- Recent Harvest for Clyde Backdoor Pantry
- Eggplant with "noses"
August 28, 2018
A big thank you to Cathy Ackerman who harvested about 10 lbs. of green beans last Thursday when I was unable to complete the harvest. We have been averaging over 100 lbs. of produce weekly with these harvests. Nearly 544 lbs. of produce has been harvested in August alone!
I have decided to close down the garden early this year, with our last harvest being September 11, 2018 which will include the sweet potato harvest. I’m hoping to get to the potatoes before the voles eat through them which has seemed to be a problem in the past couple of years. I don't think we rotate our crops as often as maybe we should, so for this reason I am scaling down the size of the garden and the lowlands for next year and the years to come. They will be about half the size as they are now. This will give us more time to focus on the produce in the garden boxes, and the prairie garden and culinary garden in future years.
Below are pictures from our last harvest we donated to the Clyde Backdoor Food Pantry, and also some funny eggplant that seemed to grow "noses". I don’t know if this happened due to cross pollination with the peppers or beans, or if it was just a genetic fluke.
Thank you again for everyone who continues to work in the gardens! We couldn't do this project with out you!
Patti Keller, RD, LD, CDE