Garden bounty

[Ranger]

We have a driveway (road) that I made to run all the way straight to the rear of the property. On the right side is all garden, left side is house and future gardens.
Front


Rear

In the garden right now are

Peaches (very sweet)

Pears (almost ready)

Tomatoes

Cilantro

Corn (super sweet)

Strawberries

Cucumbers

Grapes

Garlic chives

Summer squash


There is Potatoes, peppers and many other herbs scattered around as well.
There are some nice chile peppers in near the tomatoes

[Rissask]

Good for you. That's a lot of work, huh.

I have a smallish garden (only 2 of us) but my mom has a huge one and I get lots of stuff from her.
My garden did spectacularly well this year! All that heat we had in July.

Cucumbers and peppers did particularly well. Had tons of carrots too.

I am not sure what I will do with all the hot peppers actually, I have too many. From three plants! Freeze a bunch I guess.

It was supposed to get down to 3C with a risk of frost last night, so covered the tomatoes and cukes. It is WAY too early to be starting to have to cover things.

[caramba]

Nice! I miss having all the fresh fruit I want since Brian's not at the orchard any longer.
And since we just moved we only have a very small, sad-looking garden at my father's house this year. But it looks like we're going to have a bumper crop of tomatillos!

[Ranger]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Good for you. That's a lot of work, huh.

I have a smallish garden (only 2 of us) but my mom has a huge one and I get lots of stuff from her.
My garden did spectacularly well this year! All that heat we had in July.

Cucumbers and peppers did particularly well. Had tons of carrots too.

I am not sure what I will do with all the hot peppers actually, I have too many. From three plants! Freeze a bunch I guess.

It was supposed to get down to 3C with a risk of frost last night, so covered the tomatoes and cukes. It is WAY too early to be starting to have to cover things.

How about "hot pepper jelly" it's very easy and great on crackers with cream cheese, my wife makes it every year. I'll have her post the recipe.

[caramba]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Good for you. That's a lot of work, huh.

I have a smallish garden (only 2 of us) but my mom has a huge one and I get lots of stuff from her.
My garden did spectacularly well this year! All that heat we had in July.

Cucumbers and peppers did particularly well. Had tons of carrots too.

I am not sure what I will do with all the hot peppers actually, I have too many. From three plants! Freeze a bunch I guess.
It was supposed to get down to 3C with a risk of frost last night, so covered the tomatoes and cukes. It is WAY too early to be starting to have to cover things.

If they are thin-skinned hot peppers you can dry them out and hang them like ristras, or grind them when dried in a blender or food processor to make hot pepper flakes. I did that one year that we ended up with a ton of them, and put some of the flakes in little bottles and gave them to my friends at Christmas. They were a big hit!

[caramba]

Originally Posted by Ranger

How about "hot pepper jelly" it's very easy and great on crackers with cream cheese, my wife makes it every year. I'll have her post the recipe.

I'd love that too!

[caramba]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Good for you. That's a lot of work, huh.

I have a smallish garden (only 2 of us) but my mom has a huge one and I get lots of stuff from her.
My garden did spectacularly well this year! All that heat we had in July.

Cucumbers and peppers did particularly well. Had tons of carrots too.

I am not sure what I will do with all the hot peppers actually, I have too many. From three plants! Freeze a bunch I guess.

It was supposed to get down to 3C with a risk of frost last night, so covered the tomatoes and cukes. It is WAY too early to be starting to have to cover things.

Yikes! In August!

[ami]

Nice! I have a few planter boxes with lettuce, green onions, peppers, and some other stuff. The birds keep eating all my tomatoes though

[TAPPY]

I love your property & garden - it looks wonderful.
I know it is lots of work but you must love it.
When I retire I will have a big garden again.

I do want that hot pepper jelly recipe !!!

[Rissask]

Thanks Ranger. Actually, my mom makes that jalapeno jelly, both red and green.
But she has tons of her own peppers, and she gives me enough jars every year, that there is no use me making any (yes, I am spoiled ).

We eat it on crackers or bagels with cream cheese too. Also I use the red kind as a chicken marinade in the oven. (Mom puts ginger in her red pepper jelly too, it's good with ginger.)

Originally Posted by caramba

Yikes! In August!

Tell me about it! We have been having an unusually cool spell here lately. But it should warm up and we should get a nice Indian summer still...the farmers are hoping anyway.

[TAPPY]

Riss - you can also dry the peppers. You put them on a cookie sheet in a low temp oven. (I am sure there are more technical recipes for this on the web).

We have also made ours into Christmas wreaths.

[BonnyW]

Very nice garden, Ranger!

My veggie garden is small, but it supplies us well. This summer I grew onions (green and white), chives, mint(s), super-sweet white corn, red & green peppers, 3 types of tomatoes, broccoli and Anaheim chilies-great for chili rellenos (which we will have for dinner on Monday). We ate the last of the corn the other day though....

Our ravenous snails seem to have a certain taste for zucchini and any squash or melon. They ate every plant-big, small, seedling.....

[Rissask]

Originally Posted by TAPPY

Riss - you can also dry the peppers. You put them on a cookie sheet in a low temp oven. (I am sure there are more technical recipes for this on the web).

We have also made ours into Christmas wreaths.

Nice idea Taps. Yeah, I will do that and freeze some for chili and spaghetti sauce, etc.

Snails in a garden?? Can you eat them (escargot gardening ).

We get frogs in yard....but no snails.

[Ranger]

Originally Posted by TAPPY

Riss - you can also dry the peppers. You put them on a cookie sheet in a low temp oven. (I am sure there are more technical recipes for this on the web).

We have also made ours into Christmas wreaths.

You can just string them with needle and thread thru woody stem and hang in the house, just leave the needle on and add to it as they ripen in the garden. I've done it many times. They do dry properly and do not rot.

[SunKneeMarie]

gimme dat corn