So who's planting a veggie garden this year?

[brazosdave]

my little victory garden from the spring is still producing tomatoes and peppers. The beans ran their course, but the nitrogen they fixed was a boon to the other plants. I got a bunch of basil going too, and the herb garden , hell, I don't even have to bother with it, more sage, rosemary, thyme, and oregano than I can ever use.

[Delmonico]

OK, I got some pictures from the garden today, picked radish and kohlrabi, also, going to pick a big salad tomorrow after work. Got greens to freeze when I'm off Tuesday.



Collards, spinach, mustard greens, radish, turnips and dead tomatoes.



Carrots, a few of the parsnips, lettuce, spinach and beets.



Dead corn, pumpkins and squash.



Collards, kohlrabi, turnips and mustard greens, plus some wild garlic I'm fighting right now.

[TallBaldBellied]

Del, have you made kohlrabi pickles?  Recipe to share?

[Delmonico]

Del, have you made kohlrabi pickles?  Recipe to share?

No, we eat them too fast, my granddaughter loves them raw.  May try that next year.

[StrawHat]

Not sure about anyone else but it is time to put my garden to bed.  Remove the old plants, plant garlic and in the other beds a crop of winter wheat to use as green manure in the spring.  A decent season, looking forward to next year already.

[Delmonico]

I'm still running stong, greens, spinach, radish, carrots and turnips.  Got a bump ahead theis weekend, not sure yet but I think I'll still be going this time next week.

[Mogorilla]

We had a hard frost in october, killed most of my leaves on my pepper plants.  did not hurt the peppers.  Pulled them off just this week.   Still getting leeks.   

[Delmonico]

This I took a week ago:

[Delmonico]

A little snow on the collards and the last of the carrots today:





And I dug the last of the carrots for supper, need to pick greens again, but not today. 

[Buzzard II]

Started off small this year-2 plastic parts bins with basil.  That was a good move!  Also planted a little mint for the wife's mint julip. Also a good move!  Next year I plan on adding some tomato plants. Getting too cold here in Jersey to do much until spring.  Time to cast more boolits!   

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I'm still clipping the last of my parsley.  We drop it into homemade soup just before serving.


Here in "sunny" Victoria the snow drops have started to emerge from the ground, and my Wife still has a few rose blooms.  No frost this year; - yet!

[Delmonico]

I had collards last week, had a hard freeze the night before last, (5F) i need to look things over before I go to work when the sun is bright on it and see what is left.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Are those white carrots?  Never seen any like that.

From : "Steel Horse (the City Boy) Bailey"

[Delmonico]

Are those white carrots?  Never seen any like that.

From : "Steel Horse (the City Boy) Bailey"

Yep, I had red, purple, white, yellow and orange.  A package of old time seed, they were a mixture.  I'm going to plant just the white ones next year, very good carrots.

[Delmonico]

Checked the damage today, it was 5F yesterday morning.  Gonna have to dig the turnips and will did part of the parsnips.  The collards, kohlrabi and the spinach is still hanging in there.  Gonna have that fresh salad on Christmas yet.

[Mogorilla]

Older varieties of carrots were all different kinds of colors.  The orange ones we eat were cultivated and grown in honor of William of Orange.  They really caught on and soon were the standard carrot.   

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Interesting history Mo ... thanks for posting it.

I looooove carrots.  Do the colored ones taste the same (or nearly) as the orange ones?  I see some of the yellow ones in the picture - I thought they were simply faded from the orange when i saw the picture, but I suspected that WHITE was a different variety.  And so it seems.  Along with the others Del mentioned.

Custer COULD have had ketchup at the Bighorn, ya know.

[Mogorilla]

I have had yellow and red ones.  For the most part they all tasted similar.  you knew they were carrots anyway.

[Delmonico]

Similar, but slightly different, but you get that in the orange ones also.  I liked the white ones best.  Modern varities bred for uniformity often ain't the best tasting, but that's true in sweet corn, green beans or any other veggie.

[Delmonico]

Had a bad snow and very heavy freeze on the 19th of Dec, got some turnips on the 21st.  Snow is melting, it's all gone,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but the spinach.   Salad tonight.

There's more out there when some more snow melts.