Good for you! 
I hope you enjoyed your meal of eggs and asparagus. I planted some asparagus last spring, in a raised bed. It will take a couple more years to get going, but, I cant wait till they mature as it is one of my favorite vegetables. I have a few mature plants growing in my GH, but they get shaded out by my grapevine. At the old farmhouse, my MIL had planted a bed of asparagus many moons ago, but the grass seemed to overtake much of the bed, but still, I managed to get enough each spring to make a few asparagus omelettes.
Wow! You had a great harvest on your peppers and carrots! Wonderful Antmary.
I still have some Mara Des Bois Strawberries flowering and producing despite the freezing temps we have had over the last month. Granted, not a lot, but boy are they good to snack on this late in the season.
I also have a couple beds of Tall Utah celery. I have been cutting off some stalks on the outside edges all summer and into fall. I dug up a few plants and placed them roots and all in a bucket of cool water, and left them in my kitchen for a week just snipping off what I needed at the time. I also chopped some up, leaves and all, and froze them in baggies for winter stews etc. Unfortunately, the turkeys got in my garden over the last few days and had a picnic with what was left. 
They should grow back from the roots in the spring as long as I cover them up with some deep flakes of straw. At least I hope they will!
I thought I planted some delphiniums in a bed by the house. I planted some by seed in late winter and they all came up. I transplanted them when they were a foot tall. They did wonderful, but the leaves sure looked similar to celery. Well I waited all summer, and sure enough it turns out I had transplanted celery in that bed. The cups were marked delphiniums… I am scratching my head on that one, because I am always careful with transplanting and my delphiniums that came up are no where to be seen…Ughh… I will try to germinate more delphiniums this winter. I grew some from seed back in the late eighties and I had a beautiful bed full of them back at the old farmhouse.
I was surprised to find my ‘Mara des Bois’ were also blooming and fruiting. The berries are still delicious in November!
Mine too, not that many, but a few.
Here’s my stash from my berry harvest. I also made about 30 jars of jam and ate fresh berries daily, and still had this much to freeze. I was digging out a turkey buried on the bottom of my freezer, so thought I would take some photos.
I have to finish the walls in my garage one of these days…
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That’s a lots of berries, Drew!
Yeah really too many! I have no idea what to do with them all? I’m making golden raspberry jam and musk strawberry preserves tonight. The wife is going to dinner with work friends (she recently left her job, they miss her! She secured another job.) So it’s pizza and jam making for me tonight! I’m getting boring in my old age for a weekend. i will be kicking out the jams the whole time too 
I love jam, any kind, especially concord grapes jam thickly lathering on one slide of freshly baked breads and again thickly lathering butter on the other slide. Couple them up and wash them down with a cup of whole milk.
Oh man! Nothing can beat that!
Homemade concord grape jelly is really good! I used to make it but I now use the vine as a rootstock, or will soon. I had a seeded variety, with very thick skin. it was only good for jam. Maybe juice too.
It was the best grape jelly or jam i ever had though. I may grow it again, I have yet to graft a variety on it. I just keep in small and cut it down every year till I need it.
IL.
What Kind of dishes can you use sun chokes?
Tony
I’m just about to ask the same question! How do you prep it for foods? Just like potatoes/replacement?
Tom
Tony,
I didn’t save any pepper plant but I still have 2 more lemongrass bushes to dig up before hard freeze, coming soon! I just heard on radio that Nebraska is going to have snow this weekend! Looks like you’re going to move lots of stuff in door now…
I’m just no big fan of cold weather. Wished I chose Florida to settle when I was younger!
Tom
Tony, Tom Sun choke contains no sugar so it is very good for diabetics. Of course, I did not start to grow sunchoke for this purpose. It was the curiosity made me start to grow and now I can stop it, it grows all over the garden plot! 
Come to think of it, I had a few other plants that I started as curiosity and end with out of control 
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It can be eaten raw in salad tossed with some crushed fresh hot pepper, some olive oil and other herb you like; can be baked like potatoes, with meat, or cooked in soup; I usually pickle it in vinegar/sugar solution with some turmeric, clove and bay leaves, it is very crunchy and tasty as a side dish; Many of my friends just slice it and pickle it in soy sauce/soy paste and add some hot pepper paste if one likes hot taste. This is very cold hardy and reliable root crop and very productive!
Does it taste like water-chestnut?
Tony, I grow this type of hot pepper too in pot. I am running out of space inside with 40 more pots of tea trees move into the house. I usually trim the pepper plants after the leaves fell and stuck the whole pot into dark basement till next spring.
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Similar crunchiness, but has more earthy taste. Its skin is very thin and dry very fast, just few hours in air, the skin will turn dark and the tuber will become softer.
Tom, you have been spoiled this year. In mid of Nov, we still have 50+ weather in Chicago, I really don’t have much to complain about. Except the upper 20+ dip few days ago did bad damage on my orchids inside of popup green house. Leaves all turn brown .