Isn't "harvest" a great fall word!? Well I had the opportunity to harvest mostly everything from my garden. I harvested 3 bell peppers, 1 jalopeno (there are two more growing), a bunch of cherry and regular tomatoes, 8 cucumbers, some little onions, a couple green beans, and I have yet to harvest 3 Zucchini, 2 pumpkins, and a bunch of green onions and spinach! Yay! Next year our garden will be even bigger and I will plant mint so that I can dry it and make mint tea. It is the best for unsettled stomachs as well as cinnamon tea with straight cinnamon. But it would be even cooler if I used a cinnamon stick. I wonder if I could grow cinnamon...hm. We also have a chestnut tree in our backyard! So Grant likes to gather, count, and throw them but I will bring them in and "roast" them. Maybe I will find a good recipe, or maybe I will save the roasted ones for Christmas and feel so festive singing "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"!
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| He's got a mission to water everything! |
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| Pumpkin. If it doesn't freeze this might get orange. |
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| Chestnuts. |
Other harvests include pulling my dill and I am currently drying them. I will use that in lots of delicious things. Especially swedish potatoes. Just boil potatoes with dill and butter and mmmm mmm! My mom and I also found a listing for free apples. They were in a person's backyard. We got about 1.5 apple boxes worth of small apples. They are golden delicious type. I have lots of cider, caramel apples, and apple pies and breads to make! I am so excited. We also spotted some unclaimed Concord grapes! They taste just like grape juice! Amazingly sweet and rich. Grant loves them. He will eat it but spit out the seeds lol. I think he thinks they are blueberries but he knows they are called grapes. Anyway, we got a bunch of those. So now I am overflowing with produce. Its a wonderful feeling. I won't have to buy much this pay-period with all this food lying around. I forgot to mention that my mom also spotted a Plum and Pear free u-pick around the corner from my house so I have a bunch of those too. MMmmm.
3 comments:
Your garden is amazing! I was expecting cute little veggies, but you have a bunch of huge, delicious looking things!! I'm so jealous! You look so at home!
Great job farmer Rachel! I wish I could eat all the delicious things you are planning on making!
By the way, the lady who used to own this house said that the chestnuts are poisonous. So we probably shouldn't eat them.
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