What have you harvested in 2009?
I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That’s over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there’s going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks.
What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I’m planning to make pound cake on Friday and will top it with fresh strawberries and whipped cream for dessert. And I seem to recall a really good muffin/bread recipe I made a few times last year. Plus we’d love to make some strawberry wine with them…but I’m not sure if we’ll have enough. We still have about 2 kilos of strawberries in our freezer from last year and could always buy more – but we’re clearly going to need to grow more strawberries next year! The good news is that they are incredibly hardy, they need very little attention and it would seem that most of the bugs hate the neem oil treatments we’ve been giving the plants about once a week because most of the fruits hadn’t been touched by slugs or ants – which was one of our major problems last year.
What have you harvested so far this year? All of you in the South, I don’t want to hear about it. You know who you are. Picking tomatoes in February and lemons from your own trees in March…no, I really don’t want to know. 
See our running tally of everything harvested in 2009 on the page In the Garden.
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All I have harvested (here in the South) is leaf lettuce. We didn’t go pick strawberries this year as time just got away from us. I do have lots of blooms and berries setting on my Elderberry bush and raspberry canes.
Most of the people I read are already harvesting and we just started growing!! I have strawberries and got one tiny little (penny sized) berry and that is it. We are in NH but I can’t help feeling like we are behind!!
Hi Tiffany! Its nice to “meet” you. I am trying to be patient but seriously everything is still in the seedling stage as far as the garden with the exception of the potatoes. If things dont hurry and do well, we will be revising our plan for next year.
Lisa
I’ve eaten one red strawberry, though there are more coming (we just planted the plants this spring, so I’m thrilled with the amount we are getting!), and we’ve been eating peas of the vine like crazy. I think my 5-year-old spent an hour outside yesterday just eating peas (and throwing the pods to the chickens).
Tiny blueberries are starting to form, and the fruit on the peach trees are getting bigger, I also saw the beginnings of raspberries on the raspberry canes.
Tiffany, we are in southern Virginia. The strawberries around here are about done…. though peaches and blueberries are in the near future!
Thanks Tiffany, I need all the help I can get.
Tiffany- It’s nice to be read! I’ve been keeping up with your posts through my feed reader, but haven’t clicked over to comment. With the kids finishing school for summer, life seems to have gotten extra busy.
I love all the pictures of your farm! I’m sure all the projects are a ton of work, but it’s the kind of work I love!
Really? How far South are you again? My dad is near Houston and they have been harvesting stuff for months. Makes me sad lol. But I hope once we get our greenhouse roof fixed up we can grow almost year round here too…things like tomatoes, lettuce – the staples. Would be nice if eggplant and zucchini would stay with us too!
Hi Lisa!
We’re just about in the same “zone” then. We’ve just had an insanely warm spring without any hard freezes to set us back. At least I’m not the only one wishing things would hurry up. Thinking cold frames and tunnels really are the way to go…I might be too impatient for gardening
@Lisa: After living in Texas and Florida for many years, it’s hard for me to get used to the concept of a shorter growing season. But I’ll be posting about our experiences as we try to extend our growing time so maybe we’ll do something that might help you too lol
@Allie: So good to read you again. I’ve been so behind on reading other people’s blogs – can barely keep up with my own!
We’ve got lots of apricots and peaches coming this year too. Cherries are ripe on some of the public land trees but ours have a month or so left. Apples galore. Gooseberries, currants, more strawberries. It should be an incredible harvest year for fruits.
@Janet: We have to start growing some blueberries…something for the orchard perhaps – or in our garden where we’re taking out more roses. Just have to cut through the weeds to find the roses first. Baby steps – just take one project at a time…otherwise I’ll go crazy thinking about all that needs to be done!
LOL Don’t we all, Lisa??? I know I do!