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. 

Better late than never; fall harvest photos!

romanesco! i have been trying to grow this for years. 

late fall kale & chard

purple barley field testing 

i really really love funny shaped carrots 

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late fall tomatoes 

late october jalapenos!what a treat after many frost warnings & garden coverings 

drunken frizzy headed women lettuce creating seed for next year! 

fall crocuses 

lettuce putting out seeds & my awesome cowboy boots 

cilantro seed

squash producing new flowers in october 

potato harvest! 

what a carrot

lovely mixed carrots from the garden 

root crops 

collecting chocolate pepper seeds 

late october harvest; so beautiful 

harvesting golden beets   

big old white carrot 

greens & lettuce growing seeds

beet seeds growing 

red romaine bolting, will flower soon & create seeds 

mustard seed pods about to fill with seeds 

coriander putting out lots of seeds 

drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce putting out tonnes of flowers from which will come lots of seed

speckled lettuce bolting & creating seeds

Saving Tomato Seeds

select fresh ripe heirloom tomatoes 

gather like varieties (they will need to be grown in isolation for true purity). they need to fully ripe and can even be over ripe. cut in half & squeeze the seeds and "goo" into a jar. 

lablel! you can set aside the unused tomatoes for salsa, sauce or whatever you like :) 

fermented seeds; fill jars with water. viable seeds sink, mould & gross floats :) 

after jars are filled with water, and mould poured off the top for the third time, the water starts to get much clearer

fermented seeds filled with the water for the second time.

rinse off seeds 

let dry on a screen in a cool dark place