First Fig of the year, sweet potatoes, Pear, carrots & Apple Fall Fest

First fig of the season 

Sweet potato & carrot harvest 

Odd shaped pear fruit 

Fruit trees in fall

This passed weekend, I worked outside diligently cleaning the shed, the porch, and trying to decorate for fall and halloween. In fact, I put up some of my usual decorations today. Sunday I went to an apple festival in my area and bought cider and a bag of McIntosh apples. 

Pepper & potato harvest, fall scene & scarecrow in the food forest

In my spare time, I'm picking veggies from the garden and decoratung for fall.

The last of the peppers, going to be used for garden pizza  

Potato harvest today from the grow bags, and I'm going to make some hashbrown & soup  

Some of the gourds I purchased and some I grew, like the cushaw and patty pan squash,
Most of my pumpkins and gourds have already rotted so I added some from the greenhouse
I went to today, and I also decorated my grandparents fall scene  

Here I decorated my grandparents porch

Figs growing, Popcorn plant, & fall flower & Basil garden

Canna flower 

The figs haven't been as prolific this year compared to last  

But these two fig trees are loaded with fruits so I hope they ripen before the first frost

This Cassia plant really smells like popcorn and it's another
tropical plant I'm growing Kentucky  

I have a basil garden I need to harvest soon as well 

As I was taking photos, I stumbled upon these morning glories 

The color of the morning glories have a beautiful shine

There are many beautiful flowers in the fall garden, the ironweeds, goldenrods, aster, and herbs. Peppers and lettuce are still growing so I'm still eating a little out of the garden. There's a horned worm helping me eat the food too. I noticed many pepper and tomato plants with the tops chewed clean off.

That's what to expect in a garden, of course, and I have a rabbit too because I have noticed paths of rabbit dung and beds amongst the herbs, flowers and other weeds. The garden going into fall is still very much alive and well even though I'm eatjng significantly less food in the garden than a month ago. I have many herbs though I need to harvest, including the figs and pears if they ripen before the frost. 

Fall food Harvest from the gardens

More salsa canned with the garden peppers, tomatoes and herbs 

This is some of the last garden harvests of the summer, and today is the first of Fall. I didn't sow seed for the Fall but there are some cabbage and lettuce plants that might survive for the next month or two.

I have been picking lettuce sparingly in making my tofurky sandwiches to take to work. I'll miss the many dinners of fried fresh beans and peppers. I'm still harvesting potatoes as well, and tomorrow I need to dig more up from the ground and the potatoes from the grow bags. 

I have my fall scene up with pumpkins, foddershocks, gourds from the garden, and of course my cool scarecrows I've made in the past. I have to organize it again though because it looks like somebody or something attacked the scarecrow and smashing or eating the fall harvest.
Everybody is already putting out their fall scenes, because stores are putting out the displays and boxes of pumpkins out early. It's all very enticing too, but I'm going to try to resist buying any autumn and halloween decor. Save your money by growing your own fall harvest to display and DIY scarcrow for halloween!

Deliciously irresistible garden food (pictures) & meal ideas

With the garden lettuce & cherry tomatoes, I made a simple salad with poppy seed dressing 

Sweaty, muddy, well fed 

I'm going to make salsa with the tomatoes and peppers 

Gourds to decorate with for fall 

Huge cushaw 

Hibiscus flowers in my garden 

Cosmos and strawberry field flowers I sowed in pots 

With green peppers & potatoes from the garden, I made a hash brown this morning 

I even made soup with radishes and potatoes 

I fried beans with potatoes for dinner 

With carrots, I fry them with potatoes and make a fantastic soup 

Garden pizza & beaitiful garden harvests

I have been continually harvesting tomatoes, beans, and peppers. So I'm incorporating veggies in different ways. I have hot peppers in ramen, burritos, salsa, and even in spicy fried beans. Tomatoes are versatile because I eat them raw sliced as a side dish, in a sandwich, make salsa and spaghetti sauce as you have seen in past posts.

Braised tofu & fried garden beans with soy sauce, gochujang,
sugar & garden jalapenos & sliced garden tomatoes

Homemade pizza dough & garden pizza sauce with
vegan mozarella & garden peppets/tomatoes on top

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)