Last of the Summer Harvest

(Before It's News)

Although we haven’t had an official first frost yet, I did discover frost damage on the tomatoes and okra the other day. I figured it was time to bring in the rest of the summer harvest.

Amish paste tomatoes

I got about two gallons of tomatoes, mostly green mostly small. If they were larger I would can more sliced green tomatoes for frying. That was a yummy way to preserve them. Being small, I’ll either make more green tomato jam or a sweet pickle.

Orange bulldog pumpkins

Two pumpkins! I got two pumpkins. Pretty ones too. Not very big, but better than years past.

Hales best cantaloupes

I found two more cantaloupes. They didn’t get very big because cold weather is closing in on us and they like heat. Amazingly they were pretty tasty anyway. I’ve already saved some cantaloupe seed, so the chickens got these scoopings.

Vardaman sweet potatoes

This is not even half of the sweet potatoes. I didn’t get many white potatoes, and so am thankful for these. We eat some, the goats get some, and I give some away.

Lastly, rugosa rose hips.

Rugosa Rose Hips

I harvested the first hips a couple months ago and laid them out to dry in the pantry. Unfortunately, pantry moths demolished them! Hopefully this batch will do better.

[UPDATE 12 Nov] I was pulling out amaranth stalks in the garden this morning and remembered I didn’t include a photo of my amaranth harvest. Here it is…

Golden Giant amaranth

I didn’t get a lot, but it’s enough for treats for the chickens.

Now I’m waiting for the fall garden to come in. We haven’t had much rain for the past month, so it’s been slow. More on that soon.

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