For the most part, the summer garden is done with. The only thing that loves this Texas heat are my peppers. Since getting my cast off, I've really wanted to get out in the garden (because who wants to garden with a heavy, hot, sweaty cast!). So earlier this week, the boys helped me weed some beds and I gathered the last few bits of summer from the garden.
Beautiful and fragrant Holy Basil for winter teas.
Besides the peppers, my herbs are the only plants still going strong.
Due to the pandemic, many seed companies are sold out due to panic buying. But if you already have a garden, it's as simple as letting a bit of your harvest dry on the vine. With a handful of our favorite pole beans, we'll have way more seed than we need for next year.
Same with the cucumbers. Just let them over ripen on the vine and harvest hundreds of seeds. And although I wish I could say this was all an experienced gardener's calculated move...
in honest, I simply let my garden go to hell because it was to hot to tend to it!
I even harvested the sunflower seeds that the birds didn't take!
I love that the garden is so forgiving.
Even if you neglect it, you still can reap it's bounty.
One fun project I did was stringing chili peppers for drying. It's the first time I've dried peppers this way and I can't believe I haven't done it sooner. When these beauties are dried, it'll be just in time to make the mole sauce for our Christmas tamales!
And you better believe I'm going to be saving those seeds!
I might even just leave it hanging in my kitchen so I can save the remnants of summer just a little longer.
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