2007 Garden End

Well that ends the 2007 garden. The frost has come and the first light snow has fallen. All of the dead plants have been removed in preparation of next year. Over all a good year. Defiantly had too many tomatoes. Next year we will grow less and be predominately heirloom and Roma. The peppers came on strong too late in the year and were snuffed out prematurely by the cold. The tomatillos were and experience (one that will not be repeated) they taste awful and took over the garden. Now it is on to next year.



Garden cleaned out



(except for the last few carrots)



Garlic planted for next year.



Containers cleaned out

Green tomatoes

The frost is suppose to come tonight so all of the green tomatoes Had to come off. The tomatoes are finaly done;-) !

Note to self- grow less tomatoes next year.

Peppers

Purple peppers taking off ... finally



Yellow peppers taking off ... finally



Probably the last good pepper harvest of the year.

Note to self - start peppers earlier next year.

Hot Peppers !

Jalapeno peppers turning red





cayenne and banana peppers finally taking off

Hot pepper hound

While we were making salsa the dog kept wining so I thought I would be fun to see how the dog reacted to a hot pepper. Well she actually liked it and ended up eating about half a dozen before day was through. This last one she almost took off my fingers!

Salsa verde

More striped Tomatoes



Even more tomatoes (mostly romas as they got a later stare than the others)
These well be used to make even more salsa with a small amount of tomatillos mixed in.



tomatillos with the husks removed



making salsa verde. We used about half of the tomatillos and peppers to make the salsa verde. We then ended up throwing it away. It was extremely disgusting (tasted and looked like snot).

Peppers

The Peppers are about the only thing that is still going strong in the garden


Finally the cayenne peppers are ripe


green and red jalapenos and a purple pepper


Lone cayenne pepper


Ready for drying

Mutant vegetables

Huge been


Mutant cucumbers



Mutant carrot

Peck of peppers for pickling

Well not quit a peck but enough for a 2 small jars

Last major tomato picking, (hopefully)

This should be the last major tomato picking. these tomatoes will be divided up to make sauce salsa and tomato paste.  I am getting sick of tomatoes by now!

Baby Garlic

This is all of the garlic that we got this year. The garlic started out good but died down mid summer. Even though we did not get much the garlic is good and very strong.

Mantis

Official mascot of the mantis garden.