Friday, August 16, 2013

Regularity in the harvest - tomatoes, beans, peppers, and ground cherries

After the kids were in bed, I headed out to the plot to harvest.  It'd been a few days and given the blush on tomatoes the last time I was there, I knew there'd be something to pick.

We ended up with 17 red tomatoes, 2 bell peppers, 7 cayenne peppers, a fair number of beans (enough to fill a sandwich bag 3/4), and a bunch of ground cherries.  The green tomatoes were found on the ground where a falling tomato plant (I need to find better ways to string them up) caused some to come off the vine.  The bell peppers are approx 2.5" across and 3" long.  Nothing large by grocery-store comparisons, but as I'd mentioned before, they're the largest we've managed since we first got a plot 5 years ago.
I need to water.  I would have done it last night, but there wasn't enough time by the time I got out there to do that and prevent fungus growth.  Having said that, it's been dry enough that that might not have been an issue.

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