Pepper, Apples, Tomatoes, Pumpkins

I'm not sure how I forgot to update the gardening blog for three weeks but there you have it. Things have been busy! First up, I pulled in the three largest papers. I think we'll get 15 this year. These have since ripened and two are in the oven right now for fajitas!

The watermelons are also doing well. I think we'll get three watermelons and two cantaloupes this year.

 

We harvested the first apple tree and ended up with a goodly number of pretty big apples. Some of these have gone into crisps. 

The rest I canned as pie filling to make room for...

...endless tomatoes. I started pulling off the riper ones to help the plants make some progress on the greener ones.

The result was very crowded window skills.

The smaller stupice tomatoes, I mostly dehydrated for the winter.

The largest tomatoes, including some black Russian ones have been ether eaten fresh or crushed and canned.

I have another 40 tomatoes on the window sills ripening. These I'll run through the tomato mill and likely sauce. Finally, we have four (or maybe five) huge pumpkins (four litres ice cream pail for scale).

There are also about a dozen smaller pumpkins. I managed to process the garlic and most of it is in storage. Ditto the onions. The next big rush (other than the tomatoes) will be the scarlet runner beans But those are likely several weeks away yet.