Harvest

 In October we harvested our garden of unripe cantaloupe and green tomatoes. I tried one of the cantaloupe; it tasted like cucumber. Blech. Not sure what went on there. Neither of our pepper plants survived. Out pumpkins came toward the middle of the month.

Patrick used the red tomatoes to make a sweet salsa (we didn't have any hot peppers on hand). We were able to ripen some of the tomatoes in the garage. We also chopped up a couple quarts of the green ones. We experimented with green tomato bread and cake recipes. Both turned out extremely moist and reminiscent of zucchini bread due to the spices used. I froze several bags of chopped green tomatoes to use later as well.

Later we got a bushel and a half of apples from Patrick's parents. I made applesauce, frozen apple crisps, and apple butter. Mmm. Apple butter is like fall in a jar. It is rather anticlimactic to have a slow cooker full of apples turn out only 2.5 pints of brown goodness.