Joe

Chicago weather forecast

We could be in for a doozy tonight. 😳 We haven’t gotten a real snowstorm in Chicago for years, or even much snow at all. Crazy to think the winter opener could be a big one.

#chicago #weather #snowstorm

Ain’t that the truth!

Chilaca/pasilla peppers

So many peppers! First real freeze tomorrow so we’re doin the last garden harvest of the season today. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Yeah I need to dig up my pepper plants before it freezes here.

YouTube video by Dead On A Sunday "...Baby Enjoy The Silence One More Time" (Britney Spears X Depeche Mode Cover/Mashup)

These two songs shouldn’t work together, but it’s a banger! youtu.be/CVv8Z4_hsAU?...

#music #deadonasunday #mashup

Fresh garden tomato picked in November.

Yes it’s 3 weeks to December and I’m still picking tomatoes. Crazy times. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

I hear yeah. I’d be fine with these 60s all winter!

Weather in Chicago

It’s short sleeves this week and snow shovels by the weekend. Currently being forecasted that we’ll get 7” of snow sunday/monday 😆

#chicago #Weather

When you go to urgent care cause you woke up with bad pain in your right side and the doctor isn’t sure which side the gallbladder is on, would it be rude to ask for a different doctor? Yikes!

#healthcare

😆 That’s awesome. I laugh right along with her.

Carrot with interesting growth pattern.

I tend to leave one or two carrots in the ground to seed out the next season. I moved a raised bed recently and this carrot trunk abomination was right in the way. 😳

#zone6 🌱 #gardeningfeed

Yeah the extended summer sure is making things weird.

I agree. I assume they use temperature to know when to leave.

It’s a week to November and we are finally getting some cold nights. But here in the Chicago area I’m still seeing monarch butterflies. In my non butterfly professional opinion, that seems very late for them to still be around here. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Decided to get out of our normal concrete jungle and traffic, and go to a forest preserve for our walk. My girl Jinx was overloaded with new smells and didn’t know where to sniff next. 😆

She also saw deer for the first time.

#bordoodle #dog #pets

Thank you 🤗

Green tomatillo fruit

Using up a bunch of late harvests and fermenting into hot sauce. Tomatillos, garlic, onion, jalapeno, poblano, and chilaca chilis. Then will add cilantro and maybe a bell pepper at the end when I blend.

🌱 🍽️ #zone6 #gardeningfeed #hotsauce #fermenting

Used them in some salsas, fermented into hot sauce, but dehydrated most of them for mole and enchilada type sauces.

It definitely outshined my other pepper plants.

I’m definitely growing these chilaca/pasilla peppers again next year. I have never seen a pepper plant put out so many peppers before. They take forever to mature though. They’re plenty hot in the green stage but when they turn brown is the best flavor. 🌱 #zone6. #gardeningfeed #peppers

Music hardneck garlic cloves fall planting.

Today we tuck the music garlic in for its long winter nap. 😴

🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Red bell pepper

Well isn’t this the cutest little red bell pepper I’ve ever seen. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Large radish

Cleaning up the garden a bit and found this huge radish hiding amongst some weeds. Sneaky! 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed

Ground up dried mature shishito peppers

Ground up the dried shishitos into paprika and it is such a pretty red. I might have to make some paprikash with it. 🌱 #zone6 🍽️

I’d say about 6 hours or so.

Yeah these ones I let go fully mature/red so they’re sweeter.

Mature shishito peppers being dehydrated

Today is shishito drying day for some homemade paprika. 🌱 #zone6

We were 5b and are now 6a I think. You can really tell things have changed since we hardly get hardly any snow anymore. Which sucks cause I love snow.

Or fried green tomatoes. Yum!!!

Fresh tomatoes from the garden.

It’s almost the middle of October and here I am still harvesting tomatoes. Thats crazy! #zone6 #gardeningfeed 🌱