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Harvest Season 👨🌾 5th field update 📷
Hello, Hive gardeners! 👨🌾 📷
“Drought” has been the word that has come up most often over the past three weeks in connection with agricultural crops around here. It’s true—my field was no exception—but with one small difference: I prepared (read: pumped) enough water for us to get through it, though it still left some consequences.

Strawberries—they're all dried up... but it's my own fault. Even though we had plenty of water, we didn't water everything, and here's the result.

Watermelons, two plants—although they’ve dried up now, we’ve already harvested them and come out ahead.

I watered them regularly and heavily—five liters of water per plant every other day—and two grew to be huge; we just ate the second one today—it lasted a whole week :)
Both were huge—one weighed over 13 kilograms, the other over 14 kilograms. I’ve actually already posted a few photos of the bigger one
https://ecency.com/@seckorama/beer-tasting-1664-blanc-wheat
Here’s the smaller one. I’m really proud of them because everyone kept telling me it wouldn’t amount to anything. I’m thinking about growing melons next year:)


Since I’m measuring, here’s the biggest and heaviest potato :)
There weren’t many, but the tubers averaged half a kilo. This is a later variety; we harvested the early variety—which was small—a month ago, as I described in my previous post;

There are quite a few tomatoes this year, and they’ve finally begun to ripen.






We picked a few; they’ll ripen in a crate, and we’ll cook most of them for sauce.

Surprisingly, most of the eggplants this year were white. They’re medium-sized.



And peppers. They changed color in just a couple of days.



We expected more beans, but there weren't as many as in previous years.


That's all for the beans. On the left are Borlotti beans, an Italian variety that's very common here, and on the right are Biserac beans, which originate from Montenegro.


We harvested this last Friday.
Now the weather has finally changed. It rained heavily over the weekend, and it’s supposed to rain tomorrow as well.
I hope that now that the soil has recovered, something else will grow.

Thanks for reading!
I’ll check in when there’s something new.
If someone is interested in my fieldwork - how it started this year and how is going:
https://ecency.com/@seckorama/heat-and-drought-4th-field
https://ecency.com/@seckorama/work-in-the-fields-3rd
https://ecency.com/@seckorama/work-in-the-fields-2nd
https://ecency.com/@seckorama/the-first-fieldwork-of-the
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Replies (11)
I think one of the best thing on earth is to harvest your own vegetables, I think it's the best option if you want to consume healthy food. Seeing those tomatoes is making me hungry 😋 I just love tomatoes.
You've been curated 🌷
We are blessed this year with good harvest of maize and melon. Our groundnut didn't come out as expected. Our own watermelon is just starting, in fact we still planting (even as at today)
Awesome! Hard labor blessed with great harvest.🥰 The watermelon 🍉 and potato are monster- sized. Sad about the strawberries though, you know what to do next time. Aren't they a little needy, needing more tlc? Those white eggplants are interesting. 🤍 Enjoy your amazing harvest.🤗
Thank you for your support!
Sometimes there are more of certain plants, sometimes fewer. This year, we had the most cucumbers and fewer beans. As for watermelons, this was the first time we planted them.
Thank you for your kind wishes. Yes, for next year's strawberry crop, we're planning to use additional black plastic sheeting, which has already proven to be a good decision for other plants this year.
You're most welcome, have a wonderful day! ☺️
Wow, how beautiful! And I always have a harvest in my garden of tapiramos beans, the ones that are painted.
We started planting them last year.
Que bien va muy bonito
Update: @seckorama, I paid out 3.536 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 4 comments in this discussion thread.