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The month begins with me removing one of the Pepper plants, the most productive one and harvesting a huge broccoli and some spinach. The day after my birthday I made stuffed green peppers using my harvest of peppers from this one plant!
It has been a typical month weather wise. We have had some beautiful days but the days grow shorter and the sun is lower in the sky. Even with full sun it doesn't get much above the mid-sixties. We are having some beautiful crisp clear mornings.
As I prepare to put the garden to bed for the winter I have found a inexpensive soil testing company that promises to give me specifics on the essential ingredients of the garden soil and what to add to improve it's composition.
I'm really sold on the late broccoli and spinach crops and I am satisfied with the pepper plants I started from seed.
I harvested some beautiful red Habanero Caribbean Peppers. I tried to use one in some hashbrown potatoes and just half of one pepper without the seeds made the potatoes inedible they were so hot. WOW!! Cooking the hashbrowns filled the kitchen with steam that choked my mother and gabriela.
At the very end of the month, a month with average rain, I harvested the last of the peppers and some spinach.
The soil test gave me the green thumb award. My work over the last year has the soil rich and full of organic material. Very little to add to the garden this year except some ground cover, leaves.
The Peppers were stuffed and enjoyed!!
