The harvests continue to dwindle down as the weather gets cooler, but we still have a few things going on in the garden.
On Thanksgiving morning, I went out and picked three and a half pounds of collards to cook up to go with our family dinner. I was working quickly and I completely forgot to take a picture of them. They were delicious!
We were fortunate to have some other things to harvest as well.
This represents the last harvest of our heritage raspberries for this year. Six of them weighed 1/2 ounce. As you can tell, if I pick it, I weigh it.
Our three jalapeno pepper plants only produced four peppers this year. These two weighed one ounce. If the plants winter over in the container I think I'll plant them in the ground next spring. Although they're still healthy, maybe they don't like being in a container.
I picked three-quarters of a pound of sorrel this week for some nice soup. It did well this year.
We picked twenty-nine more marconi peppers this week. They weighed in at two and a half pounds.
The Park's Whopper tomatoes are now finished for the year. I picked all the remaining tomatoes and got 53 of them that weighed a total of eleven and one half pounds. The pinkish ones will go in a window to ripen up, and the green ones will be made into green tomato relish.
That completes the harvest report for this week. It's been a relatively good gardening year even though mine got a late start due to some unexpected surgery I had. Next year will be a better one, but I'm still thankful for all we've been able to harvest this year. I'm especially thankful for being able to teach the grandkids where their food comes from. You know you're doing something right when a two year old asks Poppa to see the compost without being prompted to ask.
Happy gardening to all the gardeners out there, and I hope it is a mild winter for all of us!
Visit DaphnesDandelions for beautiful pictures of delicious food from her garden and a great source of gardening information.
Have a great vegetable gardening day.
Veggie PAK
That's a pretty good haul as it gets later. Our garden is totally gone, but the promise of next's years garden is exciting. Happy gardening.
ReplyDeleteI was just reading your profile. Not knowing exactly where you lived in Upstate NY I may be wrong but you must find gardening so much different that in NY. I know I am zone 4 and it is a challenge every year to beat the frost.
ReplyDeleteYour crop of Marconi peppers this year must have been huge! Every week you pick tons of them.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely harvest; I've planted some sorrel seeds and waiting for them to sprout which they may or may not do since they are a few years old.
ReplyDeleteGirlRural.com, Planning next year's garden IS exciting! Happy gardening to you too!
ReplyDeletewilderness, I lived in Hudson which is about 36 miles below Albany. Yes, the weather for gardening is very different! Here in Virginia, I can garden year round since our soil hasn't been frozen for a couple of decades at least. Collards, broccoli and cabbage go through our winters pretty well down here. Slow growing, but growing nonetheless.
Mark Willis, Yes it has been a good year for my pepper crop. So far, from 13 plants I have harvested 421 peppers that totaled 39.56 pounds. My freezer is just about full.
Mary Hysong, Thanks! If those seeds sprout, I would try to raise some of them for new seeds. It's always good to freshen the seed supply.
Thanks for visiting and sharing your comments!
Have a great vegetable gardening day!
Veggie PAK
Boy you had a good harvest for this time of the year! I wish that I had started my collards much earlier. Now we won't have any until Spring. Oh well, maybe next year I will be on time!
ReplyDeleteRobin, I wish I had started my collards earlier too. I planted the first rows on August 14th. I wish I had planted them on July 14th because by now I would have had much larger harvests. I'll have to remember that for next year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting and have a great day!
Veggie PAK
Some beautiful harvests. I don't think my kids were ever interested in the compost. My son helped occasionally, but I don't think he really cared. Sadly he still hates the color green in food (limes excluded).
ReplyDeleteOh to be enjoying fresh tomatoes and peppers still! Lucky you!
ReplyDeleteThe harvest looks great and I bet those collards were wonderful for the feast day meal.
That is one good harvest, even the raspberries!
ReplyDeleteI never grew sorrel, should try that next year. To be able to garden year round, how delightful!
ReplyDeleteHow & when do you prune you raspberries? Do you just hack them back to the ground? Trying to figure mine out. Any help would be much appreciated as I try to get just a few berries
ReplyDeleteDaphne, Thanks! At least you exposed your son to it so that at some point in the future, he might get interested in composting and gardening. He sees how well you do with it. How could he resist?
ReplyDeletekitsapFG, Oh yes, it was all great!
Shaheen, Thanks! It is exciting this late in the year!
Norma Chang, I love being able to garden year round!
cdidden, I have Heritage Raspberries, so I prune them down within a couple inches of the ground after they have completely died back. When I was selecting the type I would grow, I read about various methods of pruning individual canes. I thought that was tedious work. Then I came across the type I have and it said you can prune them by running a lawn mower over them. I knew they were the ones for me! Heritage raspberries also produce two crops per year. I really like that! If you know what type you have, I would check with the cooperative extension website for your area for pruning guidelines. They have great information.
I thank each of you for visiting and sharing your comments with me.
Have a great vegetable gardening day!
Veggie PAK
Nice harvest for this time of the year!
ReplyDeleteLooks yummy! That's great that you are teaching your grandchildren about gardening. Children are fun to have in the garden. Good luck on your garden next year.
ReplyDeleteMahes, Thanks! We're grateful for it.
ReplyDeleteMy Urban Gardens, I wish more people would try to teach children about gardening. They need to know how to do it, or at least see others do it so they will have some inspiration for it. With this economy, the ability to grow your own food might become crucial. Thanks, and good luck to you on your garden next year as well!
Thanks to both of you for stopping by for a visit!
Veggie PAK