It is Almost the end of a Season for 2019 Until Fall Crops are Ready for Harvesting

At the moment fall crops are not quite ready for harvesting, but I would say in the next couple of weeks the first broccoli heads or the first kale leaves will be ready for consumption.  I also have a brussel sprout plant that is just about ready for harvesting which I may do either this weekend or sometime next week.

Now that my fall crops have been growing quite well I also am still harvesting various vegetables that I grew this summer.  Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and some beans are what is left of the summer harvest right now.  

My beans are probably done for the year and they have not been producing any more flowers.  There might be some that are hidden within the leaves, but I think it is safe to say that they have given their all. 

My tomatoes are also going the way of my beans and are done with producing new flowers for new fruits that can be harvest.  Luckily there is one beefsteak tomato plant that doesn’t want to give up and is still growing tomatoes.  As for flowers I think it is done, but the plant still has fruit on it that I will be harvesting sometime this month and hopefully before a frost.

 Peppers are another vegetable that I am still harvesting through the month of October.  These plants grew quite well this season and I have probably picked several dozen throughout the year using them for various things including a couple of batches of homemade tomato sauce.    There are still a few on these plants that I will be picking this week, but once I pick these last ones that will most likely be it for them.

 Last but not least are my eggplants that have grown the best out of most of my garden plants.  This could be due to the fact that I grew over 20 eggplants in the garden.  It was just a numbers game that I will have many eggplants to pick.  I have been picking them on a regular basis and I still have plenty out in the garden to harvest.  I would say that this is the largest harvest of eggplants I have ever received.

Some More Vegetables That Were Ready for Picking

Just some more vegetables that I had to pick this week because they were ready to be placed on the table and eaten.  For example before getting too tough to eat I need to make sure that I pick my ears of corn right away.  I don't like to eat tough corn and this year they have actually been quite good.  I am looking forward to next season by saving one ear to use as seeds.  That is still on the stalk and I won't pick it until October or when it is dry enough.

Exactly 21 ears were ready to be picked and eaten.  Although I did not eat all of them I still did cook them and placed them in the refrigerator where they can stay good enough for quite a while.

Again I also had beans which are going to be stored for use during the Winter time like I did last season.  They lasted quite a while and I still have a few left from last season's harvest because I had picked so many of them.  I don't think I picked as many this year, but I still got an average crop which will be stored.  Nine pounds came out this week so far.

Large peppers are always the best to pick, but not all the time are they going to be big.  This year most of the early plants have been producing large peppers which is really great.  I don't think I have ever grown peppers of this size before.  This season has been great for peppers and I am looking forward to pick even more of them.