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There are some things with nature I don't even try to explain or understand anymore. Just accept the bounty when we have it and wait until next year if we don't.
What's Growing in the Garden
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Now that is a bumper crop. At least for my size garden...
I started extra tomato plants this spring, I gave some to friends and advertised some for sale at a very reasonable price. They didn't sell so I planted them. I've been supplying a small store and a friends roadside stand. So far it's working out but the harvest is picking up, my wife will start putting some up for winter soon. I will probably advertise 10 pound lots at some point. I've been dropping off small and defective ones at our community free vegetable stand at the town office. Probably at some point I will give some to the senior meal site. I'm not getting rich but I've probably covered my gardening experiences for the year.
SALSA TIME!!
And I just happened to have a decent crop of jalapenos coming along.
No pictures means no peppers. ............ Nubs
I believe him -- nobody would lie about jalapenos!!!!!
Dave - take some to ripeness (red). You won't be disappointed - not much difference, but noticeable.
Dave - take some to ripeness (red). You won't be disappointed - not much difference, but noticeable.
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And then take the red ones and smoke then dry them. Grind them up and make chipotle powder!
Come take a bite of one you will know they are real
I know the red ones cost a lot more. My wife bought a couple red bell peppers to put in some green tomato relish and they were almost $5/#.
Yummy....... Did you know that if you can keep the plants from dying this winter, they'll come back and produce more peppers. A friend has a couple plant that are about 5 years old, and I have some Chile Tepins that are going on 30 years old. This is the first year they haven't produced flowers or peppers. I haven't watered them much this year.
If you would like to try and grow some, I'll be more than happy to send you some peppers to get seeds from. ............ Nubs
I don't think I could make that work here in northern Vermont. I've tried bringing bell peppers into the house for the winter, they didn't do well. I wonder if I rooted a cutting if it might do better.
I had a few bell peppers that I used as house plants over winter. The next summer I put them back in the garden and they grew to about 6 feet high. Had peppers all summer. Not a lot, just a steady run from June to mid September. It was a late frost that one year.
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Everything is big this year.
Pumpkins
Honeycrisp are almost ready to start picking.
Bartlett pears are huge. The ones at the top looked good size, but when I climbed the ladder to pick a few, they are BIG. Not all as big as this one though.
Anyone care to guess it's weight?
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Pumpkins
Honeycrisp are almost ready to start picking.
Bartlett pears are huge. The ones at the top looked good size, but when I climbed the ladder to pick a few, they are BIG. Not all as big as this one though.
Anyone care to guess it's weight?
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Here is the first bunch of pears. They don't look too big in this picture, except that is a 16x20 meat lug and the 19oz pear is the one in the upper right corner.
My wife is in food preservation mode this week. It seems like everything is ready at once. Every day I take a bucket of processing scrap to the compost pile. I often think when I dump a bucket of tomato skins, bean tails and such that in some parts of the world this would be going into the stew pot. It makes happy and thankful that I live in this great country and for my bountiful harvest.