Winter Garden Update

 

I can't bear to look inside, after several days of sub-freezing temperatures. Guess I should have doubled up, with row cover in addition to greenhouse covers.

 

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Do in Review

All of the 2012 retrospective posts I've been seeing inspired me to take a look myself. Knowing the growth this garden is capable of gets me through the dreary winter! Granted, this was not the best year--summer hosted a plethora of problems, such a poor production, disease, and the rabbit plague. However, I'll never be without greens, and there's always next summer...

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Winter Garden Update

Look at these lovely greens! They may be growing slowly, but with these mostly new varieties, plus the old standbys of lettuce, kale, and arugula, I have enough to take some trimmings now and then, and they should explode with growth by March. (Fingers crossed no arctic blast is coming!)

Tokyo Bekana--a loose Chinese cabbage for salads or cooking

Slowly growing Brussels sprouts

tat soi--also good raw or cooked

Fava beans--blooming too early?

An assortment of pak choy, tat soi, and komatsuna (I think)

Turnips, plus some self-seeded mache in the corner

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The Year-Round Alyssum

Still blooming!

 

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New Year's Day Harvest

In addition to this paltry cup of black eyed peas I stored in fall--all the rabbits let me have and soon to be consumed as Hoppin' Johns--we're eating fresh-picked kale (collards were planted too late, and green is green, y'all). I also plucked several leeks and cut some lettuce and parsley. I'm most excited about the assortment of Asian greens that will go in a noodle soup later this week--flowers and all. The tat soi seems to be prone to bolting, so it was a good opportunity to thin, but the pak choy and the rest are doing great in their greenhouses, with just a few pak choy and Chinese broccoli bolting. Photos to come when the Sun deigns to show its face and temps rise above 35!

Happy 2013!

 

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