Today's Pickings

[Meadowlark]

Peppers are picked daily here this time of year, and they are accompanied today by very tasty Broccoli, choy, Daikon radish, Kale, turnip greens, collard greens, and a surprise sweet potato every now and then that I missed.

 

[zigs]

Storm coming so I picked the apples off before they end up in Essex.

First year of picking from this tree

 

[gary350]

First freeze tonight I picked 297 peppers. Anaheim, sweet Carmen, and a few Jalapeno.

 

[Meadowlark]

The freeze is hitting here tonight...so I'm picking peppers also.

Three jalapeno plants yielded 305 jalapenos this picking after producing peppers all year. I figure that each plant probably produced about 300 peppers each over the entire season. That's a lot of peppers...and more trips to the food bank.

Each of these plants were volunteers from the previous year's peppers which were also volunteers from before that and so on. Got a good thing going on these large jalapenos.

 

[Meadowlark]

Starting the Thanksgiving prep with radishes for relish trays and sweet potatoes casserole. Much more to go but it looks like the tomatoes won't be ripe by Thanksgiving but soon after.

 

[zigs]

Looking good Meadowlark

 

[Meadowlark]

A nice variety of fall harvest today: Broccoli, early wakefield cabbage, purple top turnips, collards, mizuna
The cabbage heads running 2.5 pounds each.

 

[Meadowlark]

First time harvest of Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes. 5 pounds from one container.

Time to try them out on the table.

 

[Tetters]

Crikey @Meadowlark, you produce enough top quality crops to run your own farm shop. You would make a fortune if you lived in our neck of the woods.

 

[Meadowlark]

Thank you. In another life, in another time, and in another place @Tetters ...

 

[Logan]

First harvest of the year.
5lb of Rhubarb

 

[DirtMechanic]

First harvest of the year.
5lb of Rhubarb
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My DW is in the kitchen just bubbling about some canned rhubarb that is close to what she enjoyed up north. I will enjoy some rhubarb pie for dinner tonight!

 

[skinyea]

First time harvest of Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes. 5 pounds from one container.

Time to try them out on the table.

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funny. I planted 3 lbs of sunchokes yesterday. never grew them b efore. loved eating them as a kid ,so I could rip some good ones

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Love Rhubarb water.

 

[Meadowlark]

Time to dust off this oldie, but goodie thread...

This fall has been absolutely the worst growing conditions I've ever experienced in gardening...and yet through the insane weather events, a couple of all time staples have shown brightly, green beans and new potatoes.

It's been too hot for both, too dry for both, and now too wet for both, but they produce amazingly.

We've picked 15 gallons of fresh green beans including those shown below today.

We are still harvesting potatoes and looking at well over 100 pounds of harvest.

The old time staples, green beans and new potatoes, prove their worth in the worst of times.