today’s harvest

 
 
This is what I picked from the garden today. Lots of tomatoes. The blight is hitting my tomato plants hard now, so I picked all of the tomatoes that were anywhere near pink. I pulled off all of the blighted leaves from the plants. The stems are nearly bare now with a bunch of green tomatoes hanging, hoping to ripen. I went ahead and sprayed again with Copper fungicide, as I have been doing weekly, even though there wasn’t much there to spray. And I was surprised by finding a…
 
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edamame

 
 
I am starting to harvest my soybeans. They are still a bit small, but really really tasty. My sister couldn’t believe how good fresh edamame tastes. Soybeans all ripen at once, so I just pull up the whole plant then pick off the beans. I was impressed to see all the nitrogen-fixing nodules (rhizobia) on the roots.
 
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today’s harvest

 
 
Potatoes, peppers, summer squashes, broccoli, bok choy and cukes. And lots of green tomatoes underneath.
 
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harvest given away

 
 
This is my produce of the last few days. More than I can use. I hAd hoped to bring it to our local food pantry, but realized today that its only open every other Tuesday – not tomorrow. So I left these vegetables by the path to our Community Gardens. They were all gone when I checked back a few hours later. (yeah!!) I’m thinking about making a little table at the Gardens so we can leave our extra vegetable as donations in this location. (I’ll watch the curbside trash…
 
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onion harvest

 
 
I pulled these yesterday before the rain. The rain cleaned them for me. I’ll let them cure in the sun here a few days so they store well. Most are not as big as I hoped since I let the big volunteer squash grow in the middle of their bed.
 
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tomatoes!!

 
 
The “real” tomatoes are ripening! Ahh. Can’t beat this time of year. A couple weeks ago my mom sent me a fascinating article about how supermarket tomatoes lost their flavor. Turns our the green shoulders contain chlorophyll and work to make the tomato sweet as it ripens. The great supermarket tomato advance was to remove the green shoulders and produce a perfectly red tomato – with NO TASTE. Remarkable! Work linking tomato sweetness and green shoulders was published June 28, 2012 in the journal Science: How Tomatoes Lost their Taste.…
 
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beans sowed and picked

 
 
I planted some bush green beans today and calculated when they should be ready to pick. Maxibel (a French/filet bean), 50 days, expect to harvest around Sept 12 Jumbo (a flat Italian bean), 55 days, expect to harvest around Sept 17 These will be my last bean plantings as this harvest dates will be the end of bean season. I also sowed some dill seeds next to the beans. It was very old seed, so I hope it sprouts. Dill matures in 40-60 days. My purple bush beans, planted this…
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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