Harvest from the week

Harvests continue to come in pretty good, and available space in the freezer for them becomes less and less these days. Maybe my parents have some extra room in their freezer, because if not we'll be giving lots of stuff away later...
Anyway, here's some pictures of a few harvests - although there were actually more from the week.

Photo below - here's several different varieties of tomatoes (some ripe, some not) consisting of cherokee purple, red siberian, stupice, giant oxheart, and brandywine. The cherokee purple are always easiest to pick out of the bunch, because the green tops are a dead giveaway at this stage of ripeness. The little red tomato at the bottom/left has a little appendage protruding from it, and was quite unexpected. Ha!

Photo below - more squash, and if the plants were to suddenly die at this point, i'd probably be elated. Heh. Oh well, i'll probably leave them until powdery mildew sets in, then replace them with some beans that granny and dan shared this year....

Photo below - A few late-arriving Santa Rosa plums that were untouched by the plum curculio. Oh, they're good - they're really, really good....Me and the wife have been snacking on them for days, and feel quite lucky to even have these few for the year. However, next year will be unmatched by previous years, because Imidan will provide me the resource needed for a relentless shock and awe campaign on the plum curculio...hehe.....

Here's another harvest of tomatoes and squash, and for the record I always pull tomatoes from the vine when blushing has begun. They'll ripen just as nicely on the kitchen windowsill, and also be protected from any bugs that might otherwise damage the fruit if left to ripen on the vine...

In other news, more melons continue to be supported by knee highs, and in all there are around 12 or 13 currently being supported in the garden. Visitors to the garden during this time of year are always a treat, because most see the melons and think "what the?" Haha....A nice honeydew is plumping up nicely too, and these were grown for the wife, of course.
Speaking of the wife, she took some of the blueberries that were harvested and made some really good muffins from them on Saturday...mmm...

Take care and happy gardening

EG