The first frost of the season should be here any day now, which means it's time to harvest most of the remaining vegetables. Here is a recap of today's harvest:
- The Brussels sprouts were a complete bust. Bugs have eaten all the sprouts and I'm really disappointed about it. No pictures because it's too sad.
- Kale is not doing much better, but we are going to keep that in the ground because it is frost resistant.
- We got a huge new batch of cayenne peppers! They are now strung up in another south facing window.
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| Just picked from the garden |
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| 42 cayenne peppers in total |
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| From an earlier harvest of peppers; took about a month to get this red |
- Bell peppers have stopped turning red, so I picked the rest of the green ones. Healthy snacks all week!
- What in the world are we going to do with all these flipping jalapeños?? 2.5 lbs. We already pickled 5 lbs of these, and there is no way I'm doing that again (will have to post on that later). We've been making a LOT of jalepeño poppers, but you can only eat so many of those in one sitting before feeling like you are permanently damaging your esophagus lining. The good news is that these stay fresh a really long time, so we can probably draw this batch out through December. Any jalepeño recipe or preservation ideas?
- And finally, I just picked the rest of the eggplants and cherry tomatoes. Those green things are the few sad little kale leaves that were ready. See all the holes from where bugs are eating them? Arg! The good news is that eggplants are good to eat at just about any size, so you can either wait all those weeks and get a huge eggplant (enough for one eggplant parm), or just pick the little ones and use them for other things. I'm going to try to make eggplant chips with these - I'll report back in another post.
Stay tuned for recaps on more vegetables and some future work on getting the garden ready for winter!
