Our 2022 summer garden is coming to an end, and it’s going to frost tonight. So we are saying goodbye, pulling out the very last bits of hot-weather-loving produce that we can get, and calling it a good harvest year.
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36 Comments
I didnt hack anything off, just moved a trinidad pepper to a pot when cold and to the ground or outside in a pot in the summer. Kept it going for 9 years and 2 moves
Awe, Buggy! You are getting so big!
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Stivers Homestead said that you can dry them off the Vine
WOW! WOW! WOW! Looks like a WONDERFUL End of Season Harvest to Me !!! 🤪🤪That Little Daughter of yours: Miss Dress Yourself is SO SMART and SO CUTE!! 💖💖 She DID A good job with Dressing Herself ! 😜😜 You had a BUNCH of "Little People" Helping to gather the Veggies and since Tomatoes are REALLY a FRUIT, you got Fruit, TOO !! 😍😍😍 LOVE YOUR WONDERFUL FAMILY !!
My grandson heard the same thing about the peppers so he’s doing the same experiment with his peppers also
We always have light and dark luffas. We had to hack all of ours down last year before the frost and we just left them laying out, we only had 3 that molded. You can actually still use them, just wash them really well with soap, or even bleach (we don't use bleach though), the sun can also bleach them out after they dry post wash. Just some thoughts from our experience. ❤️💋
We were going to overwinter our pepper plants this year but we moved suddenly instead. We can try next year 😉
More fun in the garden. A great harvest! Thanks for taking me along. See you in the next video after you have had your first hard frost! Take care! Please stay safe during these first days of frost! No accidents please, with cars or people! See You!
our weather forecast here is totally unpredictable. wish all those events weren't back east!!! we did find on coming in June in Idaho!!! have tickets and camp spot.
Maybe if mild winter you can build on a back deck and add room for storing your extra produce while waiting for processing.
I've left them in the ground and also put them in pots. Had better luck in ground, but pots have worked. In NWFL, and used mulch around them for the winter. Pepper Plants.
Indian people expect to have that reaction to chillies. It's how they cope with the intense heat and humidity of India.
could just extend the plastic toward the rest of the raised bed and use as a part of the high tunnel to cover more plants till make a end of the greenhouse.
My Luffa did the same thing 2 different colors, I pulled mine to dry I got a few to do to it but most molded too.
Sounds like you need some scarecrows in the apple orchard. They call them that for a reason you know.
Congratulations on a great harvest!
Instead of bending over when harvesting, I just pull up the plants that would freeze or I’m tired of picking and stand upright to harvest.
Could you not cover the loofah's with plastic to keep the moisture off of them? Just curious
💚 Wow, that's quite a getting-close-to-final Harvest! So plentiful and colorful. Wonder what caused that weird pepper reaction you had?? 💚
Awesome! It was the year of the pepper for us as well! I’m going to prune one of each kind back and then cover with plastic on hoops to make a mini low tunnel. Hopefully they come back strong in the Spring. Zone 8b/9a border, NE FL.
Concerning the pepper plants, it works. You will be pleased!
@The Hollar Homestead. Thought I would share a comment from a FB garden page about luffa…"Decided to chance it and bake my green luffas so they would dry before I lost them all… I'm surprised to say it worked. I cut slips in skin and baked 30 min at 350. Let cool enough to touch and they peel easy then run water thru to remove seeds"
Hi beautiful family , I have a question. what do you do with the dry lufas?
I've harvested my green luffa. I've found that as long as they are firm and fibrous they have been fine. Cut the ends off, deep score the skin, peel, and they squeeze the remaining meat out, then wash and dry. I was so afraid that I was going to lose my crop last year so I had to try it and it worked. Now I will say that the small ones are way too meaty and will rot.
This year I started these seed into, because they take soo long to grow, transplanted outdoor, something attacked them. I moved they two survivors and boom it was everywhere! Beautiful! …I was only able to harvested one extra large luffa. lol Thankful for the one!
That reaction to the chocolate peppers sounds a lot like a hexamer response. Maybe it quickly killed off some parasites or somehow dumped some toxins. Hexamer responses are really what we know as the flu.
Sounds like those Chocolate habaneros are a detox medicine, rather than food. May be good to have on standby.
Overwinter the peppers works with us. G'D BLESS and greetings from Inge Noordam (the Netherlands/Europe)
I wonder if the cooling effect would still carry if you micro-dosed the pepper, or if you have to hurt before the benefit. Or if mixing it with dairy would fight the heat but keep the cooling.
Why not sell the chocolate peppers
And here I am in TX (Fort Worth to be exact) grumbling at the 40 degree lows. I get it but we are in TEXAS!! October is supposed to be wonderful edging toward HOT in Oct!
You absolutely can overwinter peppers. I usually trim the roots back some. With no leaves the plant doesn’t need as many roots. You do have to water them over the winter. You can’t forget about them like you did the potatoes. I have done this with poblano and bell peppers. Not this year though. My wife has had enough of my plants in the south facing window. No room for a greenhouse.
Beautiful final harvest of all your vegetables!!
I have over wintered bell , jalapeño,and chili pepper plants the jalapeño I have now has produced 3 years in a row now!
Grasshoppers got our apples. I had to laugh while I cried about that one. Haha. Sorry about your crows.
Our poblanos did the same! Small 😳. And loofahs went ape- Sh*t NUTS! Did go through the frost but found they peeled easily! So far so good on those and I was surprised! ❤️ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh and found 2 volunteer peppers under our juniper bush, must have given chickens some scraps there and dig up before frost and they are doing great!!! ❤️ Kristy again 🤣