November: A Time For Harvest

We had a frost (or two) a few days ago, and there is a pretty good nip in the air these days, so this morning I decided to bring in all the remaining Bell Peppers on my remaining Pepper plant.

I had already pulled one crop of peppers off of this plant (About five small-to-medium peppers), and, as I started cutting the fruit off, I was actually quite amazed at the haul. I pulled another Ten!

Last year was the first ever I tried my hand at vegetable gardening, but I started too late in the summer to have any results. This year's was my first successful garden.

I ended up with:

• Uncountable hundreds of Roma Tomatoes (these plants will simply not die!)
  
• About a dozen "German Red Strawberry" Tomatoes
• Two pretty big Watermelons (next year I will try to remember to weigh them.)
• Two Horrible Looking, Twisted, Greenish-Gray, Carrots
• About half a dozen decorative "Jack-Be-Little" Pumpkins about the size of my fist. (I still have two of them that turned out really pretty.)
  
• Three or four salads worth of Great Lakes Lettuce, Black-Seeded Simpson Lettuce, and Endive (which is correctly pronounced "On-Deeve", by the way.)
  
• More Swiss Chard than I knew what to do with (I tried a pesto recipe, but it turned out terribly)
• One Artichoke Plant that is still, amazingly enough, alive, even though it has no chance of surviving the winter to produce fruit next spring. There is a reason they grow these in California!

And now I can Add to the list, The (probably) Final Fruit of my garden, more than a dozen Bell Peppers! Here are the last eleven, fresh picked this morning!

Now, if I only liked Eating peppers!

Until Next Post,
Proud PlantDaddy, Frank Gibson, Signing Out!