October 17th Harvest

      I have not written a post in so long, I may not remember how to do the picture pasting.  At least the garden did not forget how to produce.  But on October 17th, this picking is getting to be near the end. Maybe frost will hold off some more.

      Wow, what a haul for the middle of October.  I had great success with the peppers that I grew in the compost pile at the park.  The elevated peppers did much better than those in the ground, and also better than those in pots.  Will certainly repeat that experiment next year.

       Here is everything spread out.  The cubanelle peppers are on the left as well as the one orange cubanelle on the right.  The near to the last of the large tomatoes are in the upper middle, with the chocolate cherries just below them.  The pretty red balls just below the cherries are sweet cherry peppers.  New to me this year, they have kind of a smoky flavor.  I have kept some of the abundant seeds for next crop in 2018.   On the right are four bell peppers.  The long yellow peppers are sweet, and similar to banana peppers.  Sorry to see it all the fresh produce nearing an end.
      The ten day forecast shows no indication of frost, so there just might be a chance to pick summer veggies into November!

Cubanelle Peppers

      I started many different kinds of peppers by seed back in January, and lo and behold, I have had great pepper success.  One pepper that I was looking forward to was the Cubanelle, a sweet pepper that grows long and turns red when ripe.  They have been great in the green stage, but I quit picking them green to get some reds ones.  Cubanelles have thin walls, so I suggested to my wife that they would be a good candidate to stuff raw, then just eat the whole pepper.  So last night, we tried that.

Four Cubanelles, one Carnival Pepper

        I love ground turkey cooked with taco seasoning.  We put the turkey in the Cubanelle shells and chowed down.  Boy was it good.

      The fresh cukes are from the garden, as well as the yellow Dr. Wyche tomato.  And the Cubanelle peppers were sweet down to the last bite.  We be doing this again real soon.