{"id":841,"date":"2010-08-22T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-08-22T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:23:19","slug":"bragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/2010\/08\/22\/bragging\/","title":{"rendered":"Bragging"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always hard for me to keep posting this around this time of year. There’s so much stuff coming in that it feels like bragging to say much about it. But I also feel guilty about not posting for such a long time, so eventually I wind up doing a post like this one.<\/p>\n

Everything is doing well, with the exception of the corn. But let’s be honest, none of us really expected to get any corn this year, especially since we didn’t plant it until so late. But the tomatoes have gone insane. We’re picking more than a hundred roma tomatoes each week and somewhere between 500 and a thousand cherry tomatoes. I don’t waste time counting them anymore. We pick about two pounds of beans every other day, and an Armenian cucumber and a zucchini every day.<\/p>\n

Last week we culled what seemed like a million peppers and had a big party with peppers in everything. Stuffed Poblanos, Jalapeno poppers, stuff bell peppers, salsa, guacamole, etc., etc. It was great. As luck would have it, we’re doing the same thing again this week. There’s really no other way to even pretend to come close to keeping up with the rate we’re picking them. It’s awesome.<\/p>\n

There are a few things we still haven’t started picking yet:
\n– Brandywine Tomatoes
\n– Cherokee Purple Tomatoes
\n– Squash
\n– Grapes<\/p>\n

Picked this week:
\n8 pounds of Beans
\n15 pounds of Blue Potatoes
\n10 pounds of Yukon Gold Potatoes
\n10 pounds of Red Potatoes
\n800 Cherry Tomatoes
\n150 Roma Tomatoes
\n50 Pear Tomatoes
\n120 Tomatillos
\n80 Jalapeno Peppers
\n80 Banana Peppers
\n40 Poblano Peppers
\n30 Peperoncini Peppers
\n20 Anaheim\/Big Jim Peppers
\n20 Green Peppers
\n5 Hungarian Wax Peppers
\n2 Orange Sun Peppers
\n1 Habanero Pepper
\n10 Jack-Be-Little Pumpkins
\n10 Onions
\n15 Eggplants
\n50 Blackberries<\/p>\n

It’s pretty insane.
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