Fall Harvest, Probably One of the Last

I've been so amazed with our fall harvests. The bell peppers are still producing even though it's been in the 50s all week. Nights drop down to the 40s. But, we are still harvesting bell peppers, and I also harvested for the first time some mustard greens.  Not much, since the bugs keep eating all the leaves, but I was able to harvest a handful of leaves that weren't eaten up.  They are really peppery tasting. I don't know how much longer before our first frost hits and kills off the rest of the vegetable plants so I have to savor the harvests while I can.

But, by far the best producing plant has been the giant habanero.  It just amazes me how many little peppers I harvested from this plant.  Before I brought the plant inside, I harvested 24 habaneros.  Just amazing!  The pole beans are still producing like mad and I picked my first fall radish.  Nice! And check this out, when I was clearing the tomato plants to put in the compost, I found an heirloom tomato growing! How about that??

I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these habaneros.  I mean, they are hot, hot, hot peppers.  I saw my neighbor the other day when I dug up my habanero plant and she saw me wheeling around the giant plant in my wheelbarrow.  LOL.   (so embarassing)  I shouted to her from across the street, "hey Liz, do you like hot peppers?"  She said yes, so I unloaded a dozen habaneros into her hands.  Score.  One of the coolest thing about habaneros is that even though I picked these peppers when they were green, 3 days later they turned colors!!  From one plant, you can get orange, yellow and red peppers.  So awesome!!  Does anyone know, can you freeze these whole?

For more fall harvests, visit Daphne Dandelions.

Sustainable Seed Company

A couple of days ago, the seeds I ordered from Sustainable Seed Company came in the mail. Thanks "Garden Now Think Later" for telling us about this AWESOME seed company. After I read her post, I looked at the website, and I love their seed pledge. This is definitely a company I want to support! I took advantage of the great half off sale they were having. I picked up seeds for echinacea that I want to grow next year. Has anyone ever grown Black Eyed Susans and Coneflower from seed? Is it hard to germinate? For the fall crops, I bought Cherry Belle and French Breakfast radishes and some buttercrunch lettuce. I hate radishes, but my husband eats them like candy. I think they are too peppery for my taste.

My seed box is growing! I had to upgrade to a bigger box! Since there are more than enough seeds in the new packets, if anyone wants to do a seed exchange for any of the radishes, lettuce or flowers, let me know!