Tomatoes harvest & hundreds of tomatoes ripening

[Cassie K]

The greens are in their final stages. After several months, the remaining leaves are bitter and have bug markings. This video here is from one of my last lettuce harvests.

The tomatoes and cucumbers are fruiting. Seems odd to grow lettuce for months without using your own cucumbers and tomatoes, then when your tomatoes and cucumbers do come on, the greens are already dying out!

Well, I will be sowing new lettuce, kale, and spinach seed in the upcoming days. The greens will take less than a month for me to harvest them again, and I will still be harvesting tomatoes and cucumbers by that point--so I will be making many salads with all my own ingredients (with the exception of avocado).

After several weeks without rain, many of the plants stalled. Although I watered my pepper, sweet potato, and melon plants everyday-- my squash, cucumber, tomatoes, corn, and beans did not get rain for weeks. Last night was soaking rain shower, and it had been awhile since we had one of those-- so my tomatoes and many other fruits may have started fruiting or ripening much sooner.

The yellow squash have been producing as well. The peppers and cucumbers are putting off but slow growing.

First of the yellow squash





Celebrity variety, pinkish color

Celebrity variety


Rutger variety

I actually documented the Tomato garden in the video here, called "Tomato Army". Check out the other garden tour videos: garden 2 of 4 and garden 3 of 4.
On a final note, be on the look out for more posts on garden harvests. Within the next 7-14 days, I will be harvesting pounds of free food from the garden.

Original post @ Tomatoes Harvest & Hundreds of tomatoes ripening from Vegans Living Off the Land

 

[claudine]

Harvesting delicious fruits and vegetables is one of the best parts of gardening, isn't it?
I grow tomatoes too They're my favorite fruits! I'll never have enough of them.
Your yellow squash looks really great!

 

[Cassie K]

Here are the first tomatoes to be harvested from the garden. Considering I planted nearly 200 Tomato plants last year and received over 200 lbs of tomatoes, this year I expect over 300 lbs of tomatoes from the 300 Tomato Plants we have growing.

 

[zigs]

Looking good Cassie Mine are still green, bit behind this year.

 

[Cassie K]

Looking good Cassie Mine are still green, bit behind this year.

thank you , good luck to yours

 

[claudine]

The more tomatoes, the better! In my opinion they're the most delicious fruits in the whole world, I'm addicted to them. Your tomatoes look very big and healthy, Cassie K. From what I see in the picture, your dog likes them too

 

[zigs]

Took a load of side shoots off mine yesterday and planted them as cuttings, all a bit droopy this morning, have to see if they pick up.

 

[headfullofbees]

Took a load of side shoots off mine yesterday and planted them as cuttings, all a bit droopy this morning, have to see if they pick up.

I did that with cukes; that's why I've got so may.

 

[zigs]

Ahh, didn't realise you could do that with cucurbits, could do a bit of gurrila gardening with giant pumpkin plants suddenly appearing on roundabouts

 

[headfullofbees]

I picked 44 full-size shirley tomatoes and 85 cherry tomatoes yesterday.

 

[zigs]

Nice one Bees

I got 2 red ones and the veg show is in a week

All the cuttings took though

 

[Pat]

Your harvest sounds good and looks delicous. How often can you start lettuce during the planting season?

 

[headfullofbees]

Most plant a few every two weeks

 

[Whitewolf2578]

Looks pretty good on the tomatoes, I am having a bit of a problem with my tomatoes, they have grown big, but you would think I would be getting tons of tomatoes.