It has been about a month ago as I had written last time about my journey or growing and harvesting peppers and how the months prior to the harvesting had looked like, starting it all from scratch.
At the time of writing it was getting towards the end of summer with just a couple of warmer days to go. Peppers like heat and they like sun, so I thought that would be the last of it all.
But I was wrong, way wrong, and my pepper plants were just a lot more resilient than I had expected I must admit!
Thanks to the neverending Indian summer the plants just got enough of sun and heat to continue growing. There were some flowers and small fruits on there at the time still, and in the last couple of weeks they have developed to a nice harvest again.
The habanero is scorching hot and I am staying far away from those ones, they green habanero is from the same plant but they weren't as ripe as yet, so they are still a bit milder.
All of them are ending up in the oven again to dry and preserve them for winter time so over the winter there will always be enough heat hanging around!
Boohhhh tomato
The tomato plant was not that lucky this year, and it has a bit to do with that it was very wet in juli and tomato plants really so not like rain on their heads.
But it also has something to do with the placement of where the plants stands.
When you look at this green one here beneith it seems like we would be fine right?
I had a lot of small fruits eventually growing (half of August which is just way too late in the season) but they never really passed the green phase as the sun was getting weaker already.
This red guy here below is literally the only one that has turned red, and since he was on the ground already not by my doing, I don't think I will be eating this guy anymore. Boooh!!
Ow wait...I found two other red tomatoes further back in the bush, but as you can see they have started to wrinkle and shrink already and they look more like they have spent some time in the oven already. Hmmm, these guys are gone as well.
On further inspection of the bush this is how most of the green tomatoes look like now. They have started to spoil and rot already, and you can also see that they plant is starting to waste away already. Most of the energy of the plant is registered towards the fruits, but still this isn't enought anymore.
It is just too late unfortunately!
A good season!
Timing in growing food in the Netherlands remains key. And honestly, I think it was still a grande success this year as you can see here!
Blackberries
Paksoi
Snaps
So new attempt next year? Heck yeah I am going to give it another try with all of the wisdom I have learned in this year. And with replacing the location of the soil I am thinking this also might help in the late year when the sun is getting lower already.
But everything in total, this was a grande success!