Garden Harvest August 2014

[Cassie K]

The tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, beans, and melons continue to grow, and usually harvest from these daily or weekly.

The potatoes are finally ready to be harvested. James dug up a small patch for us to eat, and they were delicious with some of our beans and corn and some sliced tomatoes.



The second lettuce crop is not growing as quickly. The spinach isn't growing quickly either. I assume it has something to do with shading issues, but really there is a lot of sun that hits the garden throughout the day, and we have had a lot of rain in the last month since I planted them. At the rate the spinach and lettuce are going, I expect to harvest them in the next two to three weeks.

The kale is doing well but not quite ready to eat.

I also grew some broccoli in buckets--which I intended to transplant to the garden--but it seems the bugs ate every single broccoli (nearly 300 broccoli plants).



Below I have posted pictures of the tomato, squash, corn, pepper, and cucumber harvests...





08/25/14 squash, corn, cucumber harvest





08/05/14







08/07/14 tomato harvest





08/06/14 harvest





08/20/14 harvest

08/17/14 harvest





08/18/14 harvest





08/09/14 harvest





08/10/14 harvest





08/11/14 harvest





08/15/14 harvest





08/18/14 harvest





potato harvest 08/18/14





strawberries from the garden and random peach



cantaloupe harvest 08/20/14





cantaloupe harvest 08/18/14


Refer to last months garden harvest here Garden Harvest as of July 2014 to see the diversity of food each month.
Original Post @ Garden Harvest August 2014

-Cassie K, Vegans Living Off the Land

 

[claudine]

Cassie K, reading your posts about vegetables and fruits always makes me hungry. These tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, potatoes, strawberries and melons look beyond delicious.
You have a truly wonderful garden

 

[zigs]

Cor, fantastic

Is that the remains of Bordeaux mixture on the Tomatoes?

 

[helagumamela]

These look so delicious! I loved the cantaloupes and tomatoes! Aww I feel jealous. I wish that I have a garden as beautiful as yours. What do you do with all of your harvests? By the way, how can I grow kale?

 

[Cassie K]

Cor, fantastic

Is that the remains of Bordeaux mixture on the Tomatoes?

I have no idea what bordeaux mix is

 

[Cassie K]

These look so delicious! I loved the cantaloupes and tomatoes! Aww I feel jealous. I wish that I have a garden as beautiful as yours. What do you do with all of your harvests? By the way, how can I grow kale?

Thank you for your comment.
my partner and I are vegan so we eat literally everything in the garden fresh, raw, and ripe. of course we steam the potatoes.
Kale is really easy to grow, in fact it can be sown now before Frost. It will be a small harvest and the leaves will be quite small. Kale is more of a cool weather crop. It will grow in the worst soils, but it will grow large-and-in-charge if you add mulch and compost around the plants.

 

[helagumamela]

Thank you for your comment.
my partner and I are vegan so we eat literally everything in the garden fresh, raw, and ripe. of course we steam the potatoes.
Kale is really easy to grow, in fact it can be sown now before Frost. It will be a small harvest and the leaves will be quite small. Kale is more of a cool weather crop. It will grow in the worst soils, but it will grow large-and-in-charge if you add mulch and compost around the plants.

I see. It's just that I haven't seen kale here in the Philippines before. I visit seedling banks, but they don't have kale. That's why I was wondering if they grow from seeds. I want to grow this leafy green because I have read many articles online about its various health benefits.

 

[Cassie K]

I see. It's just that I haven't seen kale here in the Philippines before. I visit seedling banks, but they don't have kale. That's why I was wondering if they grow from seeds. I want to grow this leafy green because I have read many articles online about its various health benefits.

I always grow kale from seed.

 

[fruitloops]

I see. It's just that I haven't seen kale here in the Philippines before. I visit seedling banks, but they don't have kale. That's why I was wondering if they grow from seeds. I want to grow this leafy green because I have read many articles online about its various health benefits.

Kale is amazing! The curly kale is very crunchy. I don't know how cold it gets in the Philippines, but it tastes better after a frost so it won't be as sweet if it doesn't get cold weather.

Those cantaloupes look great Cassie K!