What are you harvesting -Fall 2014

[rainbowgardener]

Usually I pick them green, but a few of them got missed and I didn't see them until they were red ripe. So yes I have a few red ripe and a bunch of green.

[pepperhead212]

Besides the large numbers of peppers and eggplants still coming from the garden, I am getting a bunch of tomatillos, as well. I had so many green beans this summer that I stopped picking them and left the rest out there to mature into dry beans (something I have rarely done), so there are a lot of those out there. And just before a freeze is eminent, I will dig up my clusters of lemongrass. As for fall veggies, I am only harvesting lettuce, so far, as I had a problem with seedlings. However, very soon I will have bok choy, yu choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna, senposai, kohlrabi, and a few other things out there, as they are pushing up the cover out there really good!

[imafan26]

Bear's limes, meyer lemons, and Satsuma tangerines are falling off the trees. The birds are harvesting my tomatoes for me. I have only gotten a few. I see the green ones, but they are gone before I see them color up.

I dug up some horseradish, it was a lot of work.

I dug up the arrowroot because it was time to renew it. It is too much work to process it so I buy mine in a bottle.

[catgrass]

I've cut some bok choi (love that stuff), still got bell peppers going, cherry tomatoes still going and yesterday I saw I have 3-4 eggplant coming in. Getting some cooler temps this weekend-nighttime lows will be in low 50's for a few days. yuk-I hate winter.

[digitS']

More Brussels sprouts ...

Another attempt to find some way to like them begins today.

I think I'll start with a nifty rhubarb and tomato ketchup recipe, tho . Move on from there ...

Steve

[rainbowgardener]

I keep forgetting to mention, along with all the above, I have ONE bunch of celery that keeps producing and producing long after all the others bit the dust. And I just harvested one butternut squash, that is my whole squash crop!

[Gary350]

I am harvesting water melons. Lots of big long green striped melons. I have been trying to eat a water melon every day but over dosed and had to quit. LOL.

Bell peppers are starting to do better now that the weather is cooled down to 80 deg. Each of the 9 plants have about 50 golf ball size bell peppers. In a few months peppers will be the size of grape fruits just like they were last year.

Tomatoes were looking BAD but are starting to look better. I am going to leave these plants along and plant a few new plants from seeds. I think the new plants will do better and be making nice big tomatoes about January or February.

[rainbowgardener]

sigh.... January tomatoes in the garden! Long about mid to late Jan, my garden is likely to be buried in snow and temps in the negative numbers...

Any of you southern folks looking to hire a garden helper?

[applestar]

Harvested my Sunchokes today
Maybe it's because I didn't get around to harvesting last year, but the tubers are really nice size this year. The ground was somewhat wet and this area is full of clay and earthworm muck. They do clean up nicely. I believe most of mine are white fuseau...

but when I sorted them, I found some that are extra knobby and some that are darker in color.

[pepperhead212]

Great sunchokes, applestar! It must be the two year growth - I tried them once, and really didn't get much at all, so never tried them again.

I harvested my lemongrass today, since it is supposed to freeze soon. I harvested more peppers today, even though I had given up on them the last time it was supposed to get very cold here, I think about 9 days ago. I picked what I could, and just left the rest out there, figuring I had enough already. In just that amount of time, many of them grew much larger, and many have ripened, as well. That Mustard habanero in the earthbox was the most unbelievable, giving me 4 more quarts of full sized peppers, after picking all those last time.

[digitS']

Oh Heavens! How do you ever "stop" trying sunchokes?

I used to have them at another home. Or at least, the elderly neighbor had them. Or, it may have been her father ... great, nutty flavor.

DW planted some. I warned her! She couldn't come up with much to do with them so, there were less sunchokes this year. But, they showed up on the other side of the fence and the neighbor asked about them. I warned her! I see she didn't try to take them out ..!

We got the rest of the kale this week. It was supposed to be 11ºf this morning but I think it only got down to 15º. Thank Heavens the wind stopped! Garden is to bed. I just hope the ground thaws so that I can get several fence posts in soon.

Steve

[bcallaha]

I've been cutting our fall broccoli. We have been in the deep freeze the past week, and now we have snow. I still have 25 or so plants to cut the main head!! We've had some fresh broccoli, but mainly freezing it.

[catgrass]

Still cutting some bok choy. Cut the first head of broccoli yesterday, but my neighbor kiddies took it home to eat with Ranch dip. Will have some more to cut tomorrow!

[imafan26]

I harvested some thinnings of red romaine and won bok. One friend gave me a papaya and another gave me an avocado and the satsuma mandarins are falling off the tree so I am giving away bags of them.

[applestar]

I would love to reach a long arm and have one of those bags of satsuma!
...sounds like you have a lovely exchange going on... Enjoy!