1st harvest of 2016...

Good for you!

Major, I was a complete zero last year in the garden, but I can join you this year. I should be back on track this spring and I hope for a good fall/winter garden too.

I planted carrots in the fall and they grew all winter. I grew the Cosmic Purple and made carrot salad with them. The purple sure made it pretty.

baymule said:

Major, I was a complete zero last year in the garden, but I can join you this year. I should be back on track this spring and I hope for a good fall/winter garden too.

I planted carrots in the fall and they grew all winter. I grew the Cosmic Purple and made carrot salad with them. The purple sure made it pretty.

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people are so funny or should i say curious about adding different colored veggies beyond the usual .. dw was brought up on red beets, grew golden beets all she could say beets are beets now she likes the golden ones...go figure. might mess with her head and grow white ones....
it's all about presentation ...

A couple of years ago I grew purple cauliflower. Mixed with either broccoli or shredded carrots, it made the most beautiful salads! Mmmmm...... some raisins, pecans and sunflower seeds..... man I miss my garden! I can't wait for spring!

majorcatfish said:

.. dw was brought up on red beets, grew golden beets all she could say beets are beets now she likes the golden ones...go figure. might mess with her head and grow white ones....
it's all about presentation ...

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Yes, but the gold and white ones have all the great beet taste without the red staining. I really like them all, but the red are messier.

with this weeks lows in the upper teens a couple nights...did a quick peak under the plastic this afternoon most of the oakleaf is mostly toast, the butterhead took a little beating but fine and the beets about the same. a couple bok chio has gone to seed...

That is a whole lot of beautiful!! Jealous...

Nothing like that here in Wisconsin.

1/29/16 winter garden update....
last week we had the big snow, with lows in the upper teens and highs in the upper 20's was only able to get the ice off the plastic since the rest was still under snow and have been out of town since tuesday. have today off drove into town got a haircut came home decided to pull the plastic off and see what was still alive...

most everyone took a beating... still was happy to see everyone living....
lettuce and bok chio....


the beets.. and very sad looking green onions on the right

the bolero carrots.. foreground

the colored carrots...


if the weather holds true will be able to prune back all the frost bite on everyone and rake up all the stinking gumballs out there.
might be able to leave everyone uncovered after tonight for a couple days....

I think everything looks remarkably good in view of the temperature drop.
Those Bolero carrots seemed to take it a lot better than the colored carrots.