Friday, October 16, 2009

The Cold Weather Crop Is In

Well, no matter that it's October 16th and 80 degrees here, our winter crop is in the ground and looking good.

Capitalizing on our summer garden learnings we have planted quite a lot more of the things we really love in hopes to be able to both eat and can those items.

The winter crop includes; snow peas, sugar peas, onions, carrots, (from seed) broccoli, (from both seeds and seedlings) brussel sprouts (both green and red) I had no idea there were red brussel sprouts! Spinach, kale (both red and yellow), celery, parsley, and assorted lettuces.

We also planted a few fava beans to see how they would do and a little cauliflower, which is not my favorite but Guy loves it.

We also planted a few acorn squash and pumpkin, from seed, so we will see if those come up, we've had good luck with squash so hopefully it will work.

We were hoping to plant some parsnips and rutabegas but have not seen any of those seedlings available in the area, next year we'll have to get ahead of the game and do those from seed.

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