ending of the summer garden

With the economy and rate of inflation we are so thankful for our garden and the bounty of it. We are still harvesting cherry/grape tomatoes and peppers (sweet banana and Leysa) The Leysa peppers were are using in our daily salads and for cooking. The bulk of the banana peppers, we are fermenting as well as the bulk of the cherry/grape tomatoes. We harvested our last Petit Gris melon this weekend with two more watermelon and two more cantaloupe in the garden. We have in storage butternut squash, spaghetti squash and candy roaster squash, as well as several squash cut and frozen.

During the summer we canned, figs (preserves and relish), salsa and spaghetti sauce and pickled peppers. We fermented green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. We froze tomatoes and green beans. My hand was broken at the peak of the summer harvest so many of our vegetables (canned and fresh) were given away due to the abundance and a multitude of  thanks to those who drove us to appointments and shopping.