Harvest

[ksmith]

I picked a handful of Sweet 100s this morning, and managed to dig another red Roma out of the middle of the bush/vine. No sign yet that any of the Black Crim are ripening, but a few are getting pretty big.



The cilantro and parsley look horrid, brownish and weedy with leaves that just will not fill out. I don't know if they're too dry, too wet, or if the weather had something to do with it. They grew almost three feet tall, flowered, and are now covered with seed pods, but that's the extent of it. They look inedible.

Comments

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Usually when something like that happens it is severe unhappiness, probably weather based. At some point they just said, "EEEK! I cannot survive! I'll just make seeds so maybe next year it will be better".

It has been like that over here in Michigan as well. My pole beans are only 4 feet tall -- no beans. I may get some yellow pear tomatoes before the end of the season but I am not holding my breathe. The weather is just too cool.

[phantomminuet.livejournal.com]

Cilantro is notoriously finicky. If it ever gets above a certain temperature, it immediately goes to seed and stops producing nice, full leaves.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

The only good thing about cilantro going to seed is that you get to look for recipes using coriander seed. Nom, Indian food.

[dpeterfreund.livejournal.com]

my parsley is doing okay. My mint is a disaster -- I must be the only one on the planet who can't keep mint alive. The basil went to seed quick too. I hear now I could have prevented it by snipping hte buds. Oh well. too late now.

The cherry tomatoes look fantastic though. I'm drowning in them. But my squash is already going all powdery mildew, I've lost two fruits,a nd the zuchinnis never blossomed (or haven't yet, and probably won't before the mildew gets them too.)

The black crims are very large and still very green.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Do I just harvest the seeds in the fall? Dry them in the open? What do I do?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My squash and zucchini were disasters. I wound up with three squash--the rest mildewed. The zucchini never produced even a single fruit.