Harvest Record 7/6-7/14

I'm sitting here, munching on a cucumber and listening to the rain fall. We've been needing it bad, and I'm so grateful for it! I hope our garden perks up from all this great H2O! One downfall from the rain is that one of the chickens seems to be unhappy about it. From what I gather, she's not sick or injured, just grumpy about the rain. Will and I gave her a look-over, and she seems fine, but we'll keep an eye out tomorrow when it's not raining to make sure she perks up after the rain, too.

• 7/6:
• boston pickling cucumbers: 15.1 oz (4 cukes)
• 7/7:
• bp cucumbers: 5.1 oz (1 cuke)
• chinese turnip (?): 3.4 oz 
• Will's dad was given seeds from one of his Chinese co-workers, who has limited English. We grew them, and they looked like a cross between a red globe radish and a purple top turnip. It also turned out that it was rotten on the inside, so we didn't get to taste it. Bummer.
• romaine lettuce: 8.9 oz (1 head) 
• Despite the heat, the lettuce is still doing fine, since it is well shaded under the cucumber plants. Some of its garden leaves are bitter, but that's to be expected. The chickens don't seem to mind these outer leaves.
• black radishes: 24 lbs.
• This group + the other already harvested black radishes got pickled and jarred up, making 9 pints of pickled radishes! Yum!
• 7/8:
• blue potato: 2.2 oz (1 potato) - test potato! 
• red potato: 1 oz (1 potato) - test potato!
• bp cucumbers: 1 lb 4.6 oz (6 cukes)
• fava bean: .7 oz (2 pods)
• Our fava beans were kind of pathetic this year, but we asked the farm-stand lady to ask her farmer his secret to big beautiful pods, so maybe we'll have better fava beans next year!
• rhubarb swiss chard: 1.4 oz
• 7/9: 
• beets: 5.4 oz (3 beets) - test beets!
• bp cucumbers: 14.3 oz (4 cukes)
• 7/10:
• bp cucumbers: 6.9 oz (3)
• 7/11:
• kale: 2.7 oz
• rhubarb swiss chard: 2.1 oz
• killarney red garlic: 3 oz (1 head) - test garlic! 
• Ready to come up! Just need a dry day where we're home!)
• 7/12:
• sad cucumbers: 6.8 oz (1 lemon & 2 bp)
• These cucumbers were the victim of a 'friend' with a tiny mouth. I suppose I will never know for sure who the culprit was, but it was most likely either the juvenile woodchuck or the baby bunny. I cried in the garden when I found these unfortunate veggies.
• 7/14:
• creole red garlic: 2.9 oz (2 heads) 
• The stalks on these heads were totally dead, but they made little heads anyway! I think we'll be the garlic king and queen from now on...
• romaine lettuce: 8.7 oz (1 head)
• One head of lettuce a week is perfect for our 2 person family! 
• rat-tail radish pods: .1 oz (3 pods)
• The pods are the edible part of the variety of radish, not the root. They are very prolific, but we wanted to test them out to make sure we didn't die or throw up upon consuming them. We had them in spring rolls, and I'm not dead yet!
• bp cucumbers: 13 oz (4)

Happy growing! <3