First cantaloupe of the year.  Probably needed another 48 hours, but everything is real wet and also have some bugs starting to invade.  Not been a real great year for the garden -- cold and wet May, a couple of horrific windstorms, and then hail a few weeks ago.  Only starting to get a few tomatoes, peppers aren't doing much and it looks like no watermelons. Bummer!

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It was pretty tasty, but really hard fruit!

Harvested, cleaned, baked and prepped our first pimento harvest. All those pimentos only made one small jar.  Then made homemade pimento cheese with an Allrecipes "Southern Pimento Cheese " recipe.  Had to use nearly the whole jar just for this small amount of pimento cheese.

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And I thought we were going to be over run with 3 pimento plants, wont be enough!

I had no idea what a Pimento looked like. Now I know.

Sandia had 2 varieties, Sweet & Pimento Sheepnose.  When I ordered they had only the later.  The sweet look more like a smaller bell pepper.

Sandia had 2 varieties, Sweet & Pimento Sheepnose.  When I ordered they had only the later.  The sweet look more like a smaller bell pepper.

They look similar to what I have seen called a Cherry Pepper.  I know the flavor of a pimento in olives has no spice at all.  Cherry peppers are apparently 5x-10x a pimento, and closer to a jalapeno heat ranking.

This year crop grown around us was Corn. It will not be planted again for at least 2 years as it deplets nitrogen from the soil, and the Soybeans that will be planted it its place will add nitrogen.  So had to get next years "crop" this year.  I have a mower with a bagger, so I have collected grass trimmings all year and try and turn it into compost/mulch.  The last photo is the corn & grass clipping, you can see the different color on the right side.  The other 2 will be used for next years trimmings.  Have never had enough brown matter to add to the green matter to do a good job with the compost.  Will see this Spring if the corn waste works.  Corn is technically a grass, but I am hoping it is going to act like leaves.  Will try and take a photo each time I turn it to show you how it breaks down.  1st photo has had no water applied, and will only get rain water.

From right to left. Poblano top, Pasilla & Jalapeño bottom, Guajillo center and Paprika top and Hatch bottom on left.

That amount of peppers would last me 20 years.
That is a lot of heat.

That amount of peppers would last me 20 years.
That is a lot of heat.

Lots of peppers but mild for the most part.  I'm curious to see how they are utilized.

When they are dried they dont go very far.  The paprika on the left, when that is dried and ground it will probably be 1 cup!

We inherited a garden with the new house.
Lots of chilies, some cherry tomatoes, broccoli, and cauliflower.
Also have peach, apple, and pear trees (one of each).
Next year no broccoli or cauliflower.  They take up too much space for such a small area.

Those are nice beds!