It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. First, a little update. Like I’ve been doing for several years now, I’ve decided to take a break from the Harvest Monday posts for the winter months, until next February. I’ll be back with Harvest Monday on February 3rd, 2025. Until then, I will post here about other garden news as it happens, and you can always follow my Facebook page and Instagram feed for harvests and other garden news. Thanks to all for reading and participating in this celebration of the harvest that has been going since 2009. Now, on to my meager harvests!
I got another big harvest of persimmons last week from our little tree. I’ve gotten 14 pounds of them so far this season, and the tree is still loaded. We had friends visiting us last week and I sent a bunch home with them. We also enjoyed persimmon bread and persimmon cookies while they were here.
persimmons
And I also made a cutting of lettuce for our salads. This time I cut the green leaf Slo-bolt and the red Cherokee. These have both done well, and I sent some extra seeds for them home with our friends as well.
Slo-bolt and Cherokee lettuce
I got a few more hot Peppers from the Sugar Rush Peach plant that has been super productive this year. I’ve made a lot of hot sauce with this variety, which is about all I do with it since it’s too hot for my tastes to eat raw or dried and made into powder.
Sugar Rush Peach peppers
That’s all I harvested last week. Our friends Steve and Sharon drove up from Alabama to visit us for a few days, and we were busy showing them the sights around our area. My wife made some fabric art of a photo of the four of us horseback riding together back in summer, and I made a wooden frame to match the fabric. It was a fun way to memorialize our fun trip to the Cumberland Falls area, and my first time up on a horse in many years!
art piece
horseback riding
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!
Yeehaw, Cowboy Buckaroo Dave! A nice close to a good season. I will look for your posts on FB over the coming months. Enjoy your time off.
Thanks Will. We spent an hour on the horses, but it seemed a lot longer since my “sit” bones were objecting!
Lovely photo of you all
Thanks Sue.
Baked my 12lb long neck pumpkin and put 10 cups of puree in the freeze.
Oh thank you for keeping Harvest Monday going and a well-deserved break. The persimmons are lovely. A friend brought me two Fuyus yesterday and a neighbor has kept me in Hachiyas that ripen to a soft, sweet perfection. I’ll look for your updates on Instagram.
Well late to the party again this week, but I got really side tracked! I’ll have to find you in the other places for the winter. Winter and early spring are the best harvests around here, with cooler weather and a little more rain. Of course we have been so hot and dry I haven’t even started fall planting yet. Oh I love persimmons. One of the things on my planting list once I get some other things done.
Oh my, the persmissions look wonderful! I wish I could grow them.