Well, we tried…
When I uncovered the high raised bed this morning, it was clear the covers were not enough to keep the peppers from being damaged by the frost a couple of nights ago.
The eggplant and hot pepper bed also saw damage, though the eggplants and each end faired worse than the hot peppers in the middle.
So I just went ahead and started harvesting.
I had grabbed just the ripest of the hot peppers for now, though a couple of green ones broke off in the process. We’ll go back to tend to that bed, later.
With the bell peppers, I gathered almost off of them. I did leave behind the tiny ones that were too small to bother with, though I think some of the ones I did grab probably could have been left, too. It just seems a shame to leave them behind.
You can tell which ones are the Sweet Chocolate peppers, even when they’re green. They have a more elongated shape.
So these will be set out to ripen more before getting cut up and either frozen or dehydrated. Most likely the bell peppers will all be frozen, but the hot peppers will be dried and then powdered. We have quite a few ripe and ready to start on now. We’ll be using the oven to dehydrate them, so that will be an overnight thing.
The red onions in the high raised bed with the bell peppers were left for now. They can handle the colder temperatures, and most aren’t really ready for harvesting, yet.
Today is working out to be a very windy day, and we’re supposed to get rain, of and on, so we won’t be getting a lot of outside stuff done today.
That’s okay. There’s plenty of inside work to do!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 