It Looks Like Plants are Starting to Produce Fruit for a Good Harvest

This is about the time that things are starting to happen and harvests will start to become common or at least once a week at the minimum.  Tomatoes will probably be the last to harvest not including my pumpkins which are always picked close to October as possible if at all.  Sometimes I have to pick my pumpkins much earlier because the plant is dead and the pumpkin can't grow or ripen anymore by being outside.  For now I am going to be focusing on vegetables that are ready or ripening right now.

 

The first new harvest for the season are my cucumbers.  I transplanted many vines this season and I also planted seeds directly in the soil as well so I have two batches of plants that I am hoping will produce many cucumbers for me.

 

I have already picked three so far this year and I am hoping to pick many more.  I have looked at the vines and I am seeing most of them with at least one or more female flowers and fruits that are getting bigger each day.  By the end of this month I hope to have at least a dozen cucumbers picked.

  Next up on the list would be my zucchini which have been growing for quite some time.  I would say around the fourth of July is when my plants began producing flowers and short after zucchini appeared on all three plants.  There are three plants, but four zucchinis that I will be picking very soon because they are large right now and only a little bit more time on the plant until it is ready to be picked and then cooked.  

My pole beans have been climbing with their vines and while this is happening they are starting to produce flowers along the way.  I think my beans might actually starting coming right after I start picking my first batch of corn.  Right now they have flowers that are opening, but no beans so far.  With the two plants that sprouted this season I am not looking to have a big harvest.

As I just mentioned my corn plants are coming through with the silks that is a sign that corn should be harvested in a couple of weeks.  This first time is a fast grower and doesn't take as long as my silver queen which I planted  in the other row.  This is the first time growing silver queen corn and I am looking forward to how it will come out this season.  Right now I will have to wait for them since they don't have any silks yet, but this early type does and should be harvesting in the near future.

Just Another Harvest of Eggplants

Another harvest eggplants was completed today and with four left I was deciding whether to just pick the rest of them to end the season for them.  Unfortunately one of them was still ripening and I didn't want to pull it prematurely.

Instead I just took three of them that were done for the year.  Now there is just one that is still on the plant ripening at this moment.  I might pick it sometime later in the week, but for now I will leave it there for at least a few days.

They weighed in at about four and a half pounds making them a little bit smaller than the last two, but still a pretty good size for any garden.  I am definitely happy with them especially when they started growing flowers late and were the last plants to be added to the garden soil.  I try to look at the positive things when it comes to gardening.

Pole beans are also the news for today although I didn't harvest any of them.  I was looking at them and I wasn't sure if I should pick them today or wait another day.  Since I picked three eggplants I decided to wait since many of them were not going to go to seed anytime soon.  Tomorrow I will pick some pole beans that are ready and hopefully I will get more than I did during the last harvest.

Here you can see more beans growing along with the flowers.

Just wanted to give you a quick update on my cabbage plants that are growing in the garden.  They are growing good because of the cooler temperatures that they love and thrive in.  Take a look at them and within a couple of months they should be ready for harvesting.