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Still no freeze yet so peppers are still coming out of the garden. Got one batch of hot sauce fermenting and more to do.

Have I mentioned the crows are bringing us all the walnuts from the neighbor’s tree? We have walnut sprouts popping up all over the yard from last year’s walnut deliveries.

First time successfully growing leeks! They grew well at the base of the desert king fig tree. Started from seed in early February. Variety is Broad London.

It was a beautiful fall day yesterday. It got up to 71 F, a temp we likely won’t see again until next year. The bees took advantage and got out to do some foraging.

The poblano plant didn’t get very big but it did produce a fair amount of peppers for its size. These were the last three harvested and one was entered into @chillichump’s poblano competition. I don’t think mine is the biggest but it was fun to participate. You can see my video entry on my gapeygrub channel.

It’s all about the peppers this time of year. Trying to get them processed every way I can. These guys went into the @excaliburdehydrator while some others are fermenting for hot sauce and a pile waiting for me to do something with. The Aleppo, guajillo, holy mole and sandia are getting turned into powder. I’ll keep the Aleppo separate and the other 3 will be ground up together.

Look at this beautiful Pepper I made! We call it the sugar tangerine splash. I may have made it on accident but I’ll take it! I sent some aji tangerine seeds to @puskay_rastut that I had saved and this is what came out of them. The aji tangerine accidentally crossed with its neighbor, the sugar rush stripe. She sent me some f2 seeds she saved from it and the stripes have come through. Will definitely grow the f3 next season!

We had a close call last night. It got down to 32.0 F so I picked all the ripe or nearly ripe peppers outside of the greenhouse and covered them up. They appear to have survived the night. We should be ok for the next several days as rain has returned so it’s not as cold. Will need to pick more soon. Has your garden froze yet?

Look who finally decided to ripen! This is the last pepper to ripen. It’s was very slow to set pods but it has quite a few now and am hoping to get a few more ripe before it freezes in the greenhouse. This one is called ‘Peachy’ from Tony Sherwood. It’s a cross between carboruga red and Trinidad moruga white. I’m thinkin’ it’s a hot one. Thanks to @condolf61 for the seeds.

It’s goji berry season! It’s the last berry to ripen in the garden and will keep going until we get a hard freeze. This variety is called sweet lifeberry and grows great in the shade and is drought tolerant. Didn’t water it all season and we had a very dry summer.

Happy #figfriday! This is what I’ve been waiting for! Figs dripping with syrup! It’s a little surprising cuz this Roberts Golden Rainbow still feels fairly firm. The skin was still a little rough but the inside was just right. But it dropped off the tree so what you gonna do? This humidity, rain and cool weather aren’t ideal for figs but we’re still getting some edible fruits off some of them.

Have you ever seen potato seeds? Did you know you can grow potatoes from these? They're called True Potato Seeds (TPS). If you've ever seen your potato plants produce berries at the end of the season after flowering, that's where potato seeds come from and you can grow them like any other seed and get actual potatoes out of them. You may or not get a good crop and you likely won't get the same variety you saved the seeds from. The seeds I planted this spring came from russet potato berries from a neighbor cuz ours never seem to produce the berries and I wanted to try growing them. We did end up getting one single berry from the satina variety this year though. I've been told satina requires another variety to cross pollinate it but not all potato varieties are that way. Since I grew 3 other varieties this year, I'm exciting to see what we end up with next season. If you want to see more, I posted a harvest video today.

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