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Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:36 pm

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Well it was a nice cool morning so after my husband went to work for a few hours we went out to the garden. We decided to pick every last large tomato and put it in the sun porch. With all the potential rain that we can get from Hannah, Ike and Josephine we decided it was better to just let them ripen in the house. So we picked and picked and then pulled out the empty plants.

When we were done picking the tomatoes and removing the plants my husband said.."is this zucchini ready to pick." So I went to look, I saw a small zucchini there, not quite ready to pick then looked under a leave and yellow " Holy S--T! Look at this." I pulled out two HUGE zucchinis. One weighed over 10 lbs! One was in the shape of a hook and the other a really long bat.

Here is Logan sitting on our car with the zucchini!



Here is Logan with the days harvest in beer boxes.



Here is a wheel barrow of the finished tomato plants.



We also found 2 other surprises, 2 more good sized pumpkins that will be great to carve next month! The other pumpkins are already turning orange and we will be picking them in the next couple weeks.







We still have some sunflowers hanging on.





And some sunflowers are coming to an end. They are all drying up but the little birds love them!






So now that all the tomatoes are done in the garden, where are they? They are on my sun porch which is the entrance to the house. The porch is getting a bit cramped!



I decided to go through the tomatoes and see what colors that I could find. Here is a rainbow of tomatoes.



My favorite color this year is the tangerine. They are all perfectly shaped and the color is gorgeous. I haven't eaten one yet, but may do for lunch today.



After emptying the garden yesterday the humidity really got bad so I decided to stay in. It started to rain so I decided it was time to make a batch of sweet pepper relish, cook down the tomatoes into sauce and make another batch of roasted salsa. It took all afternoon into night. I started at 1:30pm and didn't put the last sauce in the fridge until nearly 10pm! Everything came out great. I can't wait to use some of it. Missing from the picture below is the 2 1/2 quarts of sauce that I made. It was already in the freezer.



This morning when I woke up I used the smaller of the 2 zucchinis. I grated it up and got a little over 6 cups. I froze 4 cups and make a large bread. I also made a banana bread.

My mom and a couple of her friends are coming over today. I am making fried green tomatoes, fried egg plant as well as some fresh veggies etc. I can't wait to see how the fried green tomatoes come out.

I hope everyone is well and safe. I hope that Hurricane Ike misses all your southern stewies out there. My prayers are with you.


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toni wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:40 pm:

Wow, what a wonderful harvest.
Everything looks so good.
Logan could almost turn that large zuke into a stick horse and ride it around the yard.

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Frank wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:56 pm:

That's one massive zucchini GM!

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Droopy wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:41 pm:

I'm awestruck, not only by the zucchini but also by all your tomatoes and the pumpkins. Well done! How did that tomato taste, by the way?

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eileen wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:36 pm:

Oh my that zucchini is enormous and just look at all those tomatoes!!

The birds are going to love those sunflower seed heads - mine certainly do.

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Sjoerd wrote on Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:13 pm:

Wow. wow, and another, WOW! You did good, mate. just look ate your harvest and canning results. Supurb. That's the pay-off innit.
I think that one coul;d safely say that that huge zuc definately qualifies as a marrow.

Those tom roots in the wheel barrow look really good.
It did my heart good to see those flats of toms sitting about on those crates.

BTW...in that first pic--what are those red flowers in the distance--visible over the back of the man that's bending foreward? I like the look of that clump.

Well done on everything. You'll be busy for weeks 'n weeks.

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SongofJoy57 wrote on Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:47 am:

My goodness! What large zucchinis!!! Your tomatoes are lovely, and so are your jars of veggies. Sounds like you have a wonderful winter harvest to look forward to. Please share your zucchini bread recipe with us!

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