Tracking the Harvest: Sept. and Oct.
No, the baby cauliflower isn’t part of the Sept. and Oct. harvest tally – it’s for this month or the next, but I am soooo happy to see it!
The fall veggies are trickling into the kitchen – it’s a slow but steady pace. We are having some of our broccoli with tonight’s supper, but we’re having some of the last of the pepper harvest, too.
The harvest-tally confirms that October is our big transition month, when the garden slows its production of the warm-weather veggies, and the cool weather veggies begin to appear on our plates. It always seems like such a slow change, but once autumn truly arrives, it’s a wonderful thing!
Tucked away for the winter, we have plenty of dried cowpeas, dehydrated peppers, tomatoes, and blueberries, and smaller amounts of dehydrated squash and okra; there’s a basket of sweet potatoes on the floor in the kitchen; we have some canned green beans (put up before the house was smashed by the tree); a batch of blackberry jam; and a big basket of home-canned goodies given to us by a very good friend as a house-warming gift when we were able to move back in. The near-future of our meals is looking very local!
Our last couple of months of meals have had a significant, from-our-yard element, too. Here is what we brought in from the yard in the last two months. As usual, the weights are recorded in kilograms:
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Tomatoes, ripe
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6
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Peppers
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4.95
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Southern peas
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1.75
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Eggplants
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0.75
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Bush beans, green
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2.05
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radishes
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0.2
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Tomatoes, ripe
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1.5
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Bush beans, green
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0.85
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radishes
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0.3
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Southern peas
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0.4
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Peppers
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3.9
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Potatoes, sweet
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9.8
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Bok Choy
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0.7
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Lettuce
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0.5
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Broccoli
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0.4
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Home gardening can provide a lot of good food for families and communities. It’s also some work, but I love it. This blog is about the garden and yard where I “grow my own,” NW of Atlanta, Georgia.
2012-11-06 04:21:28
Source: http://atlantaveggies.blogspot.com/2012/11/tracking-harvest-sept-and-oct.html
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