Teehee - Carol Hope you found him before you slurped him up!

Teeheehee... Carol I was thinking the same thing!

Here are some things from my garden now: Tomatoes are still pretty small and very green.

Romas:

Cherries:

Musica green beans:

Some of earliest broccoli:

And some kale:

The rest is too tiny or bad to show. Hoping for mild weather the next month or so to be able to get ripening on the tomatoes.

Anna

Anna- I hope that you are far enough south for the upcoming cold snap to not affect your great looking tomatoes and green beans. I grew musica pole beans before. It produced well and tasted good. Your broccoli and kale look wonderful. Can't wait to see more pics.

Christine

Most of my garden consists of some herbs along with butterfly and hummingbird plants. Things are blooming nicely and the bugs have taken it easy on me this year. Fortunately no fungus or disease. It's been a good year so far although I did lose a few flowers to the rains.

Silvia, from your party, I have planted swiss chard, dinosaur kale, and cauliflower. You gave me another plant but it escapes me right now; cabbage maybe? I've never grown vegetables and meeting you and some of the other gardeners has inspired me to try. I have so much to learn. I had never even heard of earthboxes until this thread. This learning curve is a bit daunting.

I also added some additional kale plants and potted some tomato plants in the hope of adding some homegrown goodies to the table in the future.

Jo, I feel for you!

Carol, I just discovered the chartreuse sweet potato vine and fell in love with it. Is it a plant that can grow in the ground? It would make a lovely ground cover.

The photos are great.

Off to google earthboxes!

Kathy

Anna - Your veggies look so good! and I think you are in a warmer zone and have a good chance to have the tomatoes ripen at least if you get them to show some color, they will finish ripen inside.
I made dinner for my brother's in-laws from NY last night, they were very impressed with the simple food that I made and had a chance to make everything before they arrived. One of the dishes was a tomato and cucumber chopped salad and the dessert was made from the Cinderella pumpkin that was in the freezer it was a pumpkin pie pudding and it was delicious!

The tomatoes were put to good use,:)

Hi Kathy - I am glad to know that we were a good influence on you to grow veggies, your health and your family will thank you for that later on. The mystery seedling was probably a cabbage. I planted different cauliflower and cabbage varieties and did not name them, once they were all growing I can see the difference.
And I got news for you, after the party I went to see one of the guest's garden, and it was amazing! he grows everything organic and he has such an abundance of veggies, I am so impressed!
Kathy, I wish you luck with your new style of gardening and remember you can do both, ornamental and edible goes well together.

Silvia

Hi Everyone, seeing these lovely pictures prompted me to go snap a few of my own.

Tom

I have my empty terra cotta containers ready for some short-day bulbing onions soon :-)

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First time growing Mountain Magic, very prolific!

Cukes in buckets inside pool cage doing well

First round of carrots coming up

First round of radishes coming up

I'm way behind with the borccoli

Manoa lettuce just started

Just started my Super Sugar Snap peas, I'll be pulling out the last of the pole beans soon and putting more Sugar Snaps in their place.

We are getting tomatoes but unfortunately I have to pick them green or just when they break or the squirrels will get them all.

And still getting a few more purple podded pole beans....

Everyone have a good weekend, and...

wow! You are all so accomplished. Looking good, Anna.
And Tom..your setup is most impressive and everything looks so full, lush and soon to be yummy. Love the mix of ornamentals and veggies.
Thanks for sharing

Very impressive Tom.

Tom, are you the same Tom who gave me some basil at Sylvia's? If so, can you tell me the type once again? It has pretty spiky purple blooms that shoot out at the top.

Regardless, you have a very nice setup.

Everyones veggie gardens look amazing. I love reading about everyones progress. It gives me hope that one day I will have a veggie gardens great as yours!

The squirrels keep digging in my garden looking for seeds and it's killing some of plants. Next season I think I will try putting a net of some sort over my garden until the plants are bigger.

What are some veggies that I can still plant from seed besides lettace and carrots?

On a positive note, my tomato plants are doing pretty good. I also planted some garlic that has sprouted really well. In the next month or two I should be able to harvest my sanbokan lemons (my kids favorite!), honey murcott tangerines (my favorite) and a few cara cara red navels.

Thanks, Christine, Silvia and Hester, and thanks also for the good wishes on tomato ripening. This cold weather is certainly not helping. Christine, I love those musica green beans. They are my favorite beans. I'm glad I had some good ones this season.

Tom, you have quite the production of tomatoes going on there and have a lot ripening already. I restarted my transplants the first week of September. When did you plant your transplants out? You are quite a bit ahead of me. Those purple pole beans are really pretty. Thanks for reminding me to plant out the sugar snaps. Your garden really looks pretty with all the flowers intermixed.

Silvia, your salad looks great. Anyone would feel fortunate to have you cooking for them!

Anna

Hi Tom - What a beautiful garden you have, everything looks so healthy! I am also growing the tomato Mountain Magic for the greenhouse, hope it does well in those conditions.
Cucumbers were good this season and did not have to cover any, being the most resistant to disease Corinto, just like Amber said. I think it helps that when I sprayed the leaves I also put some of the spray at the base of the plant.
Tom, we really missed you at the party, next time you have to come.

Kathy - Tom from Tampa could not make it to the party because he is recovering from loosing his cat Pickles, sorry Tom and I hope that time soothes your pain and you will only remember the good times with your cool pet.
Kathy you probably are talking about Tom123 from Clermont he likes butterfly plants and I remember him coming with the blue basil,I think. I was left with one and together with other basil that I got from Dianne are in the greenhouse. We were so busy that I only had a few words with him.-(

Hi Ariel - You can plant a lot of veggies in the cold season, it all depends what you and your family likes. I am starting more seedlings of broccoli, cauliflower,collards, cabbage, swiss chard, kale. And don't forget the peas, everybody's favorite.
Congratulations on your citrus, they are so good for us!

Hi Anna - yesterday we had a very successful harvest dinner. The night started with white wine punch with citrus and starfruit

After that the program was to let the guests make their own salsa to taste, I had everything chopped before they arrive, I can still feel the heat with the variety of hot peppers,lol. They were free to season till the taste was right for them and after that they took the jars home, it was fun.
We used the frozen Cinderella pumpkin and the tomato sauce from the garden to make pumpkin lasagna, everyone's favorite.

Also picked lettuce from the garden to make a salad and the radishes that were left with leaves for them to pick if they like it, they all did.

For dessert we had a cranberry caflouti and a Meyer lemon tart, this one was so good!

Silvia

I didn't realize there were so many things I could still plant from seed. I will try and plant some more things today.
Thank you!

Love the mix of ornamentals and veggies.
Thanks for sharing

Thanks Hester, just looked too sterile the first few years with only veggies, and I like having more bees around.

Tom, are you the same Tom who gave me some basil at Sylvia's?

Hi Kathy, it wasn't me, we didn't make it this year, hope to meet you soon.

What are some veggies that I can still plant from seed besides lettace and carrots?

Ariel, don't forget broccoli and Sugar Snap peas, and this month short-day onions will become available (Granex).

When did you plant your transplants out? (tomatoes)

Anna, I jumped the gun and started the last week on August, the down side is that when I killed off most of my Morning Glory arbor by fertilizing it the whitefly move on to the tomatoes, so I've lost about #5/30 plants to whitefly. I know better than to start earlier than mid-September here.

...I am also growing the tomato Mountain Magic for the greenhouse, hope it does well in those conditions....
Cucumbers were good this season and did not have to cover any, being the most resistant to disease Corinto, just like Amber said....

Silvia, I think you'll be happy with Mountain Magic, I'll be growing them each season for a while.... I could not get Cool Breeze since it was a crop failure last year and had not heard Amber's report about Corinto before I ordered the Cool Breeze substitute - Corentine. Sounds a lot like Corinto, doesn't it? It's the one you see in my pictures above and very prolific

Sorry we missed the Party, hopefully we won't miss the next one. I'll build your watering wand this weekend and get it off by next weekend.

Love your pictures, they're always amazing ;-)

Tom

I feel so behind when I look at your gardens. Here in Cape Coral it was way to hot to set things out till October.

I have some nice tomatos, peppers and cucumbers coming bt they are still small :(

Started to harvest some lettuce a week or two ago. I have bibb and red sails. I am dissapointed with the flavor of the red sails, a litte too bitter for my taste. Anyone suggest a good red lettuce?

I have 3 plantings of broccoli going but the oldest are just forming heads now. The next group went into the ground 2 weeks ago and the third bunch is about ready to go outside. We eat a lot of broccoli so I freeze a bunch.

My kohlrabi has been dug up by some critter a few times so I only have 3 or 4 left. The only thing I can think of is I might not have worked the blood meal in deep enough.

My zucchni squash is growing well but shows no sign of fruit. This is only my second attempt with squash. Last time I battled bugs, so far they are leaving this group alone and they are growing. Wish me luck!

I also have radish but its for the chickens not us.

I hope to be eating lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and cucs for thanksgiving and by Christmas add some broccoli and squash.

My tomatoes are starting to set. Getting blooms on my pile beans and have some big healthy brocolli which should do some thing cool soon...I hope! The only thing I've harvested so far is kale. I'm still having trouble with my squash. Planted carrots and lettuce this morning.

Ooh, Sylvia, got a recipe for the pumpkin lasagna and/or the Meyer lemon tart?

Hi Keiki - Your plantings are right on time for your area and you have a longer season.
About the red lettuce, I am growing this season Merlot and is a nice color for the salads, mild too. Last year I grew a variety called Silvia (no kidding) lol, it was very prolific in the garden and did well in the heat and cold.

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Hi FLgardenmom - It is good to hear about your progress in the veggie garden and kale is great in soups or stirfries, you can also make kale chips in the oven. Don't forget to thin the carrots so they have room to grow.

Silvia

Hi Writersblock

Did not see your post, here is the pumpkin lasagna recipe for you. The rustic meyer lemon tart is on the november issue of Martha Stewart Living and it really brings out the best of the meyer lemon flavor, we made other recipes before and this is one of the best.

Silvia

Here is a link that might be useful: pumpkin lasagna

Thanks, Silvia!

Thank you Silvia I will look up Merlot online and see what I can find. I put a few romaine in yesterday and think I will sow more seeds trying back seeded simpson, a butterhead mix, and rougette de montipellier.

Silvia,I can't believe You have cauliflowers to harvest already.I am behind on my garden for this month.I just got out of hospital,after having my hip replaced...not bad for being 43 :) & so will have to catch up when I can move a bit more freely.We just had our first light frost here on Saturday morning,so I'll have to see if the toms & peppers made it.

You are welcome Writersblock

Keiki - it is a good idea to try different lettuces all the time, such a big variety we have as a gardeners, another good mix that I found was a Valentine's blend, all red lettuces.

Hi Westhamutd - I am very sorry about your surgery but at such a young age you should heal very fast, my best wishes for you and hope that you get to garden soon. Are you going to use the greenhouse for the tomatoes? soon will be the time to put them there, the tomatoes that I have outside in the garden are still ripening but we did not get a freeze yet.
And I love cauliflowers! I prepare them so many ways. Here is the one that I made for lunch today. It has roasted winter squash and cauliflowers.

Silvia

Hi Silvia,many thanks for the kind words.The Doc said I will be running about in no time.Yes I am going to plant a few toms,peppers & squash in the greenhouse.I started the seedlings a few weeks back & will try & plant them this week(if I can bend down far enough :) )The toms & peppers I have in the raised beds seem to have survived the light frost,so hopefully I will get a little more fruit until the freezes arrive,which could be in two weeks.I love cauliflower as well,but for some reason have always started it later than my brocolli,but I think next season I will start it at at the same time.I love the pictures of the dishes You prepare-You are very creative in the kitchen as well as the garden

Hi Westhamutd

Thank you for your nice comments.:) And is very good to know that you will be running in no time.

I already put the fruit trees in the greenhouse, during the day I run a small fan, it gets hot and humid there. At night is okay but soon I will use a small space heater for the freezing nights.
I am growing some tomatoes that are greenhouse varieties and also some that don't get too tall, we will compare notes at the end of the season, first time for me growing them in the greenhouse.
I planted broccoli first and got some heads but my real favorite is cauliflower so I planted more of them, the variety that is producing is an early variety. I also have Romanesco and Veronica and they are not forming heads yet.

Silvia

Tom ~ I was hoping that you would post some pictures of your yard soon. Now I don't have to wonder how the garden is coming along. It looks wonderful. Too bad you didn't get to Silvia's garden party. You were missed.

Silvia ~ Your food is as attractive as your garden. I have a new Oriental friend that eats green papaya regularly. Her husband jokingly says that she is a green papaya salad addict. I've been sharing many green papayas with her because she says that they taste better than what she can buy at the Asian market. I've learned to really like the salad too. I hope that you keep the recipes coming so we can get more ideas on how to cook what we have grown.

Christine

whgille,
I am not a fan of Pesto (pine nuts not my friends). I do love chopped Basil in almost everything and I share with neighbors.

That Meyer lemon tart looks awesome!
Thanks for replying to my post!

Westhamutd I am sorry to hear about your surgery! I hope you heal quickly, it sounds lke the doctors expect you to. It amazes me what they can do. FROST? already? Wow I guess I have been lost in my own little world here.

Christine would you be willing to share some of your green papaya recipes? I am afraid many of my papayas wont have time to ripen and would love to try something new with them.

Thank you Christine, sometimes I will eat a well made green papaya salad, I don't use them often because of the latex in the raw green papaya. Some cuisines also use the green papaya cooked like squash in a soup. I prefer a good tasting ripe papaya and I usually pair it with other fruit like citrus.
And I have fun trying new recipes and when they come out good I like to share it with company at the house or friends in the forum, also have fun trying new vegetable varieties.:)

Thank you Mary Ruth, I prefer desserts that have fruit in them especially it is from the garden.
I had an Italian party last spring and we invited a chef born and raised in Italy to give a cooking demonstration, and a lot his recipes used basil in some form or other, he explained that in different parts of Italy they make different pesto sauces, his had no pine nuts and had a very good flavor.

Silvia

Tom ~ I was hoping that you would post some pictures of your yard soon. Now I don't have to wonder how the garden is coming along. It looks wonderful. Too bad you didn't get to Silvia's garden party. You were missed.

Hi Christine, sorry we missed Silvia's party but we we're just not ready for a Gala, we're recovering slowly but every day it gets better, I think....

Tom

keiki ~ Since you are in Zone 10 you will have much more time for your papaya to ripen than I have. When you pick the green papayas, avoid picking from the lowest papayas since they would be the ones to ripen first. I have been picking higher up the trunk and I am amazed to find that there is some coloring inside even though the skin is very green. My grown daughter and I really like green papaya salad. I wished that I started making it years ago. It's a heart breaker to see all those green papaya fall to the ground after a freeze. As for the recipe, I have have been making it more like Silvia's recipe because it dilutes the fish sauce which is very salty and has a bit of an anchovy taste. I bought the shredding tool and fish sauce at a local Asian market. I'll take a picture of my shredder tool which looks similar to a wide potato peeler with a wavy blade. They are very inexpensive.

Silvia ~ Can you post your link for the Green Papaya Salad?
My Oriental friend eats green papaya nearly every day and it hasn't caused her any problems. That's how she ate in Laos, green and ripe papaya every day. Even though I'm learning to eat the fruit green as a vegetable, they are really good ripe. I am greatly enjoying many ripe papayas this year. Best year ever.

I took some pictures of my garden today.

'Bright Light' and 'Perpetual' Swiss chard:

Pac choi and Napa cabbages:

More 'Bluewind' broccoli heading up:

These 'Green Glaze' collards need picking again already:

There is a "bed" of carrots in the garden, 8 rows about 20 feet long. I forgot to take a close up of it. The carrots can be seen in the the first picture, towards the back of the garden and also some of the carrots can be seen at the top of the broccoli picture.

Christine

Silvia,
We drive right by your area when we go to my husband's daughter's house which is North of Gainsville. We are on the Space Coast.

I chop up Basil and freeze it in ice cube trays with a little water so I can have some for any recipe or soup. I also dry it and save some whole to chop up when I need it. Since our garden is full of it now, I just go outside and grab as many leaves as I want anytime. It has a calming effect too.

I love fruit desserts too. I learned how to cook italian many years ago from some older Italian ladies in Brooklyn when I visited there. I still whip up lasagna now and then (with lots of Basil). Thanks for your reply!

happy_fl_gardener,
nice photos of your garden. DH wants to plant a Papaya tree, I am not a fan.

I will post some pictures here when I remember how to do it!

mary ruth ~ I have plenty of extra papaya seeds if you want some. :)

Hi everyone. I would like to share some of my pics of my Garden. I only grow hot peppers. Have had no luck with anything else:( So here are a few shots. I live just south of Daytona in Edgewater.

Chocolate bhut jolakia,some different 7 pods, and trinidad scorpions

Aji lemon,chocolate hab and red savina hab

And a nice flower shot from my 7 pod brain strain

I love me some fresh hot salsa. and hot sauce. Here is a recipe for hot apple sauce.
2 large peeled apples
1 cup lemon juice
2 tbl spoons of apple cider vinegar
1 cup of white sugar
1 tsp of cinnamon
35 to 60 grams of whatever pepper you desire( I prefer red habs or hotter XXX )
boil on medium heat for 30 minutes and jar up

I have many more pepper pics I can share if the community desires.
Thanks Jamie

Christine - The recipe is in a book that is buried somewhere upstairs, I will have to look for it.:)

Hi Jamie - Very nice hot pepper garden! you are the specialist, good for you! hot peppers look healthy and you have different varieties. Thank you for posting the recipe, I will try it sometimes.

Here are some of my hot peppers

A French hot pepper

Hot paprika

And today I was busy making a meyer lemon rose petal marmalade.

Here are the roses that I dried to use them in the recipe

My Meyer lemon after I used all the lemons for the recipe, still has lemons left

And marmalade is resting till tomorrow...

Silvia

Jamie ~ I wish that I like hot peppers. They look so nice.

Silvia ~ Sorry, I thought that the recipe was online and you posted a link to it.

You taught me something new. Rose petals in marmalade. Sounds interesting. It looks like you made a lot.

My extra dwarf pak choy suddenly bolted. Do you think that it turned bitter like lettuce or do you think that it's still edible? Got any favorite pak choy recipes?

Here is the shot of my carrot patch that I didn't post the other day.

Christine

Christine - I think they will be fine, greens that get cook are more forgiving than raw, where you can taste any bitterness. In any case give it the taste test before making any big batches. I grew choy sum and you eat it with the flowers too.

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Silvia

Here is a link that might be useful: recipe

Silvia,what frost/freeze protection do You use for the Meyer lemon & what is your minimum low temp You hit.We have hit 15degs the last few winters on a couple of nights,so I keep my Meyer lemon in a pot & will move it into the greenhouse on the coldest nights.I planted a Meyer lemon in the ground also & put a bunch of covers over it.It died right back,but sent out new growth in the Spring,but will never get to a fruiting size due to the freezes.

Westhamutd - I have the tale of the Meyer lemons in my area. I only covered the trunk with a thick blanket and it survived and gave a lot of lemons this season. Across the street, they covered the whole tree with a blanket but roots were exposed, the tree died. Close to the house two other people said they babied the trees and they also died.
The only citrus that I covered making a tent with poles and a light was a red lime because it was recently planted and it survived and gave limes this year.
Sorry about not keeping tracks of the temperature, but I don't think we got that cold.
In December we had freezing nights, all the way in the back is the meyer lemon with the heavy blanket on the roots, on the left side the blue box has the red lime, you can probably do something like that for your tree. just make sure is well anchored because we get a lot of wind, we put cinder blocks to hold the blue tarp in place.

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Silvia

All of your gardens are looking fabulous! Tom - I really like what you've done with the flowers along the lake edge. Looks great. Anna - I think your farm has come along quite nicely. Wes - you have to learn the trick for getting down to your garden from my neighbor. He cracks me up 'walking' around on his knees to weed because he can't bend over with his hip replacement. And Silvia, what can I say? Tomatoes and cauliflower at the same time? Oh my!

Where has November gone? Time is flying with birthdays, relatives, and more all going on at the same time. Good thing I got a head start in October. Now I need to spend Thanksgiving weekend playing catch up.

We have a lot more going on in the garden, and are getting a lot more to eat from it than we did last year. Forward progress is good. Our Myer Lemon tree was planted last fall, and was so small I put a trashcan over it when we had freezes. It did have half dozen really nice looking fruit on it. Sadly, some short stature bipedal humanoids stole all the fruit. So I am now doing Tom's trick, and picking my tomatoes to finish ripening inside.

This is part of my growing tomatoes hiding in plain sight in the front garden. I've got a Mountain Magic growing in an Earth Box and behind it a Green Zebra in a large nursery pot. I'm quite happy with how well the Mountain Magic is doing in the Earth Box. And with them tucked away under the shrub, I use the shrub for staking and the plants themselves just sort of visually melt into the background.

I am taking the Florida Master Naturalist Uplands Habitat course, so that is eating up a bunch of spare time. But I am loving every minute of it! And I really like packing my lunches with a huge fresh from the garden salad :)

~dianne

Silvia, thanks so much for the bok choy recipe. I'll be making it real soon. I had no idea that the little ones can be eaten with blooms.

Christine

Thanks Silvia,Your "tent" setup is pretty similar to what I used for covering my tangerine trees,which are a lot more cold hardy than the lemon & lime trees.
Gardengimp,I planted out my next batch of Brocolli transplants & sowed some turnips Yesterday-using the "walking on knees method".Four more weeks & I'll be allowed to bend like a normal person :)

Hi Dianne

I am so glad that your garden is doing well and congratulations on the courses you are taking, we soon will have an expert on the subject. Good for you!

You are welcome Christine

Westhamutd- I hope that you heal fast, we are getting some nice days now for the garden.

Yesterday I went to ha harvest dinner and I made 2 tomato pies and a panzanella salad, they were very good!

Silvia

I took some pictures of my very humble garden. I picked a handful of beans today. Since I'm the only one who will eat them, it's enough for dinner! :)
Here was my kale harvest:

I've started lettuces, swiss chard, and spinach recently. Here's my "pot and patio blend" starting to come up.

Sugar snap peas! Now this is something my kids will eat!!!

Lots of baby tomatoes setting up!!! This is one of my Heatwave plants that I started way back in July and managed to keep alive until it was cool enough to bloom! I still have six of these and they are all full of fruit right now. I'm very pleased!

Cauliflower, which isn't growing very much, but still looking healthy, so I don't know.

Big beautiful brocolli plant. Sure wish it would put up a head.

And this is a couple of my beefsteaks (I have nine). They aren't quite as full as the Heatwave, but they are getting there.

Some of the beans that I didn't pick! :)

Another baby squash. Maybe this will be the one that doesn't rot...have lost 3 for 3 so far.

Well, not as impressive as most of the other photos, but I'm getting very excited about my tomatoes and learning lots. :)

Becca

happy_fl_gardener,
Thanks for the offer! I think I should pass on those this year. I have to research and find out if I have room first. I have 1/4 acre and we planted around the house. What kind and do you know how tall they get?

Hi Becca

Your garden is starting to look very promising! every season you will get better and better and learn new things that will work for you. Enjoy the fresh harvest!

Here are some pics of mine today

Cauliflowers and peas are doing well

And some purple ones are showing up

I am harvesting broccoli

Cabbage

Kale

More lettuce

Silvia

Silvia ~ The cabbage seedlings that you gave me are growing nicely too. What is the variety name of the green cabbage? It seems to have crinkled leaves. The purple/white cauliflower is an interesting color combination. With all of the numerous broccoli leaves you have, do you ever cook or juice any?

Mary Ruth ~ I have two dwarf papaya varieties that I grow every year. One is Red Lady and the other is an unknown variety. Both are heavy producers.

Unknown dwarf:

Red Lady:

Christine

Wow, I hadn't checked back in a while, and I am glad I did! Christine, your garden is spectacular! Your beds look so lush and tended to. The veggies look great.

Silvia, you are amazing. I never tire of seeing your garden. I am surprised your sugar snap peas are so far along. Mine are tiny still. Same with the lettuces. All look incredible.

Romy6, I enjoyed seeing your hot peppers. Any hot dishes you'd recommend?

Anna

Thank you for looking at my peppers Anna and all the other fellow Floridians. I usually just cook my peppers on the grill ( far away from the rest of my food cause the kids ) and add to the my wife's and I's food. But I did get a nice recipe for enchiladas from a fellow chilihead. You can substitute the Butch T pepper( cannot buy this pepper at the store) with habanero.I will post a link. I also want to show off my favorite pepper I am growing. It is called the 7 pod/pot brainstrain and you can look at the pod and see why it is called that. It is one of the hottest peppers in the world. I cannot eat one whole. But my wife can.

Here is a link that might be useful: red hot enchilada's

Christine - When I was growing the seedlings I mixed them all up when transplanting them in cups, now I don't know what they are till they are bigger, like the cauliflower varieties I have early, purple, romanesco and others. Same with the cabbage I have red, savoy, two colors and others. You probably have the savoy if the leaves are crinkle.
I rarely drink fruit juice and veggie juice never, it is not very flavorful to my taste, it reminds me of medicine,-(

Anna - Thank you and tonight I had my first snap and snow peas with my salad.
I also made candied star fruit, it is so good! that we are going to give as Christmas favors with the jams and sweet and savory cookies, that is going to be a special treat.

My star fruit in the greenhouse has a lot of fruit

Candied star fruit

Romy6, nice pepper, if it is that hot better your wife eat it than me, lol. Enchiladas look good!

Silvia

Anna ~ As you noticed, I enjoy working in my garden. It's even more fun when it comes time to enjoy the "fruits of my labor". An added bonus is when I have extra to share with others. It's a challenge, but I try to make it look good since it can be seen from the street. My "back" yard is in the front.

Silvia ~ I also never tire of seeing your garden what you do with your produce. What a great idea for the carambolas. "Veggie juice tastes like medicine". That's funny. I guess it depends on the recipe. The cabbage seedling you gave me is definitely a savoy.

romy ~ Grilled peppers are great, but hot ones - not for me. But, it sounds like you really enjoy them.

Well, today in the garden, it was time to harvest some Swiss chard. The bright lights chard is growing a little faster than the perpetual chard. I cooked a big pan full and it was great to taste chard again. It's one of my favorite greens.

Christine