The harvest continues.
The temperature here today in Bomwmanville is 38 C (100 F). In October. On Thanksgiving. It’s a new heat record. I usually have some gardening to do on Thanksgiving Monday, but never before has it been this hot. Canadian Thanksgiving is a harvest celebration, and today I celebrate the amazing harvest I have been blessed with in my gardens this year.
I harvested this basket of goodies from the back yard yesterday. The red peppers are mostly Fish peppers, a hot Jamaican heirloom. I think I’ll pickle them whole. The rest of the peppers are jalapeno, both red and green.
Yesterday we went over to the community plot and harvested the rest of the tomatoes. We have four grocery bags filled with them, which means more roasting this week. I honestly think I harvested three or four bushels of tomatoes from the plot this year. Crazy! I also cut the sunflowers that were in bloom there. The largest one had been snapped off over the garden fence by someone who either really loved the flower or really hated it. Either way, I didn’t want to lose the rest of the blooms to strange hands, so I brought them home and they grace my dining room table. Here you can see how morning glories were growing up the sunflower stalks. I let the vines be, and I think they add something pretty to the arrangement.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends.
[...] (P.S. I have a new post up at my gardening blog today, Playing in the Dirt: The harvest continues.) [...]
Your sunflowers are magnificent!
Amy I didn’t know you grew such beautiful sunflowers. I love them but they never seem to grow at our house. Awesome site you made for the family too. You’re fast!!
Wow, I hear you with the weather freakiness being on the other side of Lake Huron from you in MI. Hot days and now it is 40F (sorry, can’t remember my conversion to Celsius). I too just harvested the motherload of peppers – for fear of them freezing tonight. I plan to roast my green chile’s later this afternoon. How do you roast your tomatoes? Do you can them afterwards? I have been a canning guru lately and am ready for a break. One bowl of tomatoes left:(.