It's fall, which means time to harvest. We have a garden in the backyard and this year planted tomatoes, zucchini, squash, beets, cucumbers, peppers, and garlic. Most of the flowering/climbing plants were a disaster. The tomato plants didn't produce and the cucumbers and beets got eaten (despite having chicken wire fencing around the garden). We did get a couple of small peppers and squash and a few zucchini..
The garlic, which we planted last fall, and the potatoes turned out well. (The potatoes were in planters).
The last crop wasn't strictly a garden crop. We've had Jerusalem artichokes growing along the fences for several years and have harvested them before. You can mash them just like potatoes. This year we got a bumper crop.
I roasted some for supper, following this recipe, and they were delicious.
This week's photo is in honour of our final harvest. It wasn't such a bad year after all.
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