I'm joining Daphne in her Harvest Monday posts, although I'm not weighing anything. I'm afraid that if I actually weighed all the zucchini that I'm harvesting (from only 2 plants) that I might never grow it again. Pictured above is one picking of Pimento de Padron peppers. I can't pick too many of those, they are absolutely delicious. Next up you can see one picking of zucchini (with one that got away), a serpent cucumber, and some Guindilla peppers.
And then there's a couple more zucchini and about half a pound of purple (not) tomatillos. The tomatillos were made into salsa with the guindillas which were too spicy to eat as a tapa. The salsa was really good on top of pan roasted halibut.
And then yet more zucchini (shared with shift mates at the Aquarium), more Padrons (all for me), some Piracicaba broccoli sprouts, and caper buds.
Not pictured this week were another handful of Padrons, a couple of Donkey Ears sweet peppers (picked green, sauteed and put on top of pizza), numerous sprigs of basil, some extremely aphidy kale (for the chickens) and a couple more zucchini...Til next week... I gotta go pick the zucchini that should have been harvested yesterday.
LOL I can see that you are being drowned in zucchini. I would be grating a lot of it to freeze for the winter. I'm hoping to be able to start doing that soon.
ReplyDeleteWonderful harvest! We find that if we leave zucchini for another day at this time of the year they almost double in size! Do you use the flowers? They're good made into fritters.
ReplyDeleteChaiselongue, oh yes, they double in size for me also! I do love to use the flowers. On favorite recipe makes a pancake like tart with sliced zucchini, the blossoms and onions. I also like to stuff the blossoms with a ricotta mixture. I haven't tried frittering them yet...
ReplyDeleteGreat harvest, Michelle! I would love to hear more about your chickens sometime. Or maybe you have an old post that you could refer me to. I'm thinking about getting chickens, but I'm not sure about the regulations here is Seaside. Cheers, Jackie
ReplyDeleteSo I was browsing through a few of your old blog posts, and it suddenly occurred to me, what do you do with all this produce? Surely you can't be eating everything you grow yourself?
ReplyDeleteP.S. True curiosity, not a sneaky attempt at getting a care package sent my way!
Jackie, I haven't actually done a chicken post, yet. It's a joint venture with my neighbor. He has the coop on his property and we are sharing the work of taking care of them. They aren't quite old enough to produce eggs yet. We got the chicks at Hacienda Hay & Feed on Carmel Valley Road.
ReplyDeleteSusan, my husband and I do manage to eat most of what comes out of the garden. We're not big meat eaters so we eat lots of vegetables. The zucchini has been too prolific though, I've been sharing that with friends and neighbors. I also have a well stocked freezer and have been preserving and pickling. I've got a recipe for zucchini preserves that gets 5 pounds of zucchini into 2 1-pint jars. That helps - when I have time to do it.
That is alot of zucchini! Mine keep rotting, maybe ones of these days it will produce.
ReplyDeleteYum. I probably should have picked that zuke today. . .
ReplyDeleteThat's a great harvest, I can't come anywhere near that! Think I need to feed my courgettes as the leaves are yellowing a bit, so maybe that horse-poo that I found the other day will be transferred!
ReplyDeleteHi Dan, Yeah, It's way more zucchini than I anticipated.
ReplyDeleteStefaneener, wow, you better get out there right now and pick that before it turns into a huge monster!
Jan, Ooh horse poo, good stuff, but you need to be careful if it's fresh - you could burn your plants with too much nitrogen.