Bed #1 is definitely ready to be cleaned out and planted with the winter cover crop of mostly mustard.
Beyond in Bed #2 you can see the protection that I set up over the Aji pepper plants.
As you can see the protection was effective. The Aji Amarillo Grande plant is alive and well and the remaining peppers are in excellent shape. Much to my amazement they are continuing to ripen. The Baby Aji Amarillo plants are on the left, pepperless but still alive and well. And there's one Mareko Fana plant hiding in the rear on the right - it's still alive too.
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| Aji Amarillo Grande |
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| Frozen Robin Hood Fava Plant |
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| Revived Robin Hood Fava Plant |
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| Fava Blossoms |
Over in Bed #3 I've got some spinach and broccoli seedlings started under water bottle cloches.
Oh boy, do they look cold in their icy bottles. Brrr...
But both the broccoli and spinach sailed through the cold and are growing. I may be harvesting some spinach in a few weeks.
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| Spinach seedling |
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| Batavia Broccoli Seedling |
There's new seedlings hiding in water bottles in Bed # 4 also.
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| Kolibri Kohlrabi |
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| Palla Rossa Radicchio |
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| Mizunarubasoi |
Brussels Sprouts
Tronchuda Beira Cabbage
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| Dazzling Blue Kale |
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| Chard Cage |
That's the latest from my winter garden.
An early Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate.
Whoa! I just noticed that this is my 800th published post!
800! Wow! That's dedication. Is that amount of frost unusual or normal for you? The pix of the brassica above the B-sprouts is gorgeous. I like sprouts. I just made a marinated salad of them for tomorrow (traditional Christmas Eve dinner with family): sprouts, small tomatoes and mushrooms with Asian sesame dressing.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of frost is normal once or twice every winter. The brassica above the brussels sprouts is the top of the brussels sprouts plants. Tonight I've got a bunch of sprouts roasting in a cast iron pan in a hot oven with pancetta, I'itoi onions, and pine nuts. Yum!
DeleteYou're right Jane , that is a lot of dedication. I am quiet inspired by your gardening, Michelle, and your use of your produce.
ReplyDeleteIf you switch over to snapchat, or whatever works better for you, I hope you'll consider keeping this blog alive... I do use searches of your blog to get insight into growing new (to me) vegetables. Thx for the blog and happy new year
Your garden doesn't look very wintery by our standards, There's still lots going on.
ReplyDeleteYay for the pepper plants! And those brassicas are pretty with the frosty leaves, and I bet they will be all the sweeter for it. I love those bottle cloches, and it's a different kind of 'bottle garden' for sure. I hope you have an enjoyable holiday season!
ReplyDeleteKeep those peppers going all winter. I had the old VTR-95 jalapeno plants going for three years before they pooped out this year. Just doing a winter cover crop of Klondike Mustard this year, hoping to knock down root knot nematodes in our raised beds. 800 posts is amazing. I admire your dedication and enjoy reading your posts. Happy holidays and a peaceful new year!
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