It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. We got some much needed rain last week, breaking our drought that had lasted for seven weeks. We got 1.5″ in total, and that should keep the vegetable garden going for a bit longer. In a first, I got the first of the fall lettuce from my greenhouse plantings.
lettuce and hot peppers
And in what will likely be a last, I got an assortment of tomatoes from our mostly dead plants. And I got the one and only Centercut squash I harvested this year. It has been a terrible year here for both tomatoes and the squashes, though I have brought in 51 pounds of the tomatoes. That is about half of what I got last year.
last of the tomatoes
The peppers and eggplant have done reasonably well this year, and I got more of each last week. I’ve been making hot sauce with the hot peppers, and we’ve been enjoying the sweet ones as they ripen.
peppers and eggplant
With eggplant, peppers and tomatoes from our garden and onion and zucchini from the farmer’s market, I made a batch of sheet-pan ratatouille last week. I added fresh basil at the end, and used a liberal amount of a good olive oil to coat the veggies.
sheet pan ratatouille
I’ve made several batches of hot sauce now, and have one more batch of peppers fermenting. We don’t add a lot of spiciness to our foods when cooking, so I like to use the hot sauces at the table when I want some heat. These medium hot sauces have a lot of flavor from the fermented peppers I use to make them. They also keep well in the refrigerator, for at least a year or more.
fermented hot sauces
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!
That’s a shame about your tomato and squash results this year. It’s odd then that your peppers are doing so well. Coincidently, we had a ratatouille this week. Knowing that everything in it comes from the garden (except salt and oil) makes it taste even more delicious.
The ratatouille looks good.