Potting Tabasco chili plants!

Bought my vegetable plants!!

My dad and I went to Lowes over the weekend to pick up some tomato plants for the garden...I think I went a little over board! 

Not only did I get more tomato plants than I was expecting I also got pepper plants, cucumbers, squash and basil! In all I ended up with: 

8 tomato plants 

4 hot pepper plants 

4 sweet pepper plants 

1 cucumber pot (6 plants in it)

1 squash pot (6 plants in it) 

1 sweet basil plant 

1 packet of mixed lettuce seeds

1 packet of red Swiss chard seeds

1 packet of Swiss chard seeds 

3 black plastic pots 

Hurricane Sandy Garden Damage!

Although my garden was empty, thanks to an early freeze back in the beginning of October, my garden was indirectly impacted by Hurricane Sandy. I was lucky for no big branches or trees landed on my rabbit fencing around my garden!

What did go wrong is I lost all the hot pepper I froze! We went 4 days without power and this caused my hot peppers, which I froze to, defrost. Without any way to cook them I ended up having to throw them out :( which was very disappointing for me!

Hurricane Preparation! 10/27/12

Hurricane Sandy is on her way to pound south western CT with hurricane force wind gusts, rain, storm surge and power outages. The storm is arriving on Monday October 29, one year to the day of "snowtober" (an early and destructive freak snow storm, where trees still had leaves!).

Saturday the 27th I spent some time prepping my garden stuff. Since we had an early frost this year most of the preps were cleaning up and winterizing. Here's what I did:

-Put all pots away in the shed
-Picked basil seed pods for drying and gathering seeds
-moved potted blueberry bushes into basement
-moved potted rosemary plant into basement
-moved new, and yet to be planted blackberry bush into basement
-I was surprised to pick some hot peppers 7 to be exact!
- put all bamboo stakes in garage

Harvest 10/10/12 Last of the hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
5 Hot Peppers
2 Juliet Tomatoes
2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 Marion tomato
1 Big Boy tomato

Small harvest 9/20/12

Today's Harvest:
9 Cherry Tomatoes
3 Hot Peppers
1 Juliet Tomato

Harvest 9/15/12

Today's Harvest:
1 Heirloom tomato
1 cucumber
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
5 Hot Peppers

Harvest 9/11/12 still getting Tomatoes!

Today's harvest:
5 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
2 heirloom tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 hot pepper
1 cucumber

Frozen Hot Peppers!!

I've harvested over 100 hot peppers this summer and because I was expecting cayenne peppers but got what I think is habanero, I've had a hard time figuring out what to do with them! It doesn't help that friends and family won't take more then a handful because they really are hot!

So to not let them go to waste and hopefully be able to make some spicy soups this winter I froze some! This is my first time freezing my own vegetable harvest! I've never had an over abundance of anything till this year!

Large & colorful late season harvest! 9/7/12

Today's harvest was larger than I expected and very colorful! I got to pick another eggplant and harvested the first garden beans of the season! If you read back to some of my first posts, you'll see that I planted the beans late, add in the hot dry weather and they didn't do as well as other years.

Today's harvest:
1 Japanese eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 cucumber
4 Juliet Tomatoes
5 Cherry tomatoes
6 hot peppers
58 garden beans (small)

Harvest 9/4/12

Today's harvest:
1 Marion tomato
4 hot peppers
1 cucumber
1 red hot cherry pepper
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes

Small harvest 8/30/12 but First Red Hot Cherry Pepper!

Today's harvest was small but I got my first ripe red hot cherry pepper, which from a distance looks like a tomato! Peppers have done well this year too bad I didn't have more sweet peppers!

Today's harvest:
1 big boy tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes
3 hot peppers
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper

Harvest 8/28/12

The harvest are starting to spread out as the summer wanes...but still getting plenty of hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
1 Big Boy Tomato
1 Cherry Tomato
3 cucumbers
9 Hot peppers

Harvest 8/25/12

Today's Harvest:

2 cucumbers
1 Big Boy Tomato
4 Cherry Tomatoes
14 Hot Peppers

August 21, 2012 Harvest!

Today's Harvest:
1 small cucumber
5 Cherry Tomatoes (partially ripe)
4 Juliet Tomatoes (partially ripe)
1 Marion Tomato
14 Hot Peppers

August 19, 2012 Harvest

Today's harvest:

2 Cucumbers
3 Cherry tomatoes
2 Juliet Tomatoes
11 Hot Peppers

Weird harvest 8/15/12

Today's harvest was a decent size but with some weird attachments including a tomato shape and size CUCUMBER!

On top of the weird fruit, my tomato plants are beginning to break under the torrential downpours of the past week .


Today's harvest:
2 heirloom tomatoes
3 Juliet tomatoes
3 cherry tomatoes
2 cucumbers
6 hot peppers

Harvest August 14, 2012

Another big harvest today!!

2 Big Boy Tomatoes
2 Marion Tomatoes
4 Juliet Tomatoes
2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 cucumber
22 Hot Peppers

August 12, 2012 Harvest

The garden continues to get hit by torrential downpours and will need some serious clean up this week. If I had some fall crops to plant it would be the perfect time but unfortunately I don't. Today's harvest was heavy on hot peppers once again! I'm looking for ideas on what to do with them lol and have a huge bowl of them already!

Today's harvest:
5 cherry tomatoes
15 Hot Peppers

Huge Harvest 8/8/12

Today was the largest harvest of my garden ever! I harvested my first eggplants of the season, a huge amount of hot peppers, and a variety of tomatoes!

Today's Harvest:
2 Japanese eggplants
29 hot peppers
1 cucumber
4 cherry tomatoes
7 Juliet tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 Marion tomato