9/12/08: Pic Catchup: harvest pics

Ok - it's time to play "catch-up" with photos of our harvests. The most recent is on the top. Enjoy! Vikki (for the entire Williams family)

9/6/08: Two zucchini, a watermelon, 1 cucumber, a few carrots, a few radishes, 2 squaw-kini (cross between squash and zucchini), a handful of various tomatoes. Below the tomatoes in the white collander are all of the soy beans from our back soybean bed. In the blue collander, with the exception of the one white pod are string beans picked from our corn patch. We washed, dried, put in freezer baggies, labeled and froze for winter eating.

9/3/08: More white scallop squashes, an odd-shaped straightneck squash, a cucumber, another orange slicer (big rainbow), various tomatoes, and three beautiful carrots (don't remember if they are danvers half-long or nantes coreless). We pick one carrot per person because if I let Weslee pick them, he'd eat them all before Doug and I even saw them!

8/31/08: Another yummy white scallop squash, a red slicer tomato, a huge reddening jalapeno, a few regular sized jalapenos, a few radishes, 1 cucumber and various tomatoes. Dehydrated the tomatoes the next day as the freezer was getting full.

8/31/08: We picked our first corn a couple of days previous, then on this day picked 4 for our dinner. All except the third had good enough pollination for lots of kernels. The peppers were picked within the last few days and cut and washed in prep for freezing. Beautiful sheen.

8/28/08: We picked 2 eggplant, our first white bush scallop squash, several cucumbers, 2 jalapeno peppers, 2 Big Rainbow Striped Tomatoes (the big orange slicers), a squaw-kini (cross between squash and zucchini) and a lot of tasty tomatoes.

8/25/08: Great harvest today! Big zucchini, nice straightneck squash, 4 sweet bell peppers, a banana pepper, and various lovely tomatoes. Yum!

8/21/08: Lots of goodies! 4 red slicer tomatoes, couple of cucumbers, big handful of soybeans from the front yard, string beans from the corn patch, and various other tomatoes. I made a batch of sweet hawaiian bread in the machine and by the time I could take the pic, this was all that was left. The red dot on the bread was the one little strawberry we picked that day (Weslee gobbled that up!).

8/19/08: One plate and one pasta bowl of goodies! Plate: string beans from the corn patch, tomatoes and cucumbers. Bowl: We took three green bell peppers, one orange bell pepper, and a few tomatoes. That red slicer was red all the way through and juicy!

8/18/08: A wonderful watermelon that wasn't ripe enough, an eggplant, two banana peppers (one of which had started to turn purple - what does that mean??), couple of cucumbers, an okra (straight into the okra-freezer-baggy) and a variety of tasty tomatoes!

8/14/08: Here's 2 Straita d-italia zucchini, several cucumbers and beans, and a wonderful tasty variety of tomatoes. We pickled the cucumbers, the beans and 1 zuke were part of dinner, and the other zuke was grated and frozen for zucchini bread during the winter. (Ssssh, don't tell Weslee!)

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