Second Comings in an October Garden

  late october warm weather brought on a second crop of many things including zucchini 

red romaine going to seed 

jalapenos! 

i've been collecting purple bean seeds for a few weeks, now the plants are reflowering and creating new baby beans. awesome 

new basil leaves. what a treat 

green bean flowers and new beans 

baby lemon squashes and flowers 

lots of flowers still blooming, and producing tonnes of seed  

red stalk celery. i grow it basically for the herby deliciousness of it all 

harvests

some tomatoes still growing strong on the vine. in late october. oh my 

one of the last bouquets from the garden 

cleaned up garden 

Last Big Harvest - November

loads of carrots, some romanesco, cabbage, herbs & kale 

romanesco growing up. this sight made me oh so happy

purple cabbage and fall leaves. gorgeous
and delicious

carrots

Late Fall Tomato & Pepper Harvests

Despite many september frost warnings, and October touches of frost, tomatoes continued to ripen on my table well into mid-November

lots of peppers picked green ripening beautifully on my coffee table 

hot peppers: bulgarian carrot, jalapenos, and garden sunshine  

gorgeous peppers ripening in fall sunshine 

lots of basil! it's off to the Night Kitchen for their pesto. Grown & eaten on hunter st. 

Adventures in Canning

wasabi pickled beans! wasabi, ginger, garlic, beans, soy sauce & rice vinegar

tomato salsa 

pickled beans 

pickling beans 

pickles! 

peach salsa!  

making peach salsa 

pickled beets & carrots of many varieties. gorgeous 

 wines preserved in jameson's & honey: who knew such perfect concoctions existed.

 plums in red wine. another delicious idea 

 pears in jameson's and red wine. mmmmmm 

before (above) and after the hot water bath 

plums in red wine. they look like lovely lips 

paste tomatoes for ketchup making

seed saving and ketchup making 

 boiling down some pretty delicious from my garden & then put through a mill to make this amazing ketchup.

made my own ketchup. so so good

 lovely sunset to accompany the canning fun

peach jalapeno salsa & bourbon peaches. looking forward to the taste of summer; in a winter

cleaning basil for pesto. the smell is heavenly 

salsa and pesto 

canning apple cider. so exciting. i had no idea you could even do this

two types of pickled carrots. i love these coloured carrots, happy to have them in my pantry this winter