Garden: Second Week in July

The garden is growing fast.  I thought I should share some of the plants each week, these were taken this morning. 

 Here is the zucchini.  I have two plants and each one has a bunch of zucchinis on it.  

I also have a bunch of hot peppers that are looking good.  The front plant has ones that will turn red.  I plan to dry them out. I haven't had a pepper plant before that grows the peppers pointy end up... 

The plant in the back also has a bunch of peppers, I plan to make bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers this weekend....though looking at that picture they don't look like jalapenos, probably should have kept that label.... 

And then I saw the broccoli.  I was hoping I could leave it until Sunday before picking it, but this morning I saw that I couldn't wait that long. The florets turn to flowers in about a day if you don't catch them soon enough.  I trimmed almost all of it off that two plants.  I took some of it for a snack (its gone already) and boiled water to blanch the rest of it.  

Then I vacuumed sealed it and put it in the freezer.  I read that if you plan to freeze vegetables for more than a month or two that they should be blanched because otherwise they turn bitter.  Which I think happened to the brussel sprouts last year.  It made for a hectic morning. But I look forward to having some home grown broccoli in the dead of winter next year.