{"id":385,"date":"2008-09-04T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/?p=385"},"modified":"2008-09-04T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:53:59","slug":"week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/2008\/09\/04\/week-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word for this week is weather. It’s been cold (we had visible snow half way down Lone Peak and Timp for a couple days), and extremely windy. A bunch of the corn blew down again. Some of the zucchini and yellow squash plants were ripped almost out of the ground. Most of the squash plants lost leaves in the wind, etc. It was an awesome few days of storminess.<\/p>\n

The storm also seems to have slowed down the rate of new fruit forming. I’m not sure if the storm just kept the bees away, or if the cold actually slowed the plants down. Either way, the harvest was a little slower this week. The only real bright spots were that the good tomatoes (fruit that formed after the irrigation pump issues we had earlier this year) started to ripen and the peppers are rolling right along.<\/p>\n

Picked this week (6 days – we went a day late last time):
\n30 Red Peppers (ask Joe or Lin if they have any heat)
\n2 Green Peppers
\n8 Zucchini
\n13 Yellow Squash
\n2 Turnips
\n6 Cucumbers
\n20 Pear Tomatoes
\n4 Roma Tomatoes
\n3 Tomatoes
\n90 oz Beans
\n4 oz Green Onions
\n12 Beets
\n12 oz Carrots
\n27 ears of Corn
\n3 Spaghetti Squash
\n1 Hubbard Squash
\n5 Jack-Be-Little Pumpkins<\/p>\n