Sun 19 Jul 2009
Vegetable Garden #3: A Four-Day Harvest
Posted by Bob under Vegetable Garden
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This past Tuesday I did a pretty complete harvest in the garden and took a good-sized basket to Monika, who has been tending the house in Cherry Hill. I returned yesterday and what you see above is what became harvest-ready in the four days I was away. It comes to 34 pounds overall and includes Early Girl tomatoes; six varieties of summer squash (Costata Romano, Dark Green, Ambassador, Golden Zucchini, Scallop, Lemon); pole beans (Kentucky Wonder and Emerite); bush beans (Royal Burgundy); four varieties of cucumber (White Wonder, Marketmore 76, Poinset 76 and American slicing); two varieties of snap peas (Cascadia and Super Sugar), and plenty of basil for a batch of pesto.
Now of course the work begins to store much of this away for fall and winter…
That’s a lot of food! Looks like a very nice harvest.
Our farm is having an overload of zucchini right now. They recommend grating it up, squeezing out some of the liquid, and then freezing that for use in bread over the winter.
That’s what we’ve been doing, without having ever actually tried using frozen zucchini to make zucchini bread. So it’s good to have confirmation that it works! Hoping it will work for zucchini pancakes and zucchini timbale (Julia Child recipe) as well.
What a nice variety! I had no luck with royal burgundy beans. I think rabbits chewed the tops off very early. I did have a much better harvest of tomatoes this year. Bonnie Best, San Marzano, and Sweet Mellow Pink to name a few.
While we were away spending time in both Vermont and North Carolina, I asked two people from our community garden to harvest squash, beets, tomatoes, and cucumbers for delivery to our local food bank.
My son has zucchini from his garden. I am going to ask him to make a timbale.