by A.J. Coltrane

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Both zucchini plants dropped below the Vickie Mendoza Diagonal this week.  The fruits have been molding on the vine, or in the case in the patty pans, falling off before they’re fully grown. I’d give the zucchini a “season grade” of “C” or “C-“, more on that in another post.

I cut out about 15% of the basil today as well — I figure it’s got a maximum of about three weeks before it’s done for the year. For the remaining tomatoes and peppers it’s now a race to ripen before the first frost.

Today was a good day for tomatoes. Pictured below is about six pounds, bringing the total for the week to ten pounds of them:

The Sun Golds “before”:

And “after”. I thinned out the leaves, especially in the interior, at least partly so I could see the fruits:

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I think I’m staying away from the word “harvest” for the same reason that I avoid the word “pizza” when making flatbreads — everybody has preconceived ideas as to what those words mean..

Anyhows, here’s yesterday’s colorful “harvest”.

The Tequila peppers got grilled and turned pale. Kind of a letdown. The tomatillos are going to become a green salsa really soon.

Bonus boy cat pic:

 

by A.J. Coltrane

Previous post here.

I think I’m staying away from the word “harvest” for the same reason that I avoid the word “pizza” when making flatbreads — everybody has preconceived ideas as to what those words mean..

Anyhows, here’s yesterday’s colorful “harvest”.

The Tequila peppers got grilled and turned pale. Kind of a letdown. The tomatillos are going to become a green salsa really soon.

Bonus boy cat pic:

 

by A.J. Coltrane

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A very productive week. I’d have to guess at least 15 pounds of stuff. The cucumbers, tomatoes, and basil are all in full swing. The midweek “harvest”:

The lemon cucumbers are going nuts. In a related note, the leaves are starting to look funky. My suspicion is that all of the plants are using their energy to produce fruit and they’re letting their leaves go south. I’m also going to guess that the leaves are going to look awful by the time the first frost rolls around. Here’s the “harvest” from Saturday — four days later. ((L-R) Lemon cucumber, bunch onion, Glacier, Sun Gold, Stupice):

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All photographs “borrowed”. Each link points to the seed/plant seller website where the photo was obtained, so nobody should get too uptight.

Tomato-

Brandywine

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by A.J. Coltrane

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I tried for some photos that were a little bit different this time. At the very least, there are some pictures of ripening fruits.

The sweet peppers are starting to ripen:

The bunch onions and marigolds. Bugs stay away from this box:

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by A.J. Coltrane

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We’ve now harvested almost 30 pounds of assorted veg since early June. Last week was a large amount of basil:

It took a while to clean all of that basil from the stems. Here’s what the plants looked like right afterward.

And  this week.  The current state of the basil plants:

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by A.J. Coltrane

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More nice weather = happy plants! All of the peppers are now fruiting. I think there’s going to be a deluge of tomatoes soon.

Today’s harvest:

The zucchini got some support to try to avoid a repeat of the breakage a few weeks ago:

If this flower is any indication, the mother of all zucchini is on the way:

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We did a thorough search of the plants last night, looking for anything that might ready. A.S. found these eight perfectly ripe tomotoes all grouped together towards the bottom of the Stupice. I had no idea that they were there.

But when outside to water this morning I thought maybe I’d lift some of the wayward cucumber vines into the trellis. I discovered this big guy. (Photographed with some of last night’s produce for reference.)

Holy cow. I don’t *think* we missed it last night, although I guess it’s possible. The other explanation would be that it went from the smaller size to THAT between 5:00 pm last night and 9:00 am this morning.

by A.J. Coltrane

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We did a thorough search of the plants last night, looking for anything that might ready. A.S. found these eight perfectly ripe tomotoes all grouped together towards the bottom of the Stupice. I had no idea that they were there.

But when outside to water this morning I thought maybe I’d lift some of the wayward cucumber vines into the trellis. I discovered this big guy. (Photographed with some of last night’s produce for reference.)

Holy cow. I don’t *think* we missed it last night, although I guess it’s possible. The other explanation would be that it went from the smaller size to THAT between 5:00 pm last night and 9:00 am this morning.