New This Week: August Week 1

This has been another VERY bountiful week. (I'm getting very good at coming up with things to do with eggplant at this point!

Here are a few snapshot's from the haul... (Clockwise)

• Carrots round two. This batch as a whole wasn't as big as the ones from last week, but still very yummy!
• 5 giant black beauty eggplants, some banana peppers, bell peppers, okra, and a couple more zucchini. (Austin was over this weekend and we made a batch of zucchini bread which was a huge hit!)
• A huge bowl of the chocolate cherry tomatoes. Probably a good 3 POUNDS worth. Half of these we shared with Jason's sister.
• Over 15 Pounds of tomatoes!!! Jason pureed the Romas and froze them so he can make some homemade sauce later on. We gave some away, and cooked up almost all of the rest.

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Weekly Update: July Week 4

I got so wrapped up in trying to get everything done before the rain I forgot to take a picture of the week's harvest before splitting it all up and handing it out to random neighbors, Jo, and whoever else would eat it.... another pound or so of beans, 4 more big eggplants, a couple smaller eggplants, half dozen bell peppers, a dozen jalapenos, 8 tomatoes, 2 and a half pounds of carrots, and a ton of the chocolate cherry tomatoes... yeah... a TON! (Jason is still amazed that there are only two plants and they grew from single tiny seeds!)

A few fun sights from around the garden this week:

FROM LEFT: One of the sweet red pepper plants LOADED with huge peppers... I can't wait for these guys to ripen up and throw them on the grill! The other plant is just as loaded. Some of these are about 8 inches long. CENTER: one of the beautiful okra blooms. The flowers are just amazing. I'd almost grow the plant for just the blooms alone. Did I mention that the okra plants in the the right bed are now almost 5' tall??? RIGHT: The horticultural mysteries continue... a two-legged carrot?? You can imagine the surprise when I pulled this guy up! The main root is about 6" long.

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