Winter Garden Update

It has been three months since we got the seeds in the ground for our winter garden.  Things have come along nicely and with fairly minimal input. (Except for a couple minor mishaps involving a certain dog and some of his friends.  Sorry peas!)

   

It always feels like a slow start when you're waiting to eat from the garden, but so far we've been able to sample  some beautiful beets and beet greens, some carrots, turnips, arugula, a bit of chard, and some radishes on hot buttered toast.  But the real bounty is just starting to be unleashed.

I am personally setting my sites on the cauliflower.

Still attempting to get into the habit of having a perpetual garden that is edited and re-seeded on the regular (as opposed to once a season), I spent some time last weekend tidying the vegetable beds.  Among other things, I harvested all of the turnips to make turnip pickles and got a good bit of new seed in the ground.

• In the lower bed
• 1 row heirloom shelling peas  (Renee's Garden)
• 1 row Tonda di Parigi carrots  (Renee's Garden)
• 1 row French Breakfast radishes  (Seed Savers)
• Filled in 1 row of Cosmic Purple carrots  (Renee's Garden)
• 1 row purple top white globe turnips (Seed Savers)
• 1 row Chef's Choice cauliflower  (Renee's Garden)
• 3 Mammoth Red Rock cabbages  (Seed Savers)
• 2 Copenhagen Market cabbages  (Seed Savers)
• 1 row 1/2 Chioggia & 1/2 Burpee's Golden beets (Seed Savers)
• In the upper bed
• 1 row Rouge d'hiver Romaine lettuce  (Renee's Garden)
• Herb Garden
• Dill  (Ferry Morse)