The Garden Under Snow

Happy New Year

It's a happy day, indeed, when you can eat collards ... or tatsoi... or lettuce ... fresh from the garden on January 1!

Autumn Beauty

Out in the backyard, the winter garden is tucked in under a cover of leaves. Collards, kale and other greens that will over-winter show up as small patches of green. Soon, fabric row covers will be needed to fend off the cold.

Sweet Potato Harvest

Digging potatoes is so much fun. It's like digging for buried treasure!

carefully expose the tubers

delight in the largest ones

sorted by size, we'll get a few meals out of this

The End of Pepper Season

Picked a pile of peppers! Sorted on the counter, from left to right - poblano, anaheim, and hot banana. These will be roasted or stuffed, then frozen for future use.

on  the roasting pan

 

This gourd got stuck!

 

Delicata Squash Harvest

Sweet, creamy, roasted delicata squash ... we've been waiting for this moment!