Chili and vegetables winter harvest
Rooftop gardening
January 22, 2012
Every winter my chili plants on the rooftop give me the last harvest: they are few pods, mild and not so beautiful as summer ones, but it always feels like a little miracle.
 From the left: Bishop's Hat, a small green Jalapenona, Jamy and Numex Suave Orange.
It's finally time to harvest the carrots sown in the autumn: they are grown in containers on the rooftop, and give a limited but tasty harvest.
 The Cosmic Purple carrot is one of my favorites: it has purple skin and orange pulp, and a very intense flavor.
 This red carrots are new for me: they are red-pink outside, with a white core. They are very sweet, among the best I've ever tasted.
I also harvested a few radishes Munchen Bier and Watermelon, but we ate them before I remember to take some pictures.
I admit I like to collect new carrots and radishes varieties, read the posts: Colored carrots e Discover Radishes to see them all.
 A few months of laziness… and nettles has invaded many pots, especially the empty ones. Discarding all the bigger leaves and the flowering tops, I still picked up a bowl of nettle florets and I used them (along with a few leaves of borage) for the Nettles Gnocchi Carbonara.
 Broad leaf mustard (aka mustard greens or Indian mustard) is fully deserving its name: it has big, tasty leaves, 25-30 cm long. Only one plant survived, so I can harvest only a few leaves at a time, perfect as a fresh addition to a sandwich.
Carrots and radishes: 240g
Chilies: 90g
Total 330g (plus nettle, borage and mustard)
This harvest joins to Harvest Mondays.
 Clearing weeds from the pots, I found out that my yellow strawberry plant -that didn't produce anything last spring- in January is full of these little unripe strawberries. I don't think it's the right time for strawberries, but who knows…
 One year ago:
January gardening tips: Indoor sowing
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