Harvest

Erin asked via email, "What are you harvesting now?" Here in Hawaii I can harvest most crops year around, but not all. We do have several seasonal type crops here. Plus I don't grow everything. There are lots of crops I either haven't tried yet or just simply haven't planted at this time. 

So this past week I've harvested: 

Green onions

Basils

Salad burnet

Mints

Eggplant

Beets

Green beans (two types)

Pumpkin

Tomatoes (pathetic, they are doing terrible)

Parsley

Carrots

Turnips

New Zealand spinach

Daikon

Radishes

Rat tail radishes

Green sweet peppers (3 scrawny ones)

Potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Bok choy

Chinese cabbage

Taro

Pineapple

Lilokoi

Guava

Bananas

Most things are harvested as needed. Just one here, a few there. That means that I can leave them in the garden for a while until I want them. Things like green onions, herbs, taro, carrots. But green beans, tomatoes, eggplant, and pineapples don't hold well in the garden, so they have to be harvested when they are ready. Either eat them, freeze them, sell 'em, or give them away.