Sunday, August 2, 2009

Garden Harvest!

Despite all the garden pests and oppressive heat we experienced this year we had some good success. Produce listed in order of greatest success to least: Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, Peppers, Onion, Okra, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Lettuce, beets, Potatoes.

Marginal: Pumpkin, Cabbage, Green Beans, Strawberries, Sunflowers.

Failures: Watermelons, Corn, Peas.

We made a batch of delicious Salsa with some of the Maters and Peppers. We juiced the largest Cantaloupes and froze the juice for latter consumption. You can see that the largest Cantaloupe was 16.5 lbs, the next was 12.5 lbs and the last was 8lbs. We also had a 5 lbs one not shown.

We had trouble fitting them into the fridge.

Below are some of what we got to eat!

1 comment:

Mrs. Wallace said...

Those are the biggest cantelopes I've ever seen! I love cantelope juice straight from the juicer, it's so good! We don't have a garden yet, I'm nervous about the heat killing it off. We start gardening in December though, so we'll see.