Peppers galore!

We've got peppers out the wazoo! They aren't quite ready to be picked but in a couple of weeks it's pickling and salsa making time. That is unless they turn in to vapor from this HEAT!

Santa Fe Grande peppers. There are probably 40 peppers tucked in there.

Bull Nose Bells. They should turn red.

This tomato might take the prize for largest tomato from our garden. We'll see if she beats last years prize winner.

Kung Pao Peppers.

More Santa Fe Grande peppers and the lone okra that I have harvested so far.

you say tomato...

My tomato and pepper plants are here! I ordered them from Seed Savers Exchange quite a few months ago. They arrived a few days ago in a cardboard box ready to be put in the ground. In hindsight, it probably would have been more sustainable for me to get my starter plants locally but I really love to support Seed Savers. Their plants are heirloom varieties, meaning that the seeds are saved from year to year to maintain the integrity of that particular variety. I ordered Orange Bell, Sweet Chocolate and Wenk's Yellow Hot peppers and Gold Medal, Velvet Red and Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I hope they are productive so that I can share them with friends, can them, cook with them and eat them!