It is Harvest Monday at
Dahpne's Dandelions! Join the fun and share your harvest or just look around!
Last night we had our first frost, almost a month early! Mid October is usually our first frost. So, the garden is all covered in sheets right now and it is suppose to get back into the 80s this week! Trying to extend that harvest!
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| Raspberries and cherry tomatoes and beans are slowing down. I am getting a few Sugar Magnolia Purple Snap peas. If you saw my last post, I wrote about my peppers and the diseases that are taking them, but I am still getting a few. |
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| The second Georgia Flaming Hot Pepper, and there is one more. I am afraid this plant got too shaded by the larger bell pepper plants to produce much more. And I found 2 little potatoes, I may find more as I start pulling everything up, I just don't want to disturb the roots systems of other nearby plants. |
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| Oh I am so excited about this sweet potato harvest so far! That one in the middle has a ruler on it, it is almost 2 lbs! I still have more to dig up but these are probably the largest ones. So excited, but now I am working on figuring out the best way to cure them. They need to be "cured" for about 2 weeks in a high temperature and high humidity environment. This has not been easy. Right now they are in the bathroom with a heater and a humidifier, but DH is trying to find a heat lamp to put in the mini indoor greenhouse and I will put it in there with a tub of water. Hope we find a good solution. How do you cure your sweet potatoes? |
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| Hate to find a tomato turning and pick it to find a giant spot a worm has been eating on. |
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| These are the smallest carrots from my season, but the best tasting. No green shoulders or bitter taste and chilly weather has been good for them! :) |
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| One of our other new neighbors gave me these little HOT peppers. They are tiny. Anyone know what they are? The plant looks like it has purple leaves. I may save the seeds and grow one. These are smaller than the Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes, smaller than this dime. |
Hope everyone is getting a great harvest!
Frost so early, hope you did not sustain any damage. Great and varied harvest you had. That's a huge sweet potato in the middle of the pack.
ReplyDeleteIf there is room, may be you can cure your sweet potatoes on top of the refrigerator.
Thanks Norma, even if there was room on top of the fridge, there is no heat up there, it is cool. Strange huh? I have a heat lamp in my mini green house now, hopefully that will do the trick!
DeleteYour harvest still looks well this late in the season! Sorry about your early frost. It has gotten colder here but so far no frost thankfully. Nice sweet potato crop. I don't know much about growing them and your carrots still look good to me! Nancy
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those are Chiltepin peppers? Too hot for me if they are! I hope you don't get more frost to slow down your lovely harvests.
ReplyDeleteMichelle, those do look very much alike, although I think I am leaning more toward a pepper I found online called Purple Ecuador, because the leaves of the plant are purple and the fruits are purple before they turn red if I remember what I saw at their house! I am going to have to check it again I think just to make sure. The size and stem and fruit look almost exactly alike between the fruit you mentioned and the one I found. You sure do know your stuff!
DeleteWhat? Frost already? It seems as though our wacky weather is continuing on into the fall! Crazy! Well, I'm glad you were able to protect everything and stretch out your harvest a bit! Congrats on your beautiful produce!
ReplyDeleteI love all the colorful veggies and raspberries. those sweet potatoes are really nice!
ReplyDeleteWow what a nice sweet potato harvest. I envy those of you who can grow them. We are just too cool too long to even give it a try.
ReplyDeleteNice sweet potato harvest, I'm growing a pot of sweet potato leaves for greens, wonder there's any tubers in there, I'll wait until frost before emptying the pot.
ReplyDeleteCute tiny peppers.b Congrats on your sweet potatoes - they look perfect. I grew them last year for the first time and got a couple of huge ones and the rest were really skinny and not really worth the trouble. The big ones were great though. I'm going to try them again this year as I did enjoy growing them.
ReplyDeleteJuicy red fruits! Hope your harvest will keep on rolling into the kitchen this autumn. Congratulation on sweet potatoes looks really good.
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