The little vegetable garden that could is still coming through for us in late September/early October!
We are still harvesting cherry tomatoes even if they have been on the vine a bit too long, but stewed up on burgers, they taste oh so sweet for September.
And the peppers! We did it! Well, they did it for us! I went out on Wednesday and there it was, a red orb hanging off the plant. Sophie meanwhile grabbed at the yellow paper and plucked it - and the green one that really really was about to turn yellow if given another 48 hours. But it was the red one that rendered me speechless. Our little garden had produced this beauty - for us.
But wonders never cease. The trio of peppers sat as the kitchen table centrepiece for 2 days. Then Sebastian came roaring up the stairs one morning with a yellowy-green capsicum in his hands. Our green one knew we prefered yellow and was changing hues off the plant. It seems so brutal to chop them up and consume them; so I am hoping we can honour them through a true harvest meal in the next day or 2.
The photos were taken last Wednesday and the weather has turned chilly since then. But we peek out every day to see if the tomatoes are struggling onward or the last sunflower has toppled or our 1 pumpkin is starting to look anything remotely like an orange-coloured carver.
1 comment:
what a beautiful and bountiful garden!!!!
if frost is imminent, pull the tomato plants up by the roots and hang them upside down in the dark. the green tomatoes will ripen and can be used as they do. i did this one year and had my last tomato in november! (only works with tomatoes, as far as I know)
hugs and love
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