The Sept 3 Harvest by Novice Gardeners

Here's another picture
of what we grew in our
first-year garden. We
picked this past
September 3 2008
from our little
backyard grocery.


At the top are three white scallop squash. Obviously the two smaller are the ideal size - we didn't notice the bigger until too late. However, after our first free in October, we found an even bigger one that we'd missed. Not very tasty, even baked. No, these are best harvested a couple of inches in size, and eaten raw.



Then there are our carrots - we planted so many different kinds that we're not sure what these were. Very sweet and tasty. Washed the dirt off and ate raw. Freshly harvested carrots don't last in our house very long. We planted and harvested atomic red, cosmic purple, orange Danvers 126 half long, and a cremey white carrot that we can't remember details about. We plan on sowing seeds for red, orange, purple, yellow and white carrots in 2009 - lots of each.



The one long cucumber in the picture is a Boston Pickling. The big tomato is a Big Striped Rainbow (slicer - sweet), and there's a lot of other various tomatoes in the colander. The odd-shaped yellow squash was a result of cross-pollination, but dehydrated well.



We love talking about our garden - even if all the plants are dead and the harvests are preserved now. Don't you?