Over 20 pounds of produce picked today!

Was joined at the garden today by Sandy, Trish, Brett, and Susan, who was on her way back to Connecticut. In addition to what is pictured here, add into the mix 3 more large heirloom tomatoes, 2 more large cucumbers, and 1 more eggplant.

Since it rained 0.7" on Friday, there was nothing to do at the garden today other than pick some veggies.

This blog will now be read in the Connecticut culinary gourmet community--thanks to Susan--and enjoy the fresh veggies!


Here are the new totals:
Cucumbers: 125
Large tomatoes: 53
Zucchinis: 32
Eggplants: 8

And here are the same veggies pictured above, but split into 2 bins for take home.

Each of these bins weighed in at aproximately 10 pounds!

Easy to say we picked over 20 pounds of veggies from the garden today!

My garden assistant Sandy and I also decided to direct our growing efforts more toward the heirloom tomatoes for the next garden. They also come in purple, orange, yellow, pink, and red beefsteak varieties. (See http://www.burpee.com/ for their heirloom collection) By growing the really big tomatoes, we'll be able to greatly expand our pounds of harvest. Plus, growing these one pound and more tomatoes is not something you normally see growing locally. Now that I know it can be done successfully, and without pesticides, I look forward to more of these amazing heirloom tomatoes down the road.

Here is a Brandy Boy heirloom that I sliced into for lunch today:

For the small cherry tomato choice, the clear winner is far and away still the Orange Sungold. Basically, garden candy. Will likely grow 2 or even 3 plants of these. Whatever cherry tomatoes are second best are a distant second, that is how good these are!

I'll be posting step by step instructions on what I do to grow tomatoes, especially the giant heirloom tomatoes on this Blog once the next growing season gets underway.