Mid August Harvest - Tomato Madness & the First Artichoke

I can't believe we are half way through the month of August already. The summer is just flying by now. Again this week, it was all about the tomatoes - 79.42 pounds to be exact. The harvest is approaching its peak and the vines still look relatively healthy. Does that mean we'll have loads of tomatoes well into the fall?

Not to bore everyone at this point but here is a look at some of the tomatoes we picked this week:


Top left - the first San Remo Paste Tomatoes, the seeds of which were given to me by my blogging friend, Winnie.




Bottom left - the first Anahue tomatoes (again from Winnie).


Top - Beautiful and tasty Black from Tula tomatoes. Also, I harvested a second round of Pepperoncini to make more pickles. We went through the first batch in a matter of days. They are so unbelievable tasty. I will definitely have to grow more next year.


The cherry tomato vines are exploding with ripe fruit now. Here is a mix of Sungold, Isis Candy, Black Cherry, Dr. Carolyn, Green Grape, Komahana and Couer di Pigeon Juane.


Luckily, we're harvesting a few things besides tomatoes as well.


I bit the bullet and picked the first Sugar Baby watermelon of the year. (Results tomorrow!)


The first Artichoke and Aunt Ruby's German Green tomato. The artichoke was REALLY tasty! Hopefully we will get a few more before the first frost hits.


I also picked the first Charantais melon of the season.


Finally, I harvested loads of celery in order to free up more garden space for fall veggies. I was going to grow Chinese celery this fall but at this point, I think we'll have enough for the winter.

This week's harvest numbers:

Tomatoes - 79.42 lb

Calabash gourd - 7.32 lb

Artichoke - 0.32 lb

Cucumbers (11) - 5.09 lb

Celery - 5.87 lb

Sugar Baby watermelon - 6.63 lb

Charantais melon - 3.20 lb

Peppers - 1.39 lb

Corn - 0.82 lb

Beans - 0.08 ib

Ground Cherry - 0.15 lb

Total harvest this week - 110.29 lb