Preserving

Sunday, October 24, 2010

A Fall Harvest Monday that looks like Summer

Surprisingly we haven't had a frost and the garden is still producing tomatoes and a lot of hot peppers. Saturday I harvested 12 oz of Serrano peppers and 6 oz of Jalapeno peppers. There are quite a few bell, paprika, cayenne, more serrano and hot cherry peppers on the plants. We are supposed to have a very warm week. I am going to leave them on the plants in hope of them turning red, yellow or orange.

Over the past 3 weeks more then 10 lbs of usable tomatoes have been harvested and 11 oz. of eggplant. Yesterday I pulled out 5 more tomato plants, leaving only 2 viable plants in the garden. The "Matt's Wild Cherry" and an "Amish Paste" are the only tomato plants remaining. I had left 2 eggplants in the ground hoping that the small fruit would grow a bit. However, they did not get enough sunlight and warmth to grow so I decided to pull the plants yesterday as well.


12 oz. Serrano Peppers


A nice variety of tomatoes


Harvest Total: 12 lbs 2 oz. (3 weeks)

Eggplant - 11 oz.
Peppers:
    Hot - 1 lb. 3 oz.
    Bell - 4 oz.
Tomatoes - 10 lbs. 4 oz.


Stop by Daphne's Dandelions the host of Harvest Monday to see more Fall Harvests!

19 comments:

  1. Beatiful harvest! We've got tomatoes ripening in the house, and can't possibly eat them all...

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  2. Wow! I am so amazed by your harvest! It looks wonderful! Definitely looks like a summer harvest.

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  3. Wow you are still harvesting different type of tomatoes. I tried to count how many varieties, at least 10 I think. Hope you can still prolong summer veggies there.

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  4. EG, Thanks, we can never have too many tomatoes in this house! "The Italian" uses more then I can!

    Mimi, My harvest next week will look more like a fall harvest.

    MK girl, Thanks for counting! There are probably about 10 varities there. This will be the last week of an abundance of tomatoes here.

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  5. Summer harvest for sure! I wish we still had chilies rolling in.

    Our first frost came and went with little fanfare.

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  6. Glad that your frost is holding off. Those chili peppers look great. We had our first killing frost back on 10/10 and have had many since. It's fall/winter gardening for me.

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  7. Great looking produce.

    We seem to be having a frost every night, which is a pain as I seem to spend dusk fleecing up the plants, and dawn removing it again.

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  8. Lovely harvest that makes me long for the return of summer! Those tomatoes in particularly look very yum!

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  9. Lovely harvest, impressive and beautiful/ Tyra

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  10. Congrat Robin, what a lovely harvest, impressive and beautiful/ Tyra

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  11. Got to enjoy the summer crops while we can! Interesting your Amish Paste is still going. Mine is too!

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  12. Your peppers and tomatoes look gorgeous! Great colors!

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  13. Your tomatoes are beautiful - love the rainbow of colors.

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  14. Wow lots of peppers! Nice to see the tomatoes still as well. Mine got blight again so no late harvest for me... :-(

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  15. Those serranos are really lovely, and the continuing tomato harvest is very impressive, Robin!

    Every time the night time temps are forecasted to dip below mid-30s, I hold my breath waiting for that first frost, but so far we've been lucky as well.

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  16. Thomas, It's amazing how well the chilies and bells are doing right now.

    Emily, We don't have a frost in the forecast. We usually have had one by now.

    IG, All of the dressing and undressing of the garden will keep you busy and out of trouble :)

    Villager, I pulled the Amish Paste today. The Matt's Wild Cherry was right next to it and totally infested with aphids.

    Laura, TYRA, Megan & Barbie, Thanks, we are enjoying the last of the summer veggies.

    Dan, I didn't get any blight this year....Thank God!

    Minji, The tomatoes are done. I pulled the last two plants today. The one was infested with aphids. The peppers are still doing well though.

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  17. lucky lucky! A summer harvest in October - so envious!

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  18. Pretty peppers. I just made some pickled peppers today to preserve mine. I hope they last a while, but we haven't gotten a frost yet either so there might be more soon. I can hope at least.

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  19. Stevie, The tomatoes are finished. I still have a lot of peppers out there though.

    Daphne, I pickled some peppers yesterday and hopefully will pickle more! There are dozens of peppers out there.

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