Monday, September 1, 2014

Harvest Monday Labor Day Edition





This week, I harvested the last of my tomatoes and pulled the plants. They had wilt in a bad way and I found a tomato hornworm on the plant when I pulled it. (yuck.)

I am starting to harvest more okra than I was. I guess it is coming into its own. The plants look really good and healthy. The okra makes me so happy!

Every day I harvested some okra.  Every day I also harvested Lima beans, Mississippi Cream peas, and Ruth Bible beans.

This week, the local news was talking about sweet potato harvests in town, so I harvested my sweet potatoes. They looked really good. I don't know how many I should have gotten out of the number of slips I planted, but I feel pretty happy with the harvest. That bucket was pretty heavy and the sweet potatoes in the photo with the tomatoes are not the same sweet potatoes. I put them on the picnic table to start curing them. And then I brought them into the garage to finish curing. It was about 24 big sweet potatoes and quite a few more little bitty ones.

I am linking up with Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Mondays. Go on over and see what everybody else is harvesting!
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  1. David VeltenSeptember 1, 2014 at 8:55 AM

    That is a nice haul of sweet potatoes. I would be happy with that.

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  2. Daphne GouldSeptember 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM

    Lovely sweet potatoes. I really wish I could harvest mine now, but with our season we wait as long as possible. I usually harvest them at the end of September. I've really missed eating sweet potatoes.

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    1. CristySeptember 1, 2014 at 1:30 PM

      Thanks. I really didn't know anything about growing sweet potatoes. I don't even know if I harvested them at the right time.

      My neighbor had told me that I could scrabble around under the plants and pull a few to check on them. I did that and got 3 big ones a few weeks ago. I cured them and we ate those last night. They were, Oh, so good.

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  3. Dave @ HappyAcresSeptember 1, 2014 at 10:25 AM

    Yay for sweet potatoes! I'll wait until sometime in October here to dig ours. Your okra is a valuable commodity. They were wanting $3 at a local farmers market for a pint!

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    1. CristySeptember 1, 2014 at 1:26 PM

      I found out that they want $3 for okra here, too. Since mine were growing so well, I didn't know that others were having trouble, but it seems that most of the okra around here didn't produce. We sure are enjoying it. :)

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  4. Thomas GenerazioSeptember 1, 2014 at 12:56 PM

    Nice harvest. I've never grown okra before. But then again, I'm not blessed to be growing in Zone 8. :) The sweet potatoes look great too.

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    1. CristySeptember 1, 2014 at 1:27 PM

      Okra is one of the few things I can grow here when it gets to 90 or 100 degrees with 100 percent humidity. And the family really likes it so it's a win. :)

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  5. MargaretSeptember 2, 2014 at 10:55 AM

    Those sweet potatoes are gorgeous. Another crop that I must try at some point, although I'm the only one in my family that eats them...but that's never stopped me from growing something before ;) My tomato plants are going downhill too - not sure how much longer they will last.

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    1. CristySeptember 16, 2014 at 6:35 AM

      Margaret, you should try them. They were really easy to grow.

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  6. BLD in MTSeptember 15, 2014 at 3:27 PM

    Wow. Homegrown sweet potatoes. That is a treat I've never had. Good harvest, Cristy!

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