Well as I have been outside most of the Summer and not on the Stew a whole lot, today was a good day to do a little catching up. The "mis-labeled plants" was a little incentive to do so, and DH is gone for the day and I didn't have to make dinner so I loaded up a few of the pics I had on my camer and took a few more to share what has been going on here. greenhouse tomatoes ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) 3 of my rows of tomatoes. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) peppers ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Zucchini crop ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Numex twilight pepper ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Yummy peppers ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) "yellow submarine blush" ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Big Beef variety ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) bosque blue plant with fruit ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) bosque blue tomato ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Marizol Bratka tomato ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) mixed tomatoes ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Assorted toamtoes for market ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Rhubarb ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) purple aspargus ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Freedom apple ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Fall is coming ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) Giant Marconi pepper ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) This week I have my last Wednesday Market for the season. Maybe it will slow down a little now, but I don't think so. There is just so much to get done once the garden is done bearing. All the clean up starts in earnest. I already did the watermelons, the cantaloupe are next. Then the tomatoes in the greenhouse will come out and I will clean that up. The high tunnels will need to be cleaned out too. This is a great rainy day project. I still have about 10 rows of green beans that haven't started bearing yet... apples have started ripening and with 20 bearing trees this becomes a bit of labor intensive work. Lettuce needs to be planted for a fall crop. Work, work, work and then a little more. And I haven't even put anything up for us yet, there hasn't been time yet. soon, though.
Beautiful! Your customers are real lucky. I admire all the hard work you have done...and will be doing. My mouth is watering to try some of those tomatoes.
Oh boy my youngest lad (a vegan) would have been in heaven if he'd visited you. He loves tomatoes and peppers!! You have some wonderful looking varieties there Carolyn. I think I'll try some different coloured tomatoes next year after seeing the ones you've grown. I'll also keep a look out for some Numex twilight peppers. :-D
THIS is what I have been waiting for!! Good grief, Carolyn--you have done rather well, haven't you. What an interesting tomato selection you had for your customers. Lovely for the eye, and a size and flavour for everyone. I liked your account of things too. I know that you have still an enormous amount of work to do there with cleaning-up and winterizing...and more sales. I am in the middle of clean-up here as well (and I have a house guest at the moment). Anyway, thanks loads for this interesting and visually interesting posting. I hope that we get to hear much more from you as the season winds down and the winter begins. You always have such interesting posts.
Wow Carolyn, you have been busy and everything looks GREAT! Purple asparagus ... I had no idea there was such a thing!
Thanks Jewell, please stop by and I will feed you any of them... Some I loved others were just okay for flavor, but the color was interesting. Jerry, LOTS of work. weed, weed, weed, spray, prune, weed and weed and weed and water and weed and weed and water and fertilize and spray and weed...did I mention weeding? and pick, pack and take to market or sell at the road. Mart...well, I have Kevin helping and this past couple weeks I have had a friend of my daughters helping every now and then to earn a little cash. Eileen, Please send your son. I will let him try anything. Most of my varieties I grow for flavor, not because they look great, but they need to look good, too. I ordered the Bosque Blue and Yellow Submarine blush from http://jandlgardens.com/ in New Mexico. He is a grower/breeder and small seed vendor. I think he would send to you. The Numex Twilight peppers are from a seed swap, but I have seen them advertised in a few seed catalogs, too. Sjoerd, I am sorry it has taken me soooo long to get anything posted, I know you love to see what is going on over here...look through my farmers market garden for more, I think there is some there I didn't put in here. I hope you are having a decent season there this year. Is it better than last year? warmer, dryer? your season is so much shorter than ours. It amazes me. I still have another two months of growing weather and maybe a little longer if we don't get an early frost like we have had for the last two years. That is such a bummer, but it forces me to get everything finished then, except for the cole crops, lettuce etc. Thanks All. It has been a crazy busy Summer and now school is starting and my youngest is the only one left in school now, but I have to drive her to one class and then to college for the rest of her classes...oyvey, I can't wait until she drives for that....but I am already a little stressed at that thought, too. Netty, Purple asparagus is my favorite. I eat it raw in the garden when I am working out there and need a drink. It hits the spot. And it reminds me of garden peas....
Hi Carolyn,..beautiful selection of Tomatoes,..very water mouthing,..and such colours,..delighted to see such produce after your strange weather,..i love those Big Beef Toms,..and the Purple Asparagus,..well done you.
Ach, that's Oké miss...you are right though--I really do enjoy seeing and hearing what is going on over there each season. In general, I'd have to say that the season here is doing.....different. hahaha. It is doing well enough because I have the pantry full of jams and the freezer is totally full of veg. We have had quite a long dry and warm spell here this year, though. There are still a few things in the ground, but most plots are empty of veg and the green manure has been planted. The toms just keep coming. They like it warm. Good luck with the rest of your season.
Great looking produce. In my area the only thing we have are people with vans who go to the strip district in Pittsburgh and buy their produce. The same poor quality as the grocery stores with a higher price and they call them farmers market. I know of farms that have there own road side stand but they are about 50 miles away.
Hi Philip, Yes, STRANGE weather is the best description...strange. This week it has gotten into the 80's. NOW things are starting to ripen. Today i picked 5 bushels of tomatoes from the 4 rows that are the hybrids. that is a lot of tomatoes. Sjoerd, Our weather was ...different, too. We had a late freeze, then horrid wet, then hot, then cold for a long while now...it is Summer here. jbest, that is too bad to hear of the "type" of market you have available, but I understand it. This is hard work and most people don't want to work this hard. I wouldn't support that type of market and it is too bad that the customers "keep it going", by showing up and shopping for Walmart quality produce. Yuck! If you lived closer you would have some very tasty tomatoes available. I was cutting varieties for a customer to try this morning, as soon as they were done another one pulled in and asked..."what is a good tomato" we all laughed and I started over with sampling for the next customer. They both liked "JD'S Special from Central Texas" the best. It is a very nice ummmm black? tomato? I am not sure what color it is classified as, but it isn't red nor is it really pink, but green shouldered with dark dusky pink flesh inside.
I just knew you were busy this Summer. I way you pop in once in a while but didn't stay long. Good to know you are still here and glad to see how bury your are. Plants and food looks very very nice. XOX
Thanks Barb, Busy I have been. Not that I didn't want to be here, I just needed to be out there. "Make hay while the sun is shining", you know.
