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Harvest Monday, 30 June 2014 My fruit continues to dribble in. This is the first year for the currents. I'm not so sure I'm in love with them. The taste is fine, but the seeds are hard to just eat. Raspberry seeds are annoying too, but not nearly as bad. I've learned to chew them without putting my teeth together so they don't get stuck. But current seeds are huge in comparison. Way too big for me to want to eat them with pleasure. So I think I'm going to collect and freeze them and deseed them all at once. What about the rest of you. Do you eat currents out of hand or do you seed your currents? The vegetable harvests have been nice and varied this week. No huge piles of one thing that I need to deal with thank goodness. I pick peas every few days and give half of them to my townhouse mates. I tried freezing them again last year, but didn't like them frozen. So I'll just share. That way we can all enjoy them to their fullest. Frozen snap peas taste good, but I've never been able to get the texture to something that I want to eat. I suppose I could puree them for soups or something, but it isn't worth the bother when they are so good fresh. I picked my first ever fennel. I like it well enough. It may end up being one of those things I fall in love with over time. Like snap peas and broccoli. Or it may be one of those things I enjoy occasionally, like kohlrabi. Time will tell. And speaking of kohlrabi. I picked the last one this week. They keep pretty well in the fridge, but I suspect they will all be gone in a couple of weeks. They make really good finger food. And the first of the favas are in. I don't think I'll have anywhere near the harvest of last year. But hopefully it will be decent. And the first broccoli was picked yesterday. It was 18oz, so just over a pound. I ate half last night for dinner and half tonight. I'm neglecting the other veggies in favor of it. The first broccoli is always such a treat.

And this was the week I went over 100 pounds. Whoohoo! I checked how I was doing compared to previous years. I'm just a touch down from last year and just a touch up from 2011. 2012 wasn't really comparable because of the unheard of lack of winter that year and unfrozen soil in February (really in decades gardening around here, I've never had my soil unfrozen then). So I seem to be doing pretty much normally. Except for the late spring start this year I've been very happy with all the vegetables I've been pulling out of the garden. The fruit is another matter. I need to rotate the strawberries more. But I really don't have a great way of doing it. I'll see how they do next year, but I might have to give up a vegetable bed if I want to keep producing them. Then I could rotate. And I've fixed the raspberry watering problem, but it will take some time for them to recover.

Posted by Daphne Gould at 8:00 AM Labels: Harvest Monday, Yearly Tally
