Picture heavy.....

Frost burn; happened on Sept 8th and again last night.

I think Cortney said she counted approximately 29 pumpkins from six Cinderella Pumpkin plants

Radish gone to seed, for seed collection    :o)

Flat Dutch Cabbage, this is our smallest head, the rest are 1/3 larger than this one! Can anyone say...

Sauerkraut and Freezer slaw*wink* Of course we'll store 3-4 head in the cellar too.

Our Red Cabbage, isn't it beautiful? We like this made into a spiced Red Cabbage, canned.

Eggplant anyone?

They are in hiding and you want to be careful of the thorns, Ouch!

Do you see four? Now keep in mind that we've already harvested two off this plant already. That is Creeping Thyme in the photo too.

Purple peppers, sadly they turn green when cooked.

95% of our Chinese Giant Bell peppers are HUGE! They will make beautiful stuffed peppers( they freeze beautifully and

the smaller peppers we'll chop and freeze.

These tomatoes are White Tomesol, and when ripe will be snow white.

Watermelon Beefsteak, wonderful for sauces, as they are mostly pulp with little juice.

Golden Torches, these are a low acid tomato

Evergreen Tomato, works well for Green Tomato Preserves, as well as Fried Green Tomatoes

Brandywine tomatoes

Bee Balm, funny thing is we've tried to grow this for 3 years outside without any success, but it seems it loves our greenhouse.

It's a JUNGLE! The poor wooden stakes we typically use to stake our tomatoes, well... many have broken due to the weight and height of the tomatoes this year. The potted tomatoe plants did not get as large and neither did their fruit, taking note of this!

You can see one tomato plant standing tall, well just to the right of that plant, a tomato plant was almost 8ft tall, until it broke it's stake is now propped up to keep from breaking the stem. We're going to have to revamp our staking method for next year.

Our Kale, swiss chard( to the far left of the kale) and spinach( in the background) Psssst... don't look at the weeds*wink*, they've gotten away from us while we're harvesting and preserving.

Close up of our spinach, this really isn't a typical spinach. This spinach is called; New Zealand Spinach and it is a periennal. It doesn't bolt early, goes to seed late in Fall, for easy seed collection, freezes well and has a wonderfully mild flavor, whether cooked or eaten raw in a salad.

Our Painted Mountain Corn, we've collected some beautiful ears. Ranging from blood red to pink and purple and all colors inbetween

As we harvest them we'll get pictures of the variety of colors. It's so fun shucking them, you never know what color combination you'll find. We grow these to sell as decorations, to grind for meal and to feed to our poultry in the winter months. This corn has a protien content of 18-22%, so is a good source of protien. We've even semi popped( by cooking the kernels in hot oil or butter until the slightly pop) it's a tastey treat :o)

Okay this weeks list of things to do;

                            Process a case of peaches into jam, butter and canned peach

Pick plums and make jam,butter and jelly

                 Harvest cabbage for Kraut and Spicey Red Cabbage

Continue dehydrating zucchini

   Pick raspberries( most likely twice this week)

                           Finish harvesting the corn, shucking back,and bundling to dry

Dig the corn stalks for feeding to cows

Harvest and freeze peppers

                                         Remove pepper plants, work soil, add compost and plant salad crops in greenhouse

                                               Finish priming and painting greenhouse, soffit on the garage and if I have time, scrape and sand the garage trim, prime and paint.

Okay to be realistic, if we get 7 of the ten done I'll be thrilled, because this is added to; Laundry, Chores, Cooking Meals, Errands,Cleaning the House, etc........

So if you don't see a post this week, you'll know why *wink*