With Hurricane Earl due in this weekend, and September starting tomorrow, I decided it was time to harvest some of the crops.
These are cherry peppers, grown a bit beyond the neat tiny globes I expected. Jim does a great thing with them, stuffing them with Fontenella cheese and anchovies, but I need to figure out how to preserve them first. At their size, I can’t get more than about a half dozen in a pint jar and I don’t want them overheated to soften the crispness we like.
I need to pick the basil, but really wanted to get the peaches picked. Don’t bother zooming in on this image; I had put the slightly nibbled peaches on top, bad side up, and forgot that when I took the picture and Photoshop didn’t help much.
I’m also knee-deep finally in cherry tomatoes. The plants are succumbing to late blight, but they’re still producing good fruit. Time for Gazpacho again I think
There comes a time when the work started in May gets tiring by late August. While I’m not yet hoping for the first frost, I’ll be glad to wrap up this summer’s bounty soon.
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