Wednesday in the Garden

White Egg Turnips, Chinese Cabbage, and 
Chayote

It was a foggy, misty, cool morning with about half of the regular VegHeadz on hand. We did some weeding, harvesting, and neatening up the beds because we won’t be seeing them again for several weeks. Christmas and New Year’s are on Wednesday and everybody’s busy with holiday festivities.  The nice thing about winter gardens is they do a pretty good job of taking care of themselves.  We’ll be seeing you again next year.  

A Christmas goody from Peggy—
Roselle Jam

Peggy and her friend Jane
picked this eggplant from a huge 
plant still doing nicely in December.

Peter is potting up Rudbeckias
which have volunteered in
pathways and outside the garden
perimeter.  They’ll be on sale
at the garden Open House in May.

These delicious Grinch cookies were a
treat today.  They were made by Jeanne’s
granddaughter June, age 9, who has
been a regular visitor to the garden.  

These Shamrocks popped up in  
the forest garden.  They are edible 
and also harvest nitrogen for use
by surrounding plants.  

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Dave’s bed is looking good.  The
peas are supplying nitrogen for the 
adjoining brassicas.  

Crimson Clover in the forest
garden, planted as a nitrogen
producing cover crop,
winding its way among the trees
and shrubs that live there.  

The grape arbor is wearing a 
golden shawl

Louie planted these lovely 
greens in the Herb Garden—
Mizuna and Endive.

This White Stem Pak Choi
is grown from seeds from
the library.  It’s always hard
to determine when to harvest
less familiar plants. 

Cabbage beginning to head up.

Collards. We’ve had very little 
pest damage despite a warm fall.  

Kale

A radish ready to pull.