Roots and Shoots: Harvest Monday

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Harvest Monday

Every Monday Daphne's Dandelions hosts Harvest Monday on her blog where she posts links to blogs of other gardeners who sent in their Monday harvest posts to her.

We got back from a weekend away on Monday afternoon, and after a patrol of the garden I had Big News and a harvest of a salad for my lunch today.

The Big News is that the mystery of the rotting zucchinis is solved. It was blossom rot that was causing them to ALL rot at a certain size. Thanks to the advice of a friendly farmer I talk with through work, I tried plucking off the blossoms from the ends of the zucchinis, and bada-bing bada-boom, suddenly the zucchinis have doubled in size and are not rotting at all!

And the harvest. Lots of lettuces, three kinds of heirloom tomato (Black Cherry, Marmande, and Peace Vine), coreless nantes carrots, gypsy sweet pepper and broccoli, I had my lunch today. A confession: I don't like the taste of all those mesculus. I think next year I will grow plain-flavoured ones and some arugula and maybe that's it. I'd like a red lettuce too for interesting colour. Any thoughts on a good one?

2 comments:

Daphne Gould said...: I'd never heard of blossom rot in zucchinis. I'll have to try cutting the flowers off when I have that issue.; 8:26 AM
Melz said...: Hooray! And that is gorgeous shot of your harvest.; 8:15 PM

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The Project

To grow my first vegetable garden in our yard in Nanaimo's old city for learning, healthy eating, and fun. For interest's sake I'll keep track of the economics; can this garden, made up of two 8x10 plots and some pots on the patio, produce at least $200 worth of food, which was the approximate cost of the soil, seeds and materials. (I know, I know, costs will be less over the years because I don't need to buy grow lights and pots every year, but just for the sake of this little experiment, lets set the bar high and shoot for $200).