The biggest triumph of this past week was my zucchini harvest -- 6 big, beautiful zucchini!
I also picked 3 small red tomatoes and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Most of my tomato plants are looking good, despite the drought and horrible heat, but I noticed that one plant is producing tomatoes with really bad blossom end rot. My husband tried an organic calcium spray on them yesterday, so we'll see if it works.
Alas, my beans, which I had such high hopes for only a few weeks ago, are absolutely terrible. The heat has prevented them from producing, and all of the beautiful bean blossoms from a few weeks ago have withered away without producing many beans. The sum total of my bean harvest from five rows were a couple of handfuls.
And, finally, last but not least -- Swiss Chard! It has been the savior of this year's garden. Despite the heat and drought, my Chard plants have continued to produce nice weekly harvests.
Well, that's it for this week. Happy Harvest Monday everyone! For more great harvests, check out Daphne's Dandelions.
I guess I need to plant some chard. It seems to help garden totals wherever it is planted.
ReplyDeleteYour harvest looks good to me. :)
We grow heirloom varieties at Locust Grove's Heritage Vegetable Garden where I am a volunteer, I am looking forward to reading about your adventures and experiences and to compare notes.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fun place to volunteer!
DeleteYour zucchini are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteSorry about your beans, though! I would be heartbroken, too...I have so many beans growing right now, I wonder if I should worry about the heat? Ugh...
Oh, I'm fresh out of greens this year, so your chard is looking wonderful to me :-) Happy harvesting!
Tomatoes already! Even my earlies are far from ripe. Everything looks wonderful! What kind of zucchinis did you plant?
ReplyDeleteThe variety was called Strata d'Italia. I got it from Baker Creek.
DeleteLooking very nice. What variety of zuke is that? I don't remember one with stripes. Ah chard, faithful workhorse of the garden, produces 12 months of the year for me, stopping not for heat or cold!
ReplyDeleteThanks! The variety is Strata d'Italia from Baker Creek.
DeleteThat was a good harvest of zucchini this week and those tomatoes look delicious. Sorry the beans did so poorly with the heat. Hard to tell sometimes which plants will make it through stress and which will not.
ReplyDeleteYour zucchini look awesome. Nice mixture there.
ReplyDeleteChard is such a great plant- cold, heat, dry, wet - it just keeps on producing! Sorry your beans aren't doing well. Mine are being eaten by Japanese beetles.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see someone will have tomatoes this year. I am about to give up on mine!
ReplyDeleteThose zucchini look great, we are still waiting for ours, just a few more days. We have been dying in the heat in our area as well.
ReplyDeleteThose zukes are hands down the more gorgeous ones I've ever seen, what variety are there. I sympathise with the difficulties of gardening during a drought, isn't it nice that the chard never seems to let you down. I too am a history buff (and teacher) so I'm thrilled to have found you blog.
ReplyDeleteThey are Strata d'Italia. I tried a different heirloom variety last year, but the yield was pretty terrible. I've already gotten double the zucchini I did last year, and the plants have shown no sign of stopping. So I'm pretty happy so far with them! Glad to hear you love history too!
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