Cool, Cool Harvest

The cool weather we have had for the past few weeks has really effected (affected??) our garden.  This the harvest we had about a month and a half ago when it was still above 100 each day.  We thought this was a great harvest, given that it was really hot and that it's our very first vegetable garden.  

There are a few banana peppers, jalapenos, and some eggplants.   Then the cool weather started, and I was hopeful that it would cause our garden to perk up and start producing.  It did, here's a picture of our cucumber plant from "underneath".  Remember I arched some wire mesh so that the plants would have something to grow on, this created a little "cave-like" area.  It's pretty cool because it allows the cucumbers to hang down when they get large enough, as you can see in the picture.  

If you look really hard you can see about six or seven cucumbers, and a couple of eggplants in the background.   Today I go out side to see what I could get to add to our harvest, and I came up with this group.

 

There are four cucumbers (about 20 more still growing on the vine), seven eggplants (about seven more on the plant), a large pile of Serrano(?) peppers that I've already prepped for drying, and some ornamental peppers.

 

Here's a closer look at those ornamental peppers, there are some pretty cool colors growing on that little plant.   Our jalapenos used to be in the cucumber cave, but since they didn't get any light they weren't producing hardly anything.  So we moved them to where the lettuce and corn used to be, in hopes that they will put out some peppers.  We also planted some lettuce in the cucumber cave, thinking that they don't need a lot of light (direct light anyway) so they might do well there.  I think I'll go put some carrots under there as well.

 

Last is the banana pepper plant that has been steadily producing all summer.  So far I've pickled three medium size jars of them, one whole, two sliced.  As you can see I've already been at the whole ones, that's why it looks foggy it's the condensation from being in the refrigerator (they were pickled about a month ago, the other two were about a week ago and will be done in about three weeks).