Picking Enough Roma Tomatoes for More Home Made Sauce

Today I had plenty of tomatoes to be picked.  This doesn't mean just Roma tomatoes which will be used for making sauce, but I also had many cherry tomatoes and steakhouse tomatoes that were ready for harvesting.  One cherry tomato plant is done for the season and was no longer producing any more leaves or even flowers.  I only have three more left which should provide me enough to last at least a month hopefully.

Here are my steakhouse tomatoes which are best used for slicing and placing on sandwiches or just eating as is.  This is probably the biggest harvest of these types of tomatoes this season.  They are quite a good size and still good enough for slicing.







Some more pole beans were harvested this afternoon and this will probably be the last post about these beans for the season.  They lasted not as long as usual, but I still got enough out of them to be proud of.  I didn't want to forget mentioning a couple more peppers were finished ripening on the plant.

Getting the First Two Eggplants Picked Today

One of the first vegetables to be picked today were my eggplants.  They seemed okay to be picked and I could have left them on the plant, but since they were no longer growing I didn't want them to begin to decay and start getting soft and mushy.  That is why I decided to pick them today and both of them had been on the plant for over a month.

Along with eggplants I did pick some cherry and Roma tomatoes.  I only got three Romas today, but the good news is that there are plenty of them on the plants.  I see very large ones that I can't wait to pick once they turn ripe and red.  Once I pick enough I can then work on making tomato sauce which is something I like to do with these tomatoes.  I got another 73 cherry tomatoes today too.

One last vegetable I want to discuss are my peppers that I picked today.  They were quite big and definitely a good size that I can use in any meal that I would like.  The larger the pepper the better which also goes for most vegetables and fruits in the garden.

Here Come the Eggplant Harvests

Finally I have picked the first of my eggplants this week.  I actually began picking this afternoon because it was nice weather especially after the rain storms we got yesterday.  I would admit that we definitely needed the rain because we were in a small drought.  The rain was definitely a relief especially for much of my garden and plants.

Two eggplants were the final total for today, but there are still some on other plants that I will pick at a later date.  For now I have only two, but this is enough to make a good meal out of them.  I am not sure when the others will be done, but I am sure that it won't be tomorrow and most likely next week is what I am aiming for hopefully.  Check out the eggplants I got below.

Eggplants were not the only thing that was ripe enough to pick because I had beans, peppers, and cucumbers that needed to be harvested.  My peppers were definitely in need of picking because many of them were actually staring to turn red.  I like to pick them just before they overripe because this is as big as they will get.  I did end up getting a bright red one along with some green as well.

Beans are a hot item in the garden and with their incredible ability to produce flowers quickly they are still growing and I have plenty of more harvests to come.  Even though I picked quite a bit this evening I saw that there were many more to come.  Some were real small while others were almost ripe, but not quite ready to be picked.  Hopefully I will do another harvest soon.

Cucumbers are the one plant that is doing quite well although some of the plants are done for the season because they are brown and are pretty much dead.  I still have three to five plants left that are giving me more cucumbers to harvest.  I picked five today and have a couple more outside that I will harvest soon.  There are real tiny ones on a few of the plants that I am hoping will be pollinated so I can have more of them to pick.  Cucumbers I can easily make into a sweet relish.