Late Summer Garden Harvest

This garden year hasn't been as fruitful. I was able to harvest some greens early summer, but late summer garden has only provided a couple batches of beans and cucumbers. 

I will say, though, the canned beans and pickled cucumbers will last me until next garden year.

Here are a couple pictures over last month's garden harvests.

August 15, 2023 

Wednesday, September 6th 2023

Canning Pear "butter", & harvesting potatoes & figs

Potato harvest

Pear sauce

Canning pears

Pear butter

Fig heart

Grape jelly from the fall food forest!

Canning yummy garden food & pictures of beautiful harvests

To all my garden lovers, I haven't been on in weeks because I've been busy doing work with my advocacy group, I went to a weekend worshop on advocacy through anti oppression framework; I got a job at a domestic violence center; and I've been taking care of my granny who is in the hospital for cellulitis. 

But anyway, I have many pictures of my garden harvests and I've been eating well thanks to the bounty of garden food.

Figs growing steadily

Hot pepper jelly with jalapenos, cayenne, and some hot yellow pepper (cubanelle or hungarian)

Scrumptious garden food into salsa & spaghetti sauce

I have been quite busy outside of the garden work. But in my down time, I'm watering the garden, hoeing, weeding, harvesting and canning.

Lately I have been picking and stringing beans from the garden. My family has been gracious enough to help, and even grandma is canning beans for me. In exchange, she gets all the beans she wants.

Patty pan squash, beans & potatoes for canning 

Beans canned 

Beans & potatoes canned, spaghetti sauce & pickled cucumbers/peppers 

Of course the tomatoes, peppers, and herbs from the garden are going to making salsa, spaghetti sauce or salads.

I turned these into salsa minus the cucumbers 

Here is the salsa, more tomatoes & carrots 

I turned these herbs, tomatoes & peppers into spaghetti sauce 

Here's the spaghetti sauce & pickled cucumbers/peppers 

Making pickles & admiring the rustic aesthetic of the garden

Garlic cloves, dill seed, mustard seed, and peppercorns with the pickles 

Melons and tomatoes 

Cucumbers and beans 

Besides the flowers, everything in the garden was started with seed I planted 

All the tomatoes were started from seed and the basil too 

I can't believe I started these peppers from seed, most the time I never have luck