Harvest Monday October 28, 2024

It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. First, a little update. Like I’ve been doing for several years now,  I’ve decided to take a break from the Harvest Monday posts for the winter months, until next February. I’ll be back with Harvest Monday on February 3rd, 2025. Until then, I will post here about other garden news as it happens, and you can always follow my Facebook page and Instagram feed for harvests and other garden news. Thanks to all for reading and participating in this celebration of the harvest that has been going since 2009. Now, on to my meager harvests!

I got another big harvest of persimmons last week from our little tree. I’ve gotten 14 pounds of them so far this season, and the tree is still loaded. We had friends visiting us last week and I sent a bunch home with them. We also enjoyed persimmon bread and persimmon cookies while they were here.

persimmons

And I also made a cutting of lettuce for our salads. This time I cut the green leaf Slo-bolt and the red Cherokee. These have both done well, and I sent some extra seeds for them home with our friends as well.

Slo-bolt and Cherokee lettuce

I got a few more hot Peppers from the Sugar Rush Peach plant that has been super productive this year. I’ve made a lot of hot sauce with this variety, which is about all I do with it since it’s too hot for my tastes to eat raw or dried and made into powder.

Sugar Rush Peach peppers

That’s all I harvested last week. Our friends Steve and Sharon drove up from Alabama to visit us for a few days, and we were busy showing them the sights around our area. My wife made some fabric art of a photo of the four of us horseback riding together back in summer, and I made a wooden frame to match the fabric. It was a fun way to memorialize our fun trip to the Cumberland Falls area, and my first time up on a horse in many years!

art piece

horseback riding

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!

 




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