Fall Harvest

So I haven't gone up to my garden lately because I figured we were done with it. Since we didn't have any pumpkins survive the dry weather we had this summer I didn't bother to check on anything left up there. Well, yesterday my children surprised me by bringing me some green peppers. They informed me that there were green tomatoes all over the tomato vines as well. I told them to go ahead and pick what was there and that we would just ripen them in the house. I was afraid if I left them the frost might get them and I'd lose what was there. So, this is what I had after they brought in everything. Amazing, I went from thinking I had nothing to having all this.

More Garden Fun

So yesterday we decided to take care of some garden harvesting. Since it's still only the beginning of our harvest we are just starting to get a few things.

Picking green beans with the kiddos

Kaitlyn picking green beans

After we got back in the house we cut and cleaned our green beans added them to what we had gathered the other day and had enough to can 5 quart jars. I was so excited because it was the first time I had ever canned green beans as well as the first time I had gotten to use my new pressure canner. It was very simple and now I can't wait to do more canning.

My canned green beans (don't they look great!)

So for supper that night I decided to use some more garden goodies and we had quiche with zucchini and cheese. I also cooked up a batch of green beans that wouldn't fit into another jar for canning. They turned out great, everyone loved the quiche and asked for seconds.

Zucchini and cheese quiche

Supper plate, quiche with garden fresh green beans. Yum!