We're Close... But The Harvests Are Getting Smaller! (week 25)

Welcome back to the thousand pound challenge. I don't even know what week we're on anymore, but I do know that it is mid-September. And what I also know is that we're at 899 pounds, 101 pounds to go to actually accomplishing this crazy goal and challenge. So let's get into harvesting, which I'm so fired up about because we've got a new crop to harvest for the first time this season. Look at this right here. Look at this baby. How good is that? All right, here we go. Oh, thing of beauty. Look at that. Let's go. All right. New crop unlocked you. And I'm actually going to leave these broccoli plants, all of them in the ground to continue growing. The reason why is because coming off of the main stem where the leaves are coming off of it, like this one and this one, right out of this node here or here, you're going to get new broccoli shoots or a little like almost like broccolinis or broccoli spears coming out of each of these nodes. So by leaving them in the ground, I think we'll get even more harvest off of them over the remainder of the season. Let's continue along. All right. I'm so impressed that these zucchini is still just barely with any powdery mildew on them. These guys on the other hand, I think this is their final day. Let's see if there's any in here. No. Oh, I think that's the final one right here. Thank you for your service. Final zucchini of the season. Thank you for your service. This pumpkin still hasn't been discovered by the bears and it's starting to ripen up. I'm going to give it another week. Oh man. The harvest are definitely getting smaller though. As usual, please excuse me while I harvest tomatoes for the next hour somewhere way in here. There is a nice big ripe tomato. Beautiful. All right. Now over to the beans. Look at all those. All right. Time for the second bed of carrots here. And I think these ones will be smaller than the first bed here because the tomatoes are blocking out way more of the sun. Let's find out. All right. First one should be good cause they get lots of sun from the front here, but let's see. I mean those look pretty good. All right. Wasn't expecting them to be that good. Amazing. This has been such a highlight. This little carrot hack that I've discovered here. There's a tomato for me. There's my ration for the week. Yeah. See, see how small these are. Just not getting enough sun in there. That's a okay though. Alrighty. I don't think that today is the day that we're going to go over a thousand pounds, but another really great harvest. And we'll get it on the scale in just a second here. I do have to say though, like, and I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I think that one of the things I'm most proud of with this thousand pound challenge is the number of different crops that have successfully grown to the point of being harvested and shared with the community. You know, even right now we're now into mid-September and we're getting broccoli for the very first time. Our second pull of green beans has been like new crops going for weeks and weeks on end. So it's been so cool to have such variety coming out of the garden. Huge highlight for me. Now let's see what this brings us up to and how close we end up getting to our total of thousand pounds. Okay, here we go. Zero that out tomatoes. All right. Last but not least, carrots. Here we go. It's starting to get close. Exactly 50 pounds, six ounces. Add that on to the 899 which puts us up to 949 pounds. We're now 51 pounds away from completing the challenge. We're getting there. Let's now get this published for the community so they can all come and pick up this evening. All right, so got a little bit of time, but to be honest, like the thing that I should be doing now is cleaning up the garden, but I don't really want to clean up too much yet. Like I'm still enjoying the garden. A lot of things are still looking pretty green and lively. So just going to do like a little bit of tidying up, but not very much. Okay. And everything else, I just want to leave it in place for the time being. Keep on enjoying summer for a little bit. A little bit chilly out. Hey, how you doing? Of course. Yeah. Dig it. Start digging in. Help yourself. Hi Roo. Welcome back, buddy. You came to get vegetables. Roo, should we find you a flower that you can, that you can throw on the ground? Do you want to take it? Yeah. There you go. I don't think so. Hey man, how you doing? I'm good. How you doing? The last time man, I made pickles out of those cucumbers. They're good. Oh my God. Love it. Second, last one. Second, last one. Yeah. Hey there. How you doing? Get in there. Get in there. I'm good. I'm good. Thanks. Yeah. Good to see you guys. Yeah. It's going, it's going quick today. Uh, you're welcome. Have a good evening. Hey Charlie. Charlie, should we get you raspberry? Strawberry? Yeah. Strawberry. You're welcome. Take care. Let me see if I can find one. Got some goodies for your boy. Help yourself. It's, it's going, it's going fast today. So probably, probably take the, take the rest of those if I were you. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be definitely more than more than a thousand, but I'll wrap it up after the thousand mark. How you doing? Good. Good. Good. Oh no way. It was good. Amazing. Uh, nine 949 pounds. So yeah, I think it's, I think it's gonna, it's gonna happen, but yeah, one more, one more big harvest probably, probably two weeks from now cause like it's starting to slow down. Pardon me? I know. Right. Hi. Wow. Wow. Wow. What do you want? What do you want? You want more? Do you want to go harvest one or two? Yeah. Okay. Let's see if we can find some. Let's see if we can find some. I'm S I'm stealing your son for a minute. Oh, look at these. Look at these. Do you want to grab it? Yeah. Berries. Ready? That's it. Pull. Yeah. Good job. That one's for me. Ready? Cheers. You bring, are you bringing something for your mom? Here you go. Alrighty. That disappeared in a hurry today. Feel a little bit bad cause a couple of people came a bit early and things were pretty much already gone by like five minutes after six 30, six 40 at the latest. Interesting as well on that front, it was like a little bit quiet there for a couple of weeks in August, not tons of people coming by. And this is like literally the first Thursday after labor day, long weekend, everybody's back from summer holidays, et cetera. And everything's gone like that today. So just funny to see that. And we're at 949 stinking pounds. Let's go. I can see the thousand pounds in the garden. I know that we've got it, which means that, um, a next episode we're going over a thousand pounds B. It's going to be a massive, just celebration episode, ton of ton of fun on that front. Um, and I'm actually going to wait, I think one additional week here. So I'm not going to upload next week, but I will upload the following week with that final harvest. Um, just as I want a couple of those other crops to regrow and to just like really fill in. So that's a nice, big final harvest for the end of the thousand pound challenge. But that episode is gonna be a ton of fun. I'll catch you all then. See you then.