Ripe and Unripe Tomatoes and a Harvest

Besides watching a seed burst out of fertile soil, or that seedling grow into a producing plant, my next favorite part is when it is finally time to pick ripe fruit and veggies. Oh, and cutting herbs like parsley and mint, or hmmm... lettuce.

Here are a few pictures of one of my harvests.  Feast your eyes!

This is the inside of my fridge after a very busy day of harvesting.  Weslee doesn't like watermelon or cantaloupe but I managed to grow a few sugar baby watermelons, a few crenshaw muskmelons (cantaloupes), and a few golden watermelons. Loving the radishes too (ready to slice and pickle!). 

Just a quick harvest before the first frost. just a quick harvest before a freeze. Notice the yellow pear tomatoes, orange slicer, and small eggplant. PLUS - our pride and joy, besides the several small orange carrots, we managed to grow 2 atomic red carrots (top of plate) and some cremey-white carrots (just under the red carrots). We also pulled up 2 tiny sweet potatoes, and two small red-bunching onions - very potent!

This is a colander of green (unripe) tomatoes I picked just after a first frost. The plants survived (barely) under two blankets and a big piece of plastic. It was too much work to try to save the plants, and I didn't have room to bring the pots inside. So I picked these to dehydrate then grind into powder. Green tomato powder is added to my all-vegg powder, and also kept separately to add depth to soups and stews. It's not very tasty by itself, and I haven't yet experimented with making green tomato preserves.

Growing Radishes for a Spicy Hot

I was looking through my favorite heirloom seed provider (hoping hoping there were some seeds still left to but!), and couldn't believe my eyes!

Looks like these are new for 2020. 

This little gem of a radish is touted as being as hot and delicious as wasabi and horseradish!

Most preppers make sure they have a good amount of rice stored, and some might even have soy sauce and a very few, seaweed. You could go fishing for bass or crappie, and grow carrots.  All of these ingredients could make a delicious sushi / sashimi but wouldn't it be better with 'wasabi' and pickled ginger?

So...grow your own wasabi!

P.S. I ordered these seeds and started a few minutes of them on March 16. They are growing very well.


Link for seeds:
https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/new-items-2020/japanese-wasabi-radish