Today's harvest is *finally* a plate-full, this is an amount I can be satisfied with! (I was all pleased with the day's picking until I showed the bountiful plate to my husband, and he made a 'thats all?' comment or something to that effect and immediately crushed my momentary garden high.) Sheesh.
The potato bandit struck again..... 1 lb., 2 oz. of Red Gold and a single Keuka Gold spud,
just because I couldn't resist.
This here allium is a Bianca Di Maggio, which is a cipollini variety, i.e. SMALL. It clearly never got the memo at 3 inches in diameter.
HAPPY GARDENING!
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Congrats! Phooey on your hubby, it looks great! And you have blueberries, nice. I need to go to the local farm and pick but haven't wanted to in this humidity, mostly because the farms are in the swampland here and will be loaded with skeeters. I really like that size harvest, it's easy to cook with and doesn't stress you out with needing attention. That onion looks good, mine always bolt so fast and have those wide necks that won't cure right.
Is that what happens with the onions? They are not my thing, that has been proven time and time again. Onions in my garden exhibit no uniformity in size, which perplexes me. Different varieties in different beds, but same outcome.
I have not gone b-berry picking yet either. We were going to this morning, but rain was in the forecast. It is still on the early side up my way, but roadside stands are starting to put them out.
Those are from the lowbush berries, the highbush are still ripening (and being eaten by the birds). I hope you get out picking soon Erin!
Yes, the onions get "big necks", yours are exactly how they should look! They will dry nicely at the stalk for keeping that way. We only have highbush blueberries here, they are just starting to open for picking, but the farms have highbush varieties that will produce through August, so I can wait for a dry weekend (it's finally raining here today!) You are lucky to have the lowbush, those and the wild northern blueberries are superior in taste I think, but I like them tart, not too sweet.
I think the lowbush are the "wild" blueberries, native to Maine (and Michigan maybe)? I never see them in nurseries, but they are available through mail order.
the places I have seen them most prolific are Alaska and Northern Minnesota, they line the rocky shores of all the lakes, the wild ones are REALLY LOW, like 6 inches!
Lol, I knew it was one of those "M" states. There are different species of lowbush berries, they can vary from as low as you mentioned to under 2 feet. Many of the commercially cultivated lowbsuh/wild berry fields are burned every other year as a way to eliminate weed competition- maybe to make the rake method of harvesting easier? So 2 fields are maintained; one is harvested, the other burned and allowed to re-grow. (Who knew?? This is what I read about when suffering from insomnia.)
The source I ordered mine from only offers one variety. Can you grow them down your way I wonder?
Your veggies look very pretty on the plate. I am sure you enjoyed them, even if your husband didn't think it was much.
Hey Kel, has the foliage on your potted potatoes died back yet?
Harvest looks great to me. Small harvest are refreshing...means shorter time in the kitchen cleaning and putting things up. Your tomatoes look so healthy and that is a huge onion. Mine never get that big.
Thomas- The foliage on some has begun to die back, but most of them are still green.
Lorie- My onions don't usually get that big either, most of them are golf-ball size (when they should be bigger). Go figure!
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