Harvest Photos from 8-23, 9-13, and 9-24

Potatoes harvested on 8-23-14

We harvested the last of our potatoes today.  Red, white, and blue.  Plus 3 more yellow that escaped the last harvest.  Hubby sprayed the soil off with the sprayer hooked to the hose and you can see the spots of skin missing on the Russet potatoes.  The skins are so soft on newly dug potatoes that you can rub the skins off with your hands.


Pictures of things from my harvest on 9-13-14

Orange bell peppers

and orange tomatoes.  These were used in my orange spaghetti sauce.  You can see pictures and get the recipe HERE.

We Be Little pumpkins.  The smallest one is in my hand.  The vine was dead, but the littlest one wasn't ready to harvest.  It is getting soft now (10-6-14).

Pulled a lot of the wandering onions. I left them outside on the patio overnight to dry.  They are one of the few things I can dig and leave outside and still find the next day after the squirrels have visited. They are now trimmed and in the refrigerator.


9-24-14 harvest

Three boxes of apples.  The birds were eating them and the tree didn't get sprayed with dormant oil last winter, so there are a lot of worm holes.

The fourth box of apples.  Pears and tomatoes.  The bright red in the left front section of the left blue tote are hot cherry peppers.

 The largest pears.  The one on the left is an Asian pear and the one on the right is a Bartlett.

The smallest pears.  I think these are both Asian.  The one on the right definitely is.

This is how I have been storing the orange tomatoes.  The are soft and I can't stack them in the drawer.  Two layers seem to be OK, but not three or more.