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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Vol. 19.40 - Saying Goodbye to the Northern Garden [1]

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Date: 2023-10-07  

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Goodnight peppers. Goodnight tomatoes. Goodnight beans, squash, cucumbers, raspberries and ground cherries. Last big harvest 6 October

That said, I have some plants that perked up in the past week. Brassica plants, if established, like themselves some chilly weather. I've had green kale in December, here in South Dakota. I am also still growing some brussies and kohlrabi.

My Two Artichokes — Did not produce fruit, they needed more chill hours as seedlings...or something

Some heartier root crops, lower moisture veggies i.e. carrots, turnips and parsnips, are often sweeter if allowed to finish ripening in cooler temperatures (30's and 40's).

Goodbye dahlias, a few never providing their first bloom. Goodbye roses, four-o-clocks, petunia and begonia.

The Last Bouquet — picked 6 October

Yet, hello snapdragons, sage and rosemary. I have another few weeks of a touch of color in my flower garden.

So now I have a pile of peppers and tomatoes I rescued from the F-Word last night. What to do, what to do.

Tomatoes: Ripe

-Can Them

-Freeze Them

-Dehydrate them

-cook down to a sauce or paste.

-Dry tomatoes for a savory kick to a dish

Tomatoes: Green

-Fried green tomatoes

-Chow Chow (fantastic on muffuletta)

Chow Chow — spiced pickled peppers, green tomato and cabbage

Peppers: Hot or sweet

-hot sauce (fermented or naw)

-taco sauce

-paprika

-specialty pepper powder

-pepper jelly

-dice and freeze

-chow chow

-pickled

Dahlia — variety unknown. 5 October

What do you guys do with your harvest?

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