late october warm weather brought on a second crop of many things including zucchini red romaine going to seed jalapenos! i’ve been collecting purple bean seeds for a few weeks, now the plants are reflowering and creating new baby beans. awesome new basil leaves. what a treat green bean flowers and new beans baby […]
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Last Big Harvest – November
loads of carrots, some romanesco, cabbage, herbs & kale romanesco growing up. this sight made me oh so happy purple cabbage and fall leaves. gorgeousand delicious carrots
Late Fall Tomato & Pepper Harvests
Despite many september frost warnings, and October touches of frost, tomatoes continued to ripen on my table well into mid-November lots of peppers picked green ripening beautifully on my coffee table hot peppers: bulgarian carrot, jalapenos, and garden sunshine gorgeous peppers ripening in fall sunshine lots of basil! it’s off to the Night Kitchen […]
Adventures in Canning
wasabi pickled beans! wasabi, ginger, garlic, beans, soy sauce & rice vinegar tomato salsa pickled beans pickling beans pickles! peach salsa! making peach salsa pickled beets & carrots of many varieties. gorgeous wines preserved in jameson’s & honey: who knew such perfect concoctions existed. plums in red wine. another delicious idea pears in jameson’s and […]
Better late than never; fall harvest photos!
romanesco! i have been trying to grow this for years. late fall kale & chard purple barley field testing i really really love funny shaped carrots Add caption Add caption late fall tomatoes late october jalapenos!what a treat after many frost warnings & garden coverings drunken frizzy headed women lettuce creating seed for next year! […]
harvest/canning season
peach jalapeno salsa fresh peach jalapeno salsa pre-cooking wasabi pickled beans! pickles! white cucumbers with apple cider vinegar, pepper grounds, hots peppers & dill seed tomato salsa coloured beans before being pickled preparations beans sitting in brine before hot water bath canning sealed and ready to be hot water bathed cucumbers getting washed up & […]
summer in the seed garden
garden plan basil is getting big & smelling great! Despite getting a late start in getting everything planted. things are growing like gang busters in the seed garden. i am trying to grow some exciting new things this season. growing five new types of lettuce for seed and working on an artichoke growing experiment. lots […]
Making Strawberry Jam!
jars of strawberry jam (front) and pureed berries for freezing it is the height of berry season, and long summer days, so of course, it is time to start thinking about winter, or at least think about preserving some of the summer bounty for cold days to come. nic & i are the tractor heading […]
garlic scapes & community garden plot
first garlic scape harvest! mmm. the first big harvest from my community garden plot is here! I planted this garlic last Fall, and despite it struggling a bit with a leek moth infestation, it is scaping beautifully. tiny peppers lift lock garden in the twilight. beauty
making smoked paprika
cold nights mean its time to pick my peppers. i had a whole whack of alma paprika’s first step? remove all the seeds & set them aside to dry on a screen next: cut all stem & excess seed material from peppers then, give them to your awesome friend who puts them in his smoker […]
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