Bacon 🥓 & Garden Winding Down

[16Adams]

A few tomatoes still coming in. Big Jim green chile, still a few to pick and roast. Jalapeño didn’t do great this year and a few mutant cucumbers. Realized I never got around to having a BLT this year. Wife asked me to cook the bacon and slice the tomato. She would handle the egg and building my half sandwich.
Gotta love bacon

 

[Mike in Roseville]

Now that is breakfast!

 

[bschoen]

My garden was punk this year. Only a handfull of cucumbers and my okra never grew more than inches. Last year the okra plants were over 5 feet. Peppers - habanero, jalapeno, serano, poblano - were at about 1/2 of last years yield. Weird summer.

 

[16Adams]

We had a lengthy stretch of triple digit and upper 90’s with no humidity that pretty much knocked it down. Where I live lack of humidity and high heat will stunt it. We call ours a Salsa garden. Tomato peppers cucumbers garlic onion and cilantro. Nothing big.

 

[Mike in Roseville]

My garden was punk this year. Only a handfull of cucumbers and my okra never grew more than inches. Last year the okra plants were over 5 feet. Peppers - habanero, jalapeno, serano, poblano - were at about 1/2 of last years yield. Weird summer.

Agreed. I had a very similar result here as well. Okra didn't do too much and the cukes turned bitter quickly. Cherry tomatoes yielded a decent harvest. The eggplant harvests were the one bright spot; better than average yields all summer.

 

[Shiz-Nit]

Looking good

 

[jzadski]

Great looking BLT and better late than never. We had our share this year and sad it's coming to an end

 

[Moose]

When I first read the title of your thread, I thought it said "Bacon Garden", sadly, I was mistaken.



Even still, nice sammich!

 

[Titch]

That sandwich looks great, the bread looks interesting, what sort?

 

[16Adams]

She said it's called Oat-Nut bread

 

[CivilTrojan]

When I first read the title of your thread, I thought it said "Bacon Garden", sadly, I was mistaken.



Even still, nice sammich!

Bacon garden?!? I know what I’m dreaming of tonight...


Sandwich looks great!

 

[lawndog19]

My garden was punk this year. Only a handfull of cucumbers and my okra never grew more than inches. Last year the okra plants were over 5 feet. Peppers - habanero, jalapeno, serano, poblano - were at about 1/2 of last years yield. Weird summer.

I put shade cloth over mine which helped I planted grape vines next to the boxes and ran wire across so that will provide some cover when it fills in

 

[cowgirl]

Looks delicious Adams!!
The 100+ heat did a job on my garden too. I build shades which helped some, but didn't get the usual harvest this year.

 

[BBQ Bacon]

Nicely done. Fresh tomatoes are the best.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

Very nice Few things better than a home grown tomato