll work out. I figured I was doing a *good* thing by giving it a head start..
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