Vegetable Harvest Report 06 2010

August 16-August 30:

Cucumber:  4.1 ounces

Eggplant:  15.7 ounces

Hot Pepper:  4.2 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  1 pound, 14.4 ounces

Tomato: 4 pounds, 9.4 ounces

Weight Total:  7 pounds, 15.8 ounces

Running Weight Total:  46 pounds,  8.5 ounces

I'm definitely on track to beat last year's total.  I hope I didn't just jinx myself!


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Vegetable Harvest Report 05 2010

The video isn't gardening related, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

August 2-August 15:

Cherry Tomato:  3 pounds, 3.9 ounces

Cucumber:  15.6 ounces

Eggplant:  1 pound, 2.2 ounces

Hot Pepper:  7.1 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  1 pound, 9.5 ounces

Tomato: 12.6 ounces

Weight Total:  8 pounds, 2.9 ounces

Running Weight Total:  38 pounds,  8.7 ounces

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Unfortunately I was right, the tomatoes do have early blight

Damn, it's definitely early blight and it has spread to the other 2 tomato plants in the GrowBox container.  Dark lesions with a bulls-eye pattern of concentric rings (click on the photo for a closer look) are the classic symptoms of early blight.

Early blight produces a wide range of symptoms at all stages of plant growth. It can cause damping-off, collar rot, stem cankers, leaf blight, and fruit rot. The classic symptoms occur on the leaves where circular lesions up to 1/2" in diameter are produced. Within these lesions dark, concentric circles can be seen. The leaf blight phase usually begins on the lower, older leaves and progresses up the plant. Infected leaves eventually wither, die, and fall from the plant. 

Ever since the cherry tomato plant was infected I've been watching these vegetable plants like a hawk, so I noticed the signs very early on, and have been treating it with weekly applications of organic fungicide.  As a result, the infection hasn't spread that far up the plants and tomato production hasn't been affected.  Hopefully all of them will hold out until the end of the season.

These bulls-eye lesions didn't appear on the cherry tomato leaves.  Maybe because the leaves were too small? Anyway, it was nice to be able to figure what was going on.

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Vegetable Harvest Report 04 2010

July 20-August 1:

Cherry Tomato:  12.1 ounces

Cucumber:  1 pound 4.4 ounces

Eggplant:  2 pounds, 1.1 ounces

Cantaloupe: 5 pounds, 4.7 ounces

Hot Pepper:  2.0 ounces

Sweet Pepper:  2 pounds, 3.7 ounces

Tomato: 4 pounds, 5.3 ounces

Weight Total:  16 pounds, 1.3 ounces

Running Weight Total:  30 pounds,  5.8 ounces

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