Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night of the previous week and weekend we spent chasing two 2000 pound heifers around the farm. Somewhere they were (and are still) escaping the pasture. Yeah! What are you doing this weekend!? I'm fixing a fence!
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to eulogize my first ever fall planted garden. I had grand hopes and dreams of carrots from the garden well into the winter, Detroit Red Beets the size of softballs, and beautiful white headed cauliflower. The spinach and Swiss Chard were growing great and we had been enjoying their green super food-awesomeness.
Little did I know until yesterday while on a pepper picking extravaganza that cows eat spinach TOO!!! AND CHARD, AND CARROTS, AND BEETS, AND PEAS, AND EVEN SOME TYPES OF PEPPERS!!!!
Jerks. Oh well, a lesson for next year - butcher annoying cows before they're smart enough to escape fences and eat all of your hard work. Other than the sudden and bitter end to the garden season coming sooner than I had anticipated, I did have a great pepper harvest!
This second photo is not showing the almost full bushel of banana peppers that I ended up canning which you can see in the first one.
Lots of chilies. I roasted and canned some earlier this season and they turned out great. I'll most likely do that with these as well as freezing them.
Almost time for Habenero Hot Sauce! These are a different variety this year. Mustard Habeneros. They're a bit larger and thinner walled. They taste great.
I tried a new recipe for canned banana peppers from a friend. They're packed in a sweeter than normal brine with the addition of mustard and celery seeds. They're awesome, I'll post it in a few days.
We still have a lot of peppers that will need picked prior to the frost and luckily cows don't seem to like the chilies. If they change their minds - anyone want some beef???
Keep it spicy yo.
i missed out on the final harvest dude.
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