It’s been a great season here in our little NW Iowa town.
Picked all of the rest of the squash today, and most of the rest of the melons. Filled the van completely up. There are still dozens of watermelons that just don’t seem to want to ripen though.
Hitting the end of the tomato crop, but I did get three and a half five gallon buckets full this week. Lots up green and sweet peppers still to pick, probably tomorrow.
Picked a whole five gallon bucket of habaneros today. LOL...that’s way more than we can possibly use. Shoot, one of those little babies is enough spice for a whole canner full of salsa. But we do make a smoking hot habanero sauce that’s real good, if you go for that sort of thing. I plan on giving most of it to my son in law.
Way behind on pulling my onions. Hope to finish that tomorrow too.
My potato crop is the best ever. Still about twenty rows to dig. Based on what I’ve dug so far, I’d say we still have at least ten or twelve bushels out there.
Never seen a better apple crop than this year. The trees are loaded. We only picked off four different trees this year, and we’re overflowing with fruit. We’ve put the best ones in boxes between paper and into cold storage in the basement, and made sauce and filling out of the rest. And we still have apples everywhere.
Apple picking did get a bit expensive this year, though. Last week I took a tumble off a step ladder and broke my wrist. Had to have surgery to put in a plate. The splint is off and the sutures are out, but it’s going to take awhile before I have full use of my right arm again. But thank the Lord, I am healing.
Consider putting the almost ripe fruit, elevated off the ground on top of any large cans in the garden.
Frequently , overnight cold ground will chill the fruit , thus slowing down the ripening; use whatever heat you can get this late in the season.
I think Northern Iowa probably got a lot of the rain here in the Pacific NW didn't get....sounds like your garden and orchard really thrived...