***What's growing? The official garden thread***

Loujoe

The birds will eat them too.

lastexitlondon

My Italian girlfriend/ partner made fig preserve from her dads glut of figs. Very nice . Only sugar and figs

Loujoe

Sounds great. Love fresh figs.

Loujoe

lots of hot peppers from my garden. Got some beat up peaches, sugar, lemon. Really great.

lastexitlondon

Well done lou takes a lot of work

Loujoe

Thanks. It's really satisfying. Probably give a lot away. I am excited I figured out how to enjoy/preserve piles of hot peppers.

Loujoe

Loujoe

Easy refrigerator pickles. Onion, cucs, hot peppers stringbeans onions dill. Vinegar sugar water a little salt. Let it sit a bit. So fresh and yummy.

lastexitlondon

I may have to try  that. I have all those  ready.

lastexitlondon

Loujoe

^^^Nice. Really easy. Just do it to taste and enjoy. Throw whatever in there and eat it within like 3-weeks. They won't last forever. You can tell when they start to go bad. 

Purple Fairy Tree

Tomatoes 

Loujoe

Bump for harvest time.
Whachagot?

lastexitlondon

1 million tomato.  I found i loved roma toms the  most. 1st time growing them and a wonderful crop

Loujoe

Nice. I think I'll try them next season.

 I'm getting lots of tomatoes. Did a green zebra one and it's great low acid. I might cook up a batch of salsa later. Never made it before but trying to think of creative ways to keep up with the harvest. Pole beans doing great too. Cucumbers still producing and some peppers. 
Planted turnip seeds in 8/27 and they have sprouted. Should be a good fall crop. Pumpkin patch has 1 and lots of flowers. 1 pumkin out of about 10 plants. Not a great yield but just growing them for fun.

Loujoe

Loujoe

Lou's best peach, charred 7 pepper, heirloom tomato salsa.

 Used chili, red and purple bell, jalapino, hungarian hots, cowhorn, some other peppers. Green zebra, yellow german stripey, dark star, celebrity, cherry, berry tomatoes. A couple onions, sugar vinigar, salt pepper, garlic. It's killer. A little sweet with a nice hot after-burn. 'Pats self on back'

lastexitlondon

Well done that effort  is something  im jealous of.  Wonderful

Loujoe

All good man. I have fun with it. I attack it in little stages. So what could take a focused couple hours gets spread though the day. Chop stuff, let it sit. Chop more stuff...do stuff i need to. Then it all comes together. 

lastexitlondon

Beautiful  to use it all. I hate when my stuff goes off from my laziness that  took months of nurture to grow. Then i fail  at the vital using it up stage

Loujoe

carrots slowly getting there. A lot of stuff goes to waste, but I see it as feeding the decomposers. Not really waste. Just not used by me. Back to nature.

Loujoe

Loujoe

Loujoe

Frost hit my plot so had a bunch of green tomatoes and a pile of peppers. First time I made green tomato salsa. I've become a salsa madman. It's really good. Still have some green tomatoes. Maybe do fried tomatoes.
Cleaned up my plot at home. Still have turnips and carrots growing. They don't mind a light frost. 

markymark550

Love grilled peppers. Those look delicious! 

Loujoe

Yes. They are super yummy. Get sweeter while they burn. I chopped them up and added to the salsa. That charred stuff adds a great layer of flavor. I am a salsa god!

Loujoe

Even dropped a few in the fire trying to get them off. Nice and ashy.

Loujoe

frosty turnip green snack and carrots going to my bud

lastexitlondon

Beautiful 

Loujoe