Harvest Taskmaster

The school calendar may say it's Fall, but the garden thinks it's still Summer (so does the sun).  Our harvest is coming in hard and strong.

The roma tomatoes are just starting.  This full bucket was today's harvest.  We'll wash them, cook them down, run them through a food mill, and have amazing sauce.

Our green beans didn't do well this year.  They didn't come up that great and we didn't replant.  We probably have about 12 feet of row whereas last year we had about 75 feet.  The difference in the freezer this winter will be obvious.

We went about a week without picking zucchini and they went crazy.  Those are baseball bat sized!  And our freezer is already pretty full of zucchini.  I think we'll make "Stuffed Zucchini" tonight from my favorite cookbook, Simply in Season.  The chickens will probably get some too.

Our sweet corn has hit the end.  We've had corn on the cow for dinner for a few weeks, but last night it started tasting starchy.  We harvested the last of it for the freezer, and then down came the stalks for the cows.  Corn is just a giant grass and cows love it. 

Christina & Sunflower quickly abandoned their hay and came running.  It didn't take long for them to strip off the leaves and start in on the stalks. 

The morning work in the garden didn't take long, but now our day is full — cutting corn off the cobs, cooking tomatoes down to sauce, grating zucchini, and snapping green beans.  Harvest is a taskmaster.