Monday, December 7, 2009

Jica-what?

This hasn't been a great year for green beans or potatoes at the BrownThumb house. But we harvested our (only) jicama yesterday and it was gigantic!


This was the last holdout of the Spring/Summer veggies. Everything else succumbed to the freezing temps over the weekend.

The garlic, onions, and shallots are happily nestled snug in their beds of leaf mulch. The hardier herbs are doing fine, but only one of the cauliflowers survived the bug attack--next year I'll use cloches.

How does your winter garden grow? Please tell us all about it in the comments.
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  1. I think my garden is doing ok. I'm glad we finally got some rain last night but I'm worried about the frost and snow that may come over the next couple of day. The garlic, spinach, cauliflaur, brussel sprouts, lettuce and sugarsnap peas look pretty good. My swiss chard got attacked by my cats and I don't think they will survive. I'm going to try to put down some protection over the plants and just hope for the best.
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  2. I have 10 heads of cauliflower, 12 brocolli plants, 3 rows of carrots, several different plantings of radishes, 7 kale plants, assorted lettuce, 4 purple cabbage (with no heads yet), some sugar snap peas, and 14 potato plants. The potatoes were not ready for Thanksgiving as I hoped. I'm now hoping everything survives the cold and all but the sugar snap peas is ready for harvest by Christmas. I'd like to let the ground as well as myself rest for a couple of months.

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  3. My onions and garlic went in earlier this year (late september). I think they are in a little better shape to over-winter and have a head start in spring. Tried to get some carrots growing a little earlier too, but they are still tiny. Should be ready for the spring though. The big experiment is letting my peas go through the winter. They didn't quite make it to pods before our weather set in, so I am hoping they can survive the winter and bloom in spring. Then I will use the same bed for my corn in summer. Finger-crossing has commenced.
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