Monday, July 29, 2019

The End of July: Harvest Ripens


I love July, especially when berries start to ripen they are black and red currants, gooseberries red and green, which are very sweet. Therefore I need to choose a warm morning, but without rain to start picking berries. Here is black currant picked and in jam.



In rainy days I work in the greenhouse. It's warm and dry there, the vegetables ripen day by day. I planted peppers for the first time and now I look at how large and green they get. To say true, they had to be of a different variety. But I still like them.



For the first time I also grow Beef variety tomatoes, they are large and I am afraid they won't have enough warm days to blush on the branches. So I'll laid them to ripen at home. Have anyone done  this?




Cucumbers grew well in June and July, and probably in August they will finish. I often made salads with cucumbers and greens, I love this salad. Squashes are just starting to ripen and the smallest ones are ready to be frozen for winter and I also put them in veggie soup.



What crop do you have in your vegetable garden? Do you buy organic veggies? 
Here are my flowers that bloom and glad me.



24 comments:

  1. A wonderful harvest! I have not tasted black currant jam, looks delicious. Beautiful green capsicum and tomatoes. I have often brought tomatoes inside to ripen on a window-sill, before the birds start to peck at them when they begin to change colour. I also used to make green tomato pickles at the end of summer.
    I do buy organic vegetables some of the time, but they are much more expensive than the others.
    Enjoy the fruits of your labour, Nadezda!

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    1. Thanks for your advice Betty. I'll put tomatoes to ripen before autumn comes.

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  2. It is quite wonderful to have so many fresh fruits and vegetables at this time of the year and everyone should take advantage of it. The cherries especially have been delicious this year and we eat them every day.

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    1. I love cherries as well David. You're lucky to have them in own garden.

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  3. You have a wonderful harvest, Nadezda! The berries looks great.
    Hugs!

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  4. Hello Nadezda, your beautiful and abundant harvest made me smile happily. Such a lovely result of your work.
    We bring every year the last tomatoes inside to ripen, usually in the end of August.
    Peas have grown well this year here.
    We try always to buy local veggies, they may not be officially "organic", but they are much tastier than those grown somewhere far. :)
    Hugs!

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    1. Sara I'm glad you have good harvest of peas, I don't have it. I will bring tomatoes to ripen inside too, thanks for your advice.

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  5. Picking blackcurrants is tedious isn't it? WE make most of ours into a compote and freeze it as that way uses less sugar.

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    1. Yes it is Sue, I always tire to stand near the bush. Sure you have tasty berries in winter.

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  6. It is always lovely when the fruits start to ripen. We have a lot of blackberries here, they grow wild but they are, I think, a cultivated variety. Maybe they have escaped from a garden, long ago. I adore blackcurrant jam. The flavour of blackcurrants and red currants is very distinctive and special. I find they freeze well so I can make fruit pies with them at any time of year if I combine them with cooking apples. I have just frozen half a kilo of redcurrants which I bought when I was in the country, they were in the porch of a church, waiting for someone to donate some money to the church by buying them.

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    1. I agree Jenny - frozen berries is a treasure in winter so you can make any tasty things with them.
      What lovely people left red currants near the church!

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  7. Me alegra que tengas tan buena cosecha. Los pimientos aquí los llamamos, gordos o morrones, los tomates necesitan mucho sol para madurar pero cuando llegue el frío los dejas en la planta dentro del invernadero y maduraran. La mermelada tiene que estar riquísima. Besitos.

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    1. Oh, gracias por tu consejo, Teresa. Yo trambien puedo dejar tomates en el invernadero.

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  8. What a great harvest! Have a nice week Nadezda;-)

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  9. The jams must be very tasty, Nadezda. Your organic tomatoes look healthy and appetizing.
    Good week! Hugs!

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  10. Hello Dear Nadezda!
    You have beautiful crops. Own vegetables and fruits is a great gift. I also have my cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, carrots, parsley, sugar snap peas, beetroots and potatoes.
    Greetings.

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  11. Alegría de casecha. Tienes mejor el huerto que yo Nadezda. Este año los tomates no están creciendo, siguen pequeños no sabemos por qué.
    Rica mermelada has hecho.
    Un abrazo.

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    1. Si, Laura la mermelada es rica pero voy a guardarla hasta el invierno :-)

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  12. Deseo que estés bien amiga. Te deseo un buen Agosto.
    Un abrazo.

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