Remarkably, we are still getting harvests from the garden!
In the colander are what might be the last of the Purple Beauty peppers – they have had a lot of strangely small, thin walled peppers. There’s also a Sweet Chocolate pepper in there, as well as a few hot peppers. There are a couple of eggplants, and all three types of beans, some Chocolate Cherry tomatoes, plus a few San Marzano tomatoes.
In the bin are the Former de Couer and Black Cherry tomatoes. I’m picking most of them a bit on the green side, to get some of the weight off the plants.
Yesterday, we were able to get some things into the freezer.
I grabbed all the bell peppers and prepared them for freezing. If you click through to the next image, you can see them laid out in a couple of gallon sized freezer bags.
Earlier, I cut up enough melons to fill two baking trays. Those will be bagged up later.
While chopping up the peppers, I took advantage of my husband coming by and taste testing the four different kinds of bell peppers we had (the last variety still hasn’t turned colour yet).
His conclusion:
They all had that “bell pepper” taste, but they were very mild – as in there wasn’t a lot of flavour. The exception was the yellow pepper. Those have much thick walls, to it was great to hear that.
Something to keep in mind when deciding what varieties to grow next year.
In other things, we’ve got another windy day today. It’s supposed to continue through to tomorrow. So far, I’ve found found a few downed branches, but no fallen trees! We’re going to have to keep an eye/ear out for the next while.
I did end up going out this morning. My older daughter is feeling sick today and didn’t have the energy to cook. So she sprung for take out for all of us! Which worked out fine, as it gave me a chance to refill a couple of the 18.9L water jugs in town.
We’re supposed to reach a high of 26C/79F today, while the overnight low is, remarkably, supposed to be 21C/70F!
Tomorrow night, however, the overnight low is supposed to drop to 7C/45F, so we’ll need to make sure to drop the sides of the plastic around the eggplant and hot pepper bed. In a few days, we’re supposed to drop to 1C/34F. The eggplant and pepper bed can be covered, but we’ll have to pick all the green tomatoes, and probably the last of the melons and squash, too, since we have no way to protect those from frost. The high raised bed has a cover on it to protect the peppers from deer, and support any peppers tall enough to grow through it. We can use that to hold protective covers off the plants.
We’re 19 days past our average first frost date, so I am certainly not complaining. Still, it would be awesome if the weather decided to say milder for a bit longer!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 