Some More Vegetables That Were Ready for Picking

Just some more vegetables that I had to pick this week because they were ready to be placed on the table and eaten.  For example before getting too tough to eat I need to make sure that I pick my ears of corn right away.  I don't like to eat tough corn and this year they have actually been quite good.  I am looking forward to next season by saving one ear to use as seeds.  That is still on the stalk and I won't pick it until October or when it is dry enough.

Exactly 21 ears were ready to be picked and eaten.  Although I did not eat all of them I still did cook them and placed them in the refrigerator where they can stay good enough for quite a while.

Again I also had beans which are going to be stored for use during the Winter time like I did last season.  They lasted quite a while and I still have a few left from last season's harvest because I had picked so many of them.  I don't think I picked as many this year, but I still got an average crop which will be stored.  Nine pounds came out this week so far.

Large peppers are always the best to pick, but not all the time are they going to be big.  This year most of the early plants have been producing large peppers which is really great.  I don't think I have ever grown peppers of this size before.  This season has been great for peppers and I am looking forward to pick even more of them.

Getting A Record Amount of Pole Beans This Season

Yesterday and today were very interesting days in the fact that I had to pick pole beans that I didn't think I had.  What I mean is that I didn't know that this many pole beans were in the garden.  I only planted a couple of rows in hopes of getting a decent harvest.

In hopes of getting pole beans I planted them a second time to make sure that I would get enough.  Even with all the thinning out that I did I still was able to get an incredible amount of beans.  Between today and yesterday I got over thirty pounds.  To be exact I got 25 yesterday and 8 today which comes out to 33 pounds of pole beans.

I had an idea that I would get quite a bit, but I didn't think that one row would fill up six containers quite easily.  That's right one row was able to fill up six large containers.  That is why I had to stop yesterday because I had ran out of large containers to use.  After hours of picking these beans I decided that it was best to finish it today.

That is exactly what I did this afternoon.  Finished off the second row and filled up on one container and got 8 pounds from them.  I will eventually have more to pick, but for the moment the plants can continue to grow and produce even more flowers.

I also gained some more Roma tomatoes as well this week.  I know it is harvest season and there will be many things to pick including melons, peppers, eggplants, and so much more.  I decided on picking some of the Roma tomatoes early and place them in the window to ripe so that I don't have to worry about them in the future.  They are just for some tomato sauce that I will use throughout the Winter.  Nothing special will come of them.  Since they are meaty fruits this is perfect use for them.

Some Roma tomatoes on the windowsill.

I ended up picking up some corn as well since it had been a few days since the last batch that I picked.  Many of them were starting to ripen real quick especially with all the sun that we have been getting this entire month of August.  I took a look at a few of them and finally picked about 17 of them today.

They are average in size and I can't complain about the amount of corn that I am getting on a consistent basis.  I would like to have them a little bit bigger, but they are a great size for the most part.  I will have to keep this in mind for next year and make sure that I do some things a little bit different in order for larger ears.