I think we picked a lot more stuff this week than we normally do. The tomatoes have just been going crazy… Almost as crazy as the zucchini. The corn is on. The beans are finally on. The peppers are just amazing. The tomatillos are coming so fast that I have even been throwing some away because I wasn’t able to pick them soon enough. It’s been a really great week for harvesting things.

I haven’t gone out of my way to count or weigh everything, but I’m guessing we picked between 80 and 100 tomatoes this week. That’s a lot of tomatoes. Luckily we have been able to give some away. The tomatoes look like they’ll continue coming in at this rate for a few weeks. These are going to be great weeks. Yesterday we did a tomato cook-down with some hot peppers. It really turned out well… but at a ratio of 2 cayenne peppers to about 30 tomatoes, we’re not going to use up those hot peppers nearly fast enough.

We also started picking and eating corn, and it’s been really great. Unfortunately, there isn’t a whole lot more corn out there. The beets are looking good. We picked four or five beets this week, but I don’t think we’ve eaten them yet.

So from a harvest perspective, it was a great week.

The weeds have been getting out of control recently, and Charmaine has really been working hard to get the cleaned up. She’s really made great progress along the zucchini row along the fence. It’s like a completely new garden. She also tilled under the remaining potatoes, lettuce, broccolini, and cabbage (and all the weeds that were intermixed). She ran into a bit of trouble while tilling those under… the tiller found and grabbed some sprinkler funny-pipe, twisting it around the tines of the tiller and binding the tiller down. In her attempts to free the tiller, she wound up breaking the welds that hold the handles of the tiller to the tiller itself. So we’ll need to find a solution for that before the end of the year.

I disabled the sprinklers in that section in hopes of avoiding a flood. Well, that section stayed dry, but the lawn flooded. I’m still not sure how or why. We did a bunch of digging and investigating, but haven’t figured anything out. It seemed almost like a sprinkler pipe was broken under the lawn, but as we’ve turned on sprinklers since then, everything has been fine… it hasn’t flooded again. I don’t like problems that go away without an explanation, so I’m not satisfied yet. Kyle should be coming back this week to add some curbing to the new side yard. I hope I get a chance to ask him about it and have him take a look and tell me what he thinks.