Garden Update Fall
I'm expecting frost any day now. Everything is done for the most part, though no one notified the pepper plants that the end is here. I didn't get as much food this season as last season, due to rain as mentioned before.
I was Johnny-on-the-spot and someone gave me a free cheap car port. It is the kind with terrible support structure and a canvas top. It is 12' wide x 20' long x 8' tall (3.6m x 6m x 2.4m). I'll get some greenhouse, uv-protected plastic to cover it. It is just large enough to fit 1 raised bed with both walkways, but there's not enough room on the ends to squeeze between the wall and bed. I'll shorten the bed by a couple blocks (hurray for no mortar) so I can access both sides of the bed. OR, I'll just fill one side with containers of water for thermal mass and just reach further across the bed to get to plants. The makeshift greenhouse will extend out over the fence and into the yard a little bit, but I have the fence made to be moveable as needed. I'll also be adding extra bracing, otherwise it wouldn't survive the winds here. After it is up, I can still put the polytunnel over the raised bed. I can actually have 3 layers of plastic with this setup if I wish. Now, I just need to do it.
The spearmint, I moved from the wild, is flourishing and I should be able to have tons of it next season. The pequin peppers are doing really well. The apple root trees are doing well and now need moved. The fastigiata pin-striped peanut plants were covered over by rampant pumpkin vines for most of the season, but I actually got a small crop. I boiled one and they taste great. Since I'm no longer growing vines in the raised beds I'll try these again next season. I'm in Zone 5, but I think I can make it work. The bottom pic set shows the fresh peanuts, 5-min boiled peanuts, and the deskinned peanut.
>>1376567>picThat looks really good. I grind up my Hungarian wax peppers, seeds and all, but it is more coarse than that.
