It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. I’ll start this week with a weather report, since it is big news in the U.S. The remnants of Hurricane Helene dumped quite a bit of much needed rain on us here. It rained pretty much non-stop for 48 hours, and we got just under four inches total. Thankfully there’s been little to no damage around here and we are lucky because so many others were not so fortunate. It might help the summer veggies a bit, and it will definitely help the fall plantings. The weather station tends to under report rainfall, and I dumped 3.8 inches out of my official CoCoRaHS gauge over the period.
weather station console
As for the harvests, they are slowing down but there are a few new items in the mix. I cut the first batch of the fall planted turnip greens last week to use in a dish with scrambled eggs and other veggies. Topper is a fast growing turnip that makes greens in a short period of time (40 days for this batch). This variety doesn’t make edible roots, and in our garden makes tender leaves with a mild flavor. These had a little bug damage, but no signs of bugs themselves thankfully.
Topper turnip greens
Other harvests included a few small fruited tomatoes, and a cutting of parsley and chives to go in tabouli salad we had for lunch one day.
late September harvest
tabouli salad with curried chicken salad
I’m still getting quite a few hot peppers from the garden, and last week I harvested Aji Dedo di Moca, APS Aji Red Sweet and some gaujillo peppers for drying. It has been a good year for the hot varieties but not so good for the sweet ones.
Aji peppers
guajillo peppers for drying
The summer planted lettuce is giving us enough for salads now. Cherokee is a summer crisp type that I’ve grown before, and it did well this time around. It’s nice to have homegrown lettuce in any season, and especially now in hot weather.
Cherokee lettuce
And speaking of lettuce, I just started seeds for the fall plantings last week. They are coming up now and I will thin them to one plant per cell soon. Next up in my seeding plans are arugula, mizuna and bay leaf kale.
lettuce seedlings
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!