Homegrown Veggies

[MaryG]

Do any of you have any of your homegrown fresh vegetables left?

I still have turnips in the ground and pull them up a few at a time as I need them. In the garage there are stored butternut and acorn squash and TONS of garlic.
I still have about 3 large ripe tomatoes - the last of the year, boo hoo.

Not bad for the middle of November.

[grindle]

pretty good Mary, at least you can still pretend it's summer ;)

[mla2ofus]

I have a few tomatoes left. :ph34r:

[Phia]

I harvested the last of my tomatoes not too long ago. Each year I try new veggies and I am planning on trying some cool weather types next year like lettuce, spinach, etc.

[Soilman]

I still have a little spinach, and my newest baby tomato plant is exploding with life, but it was a late bloomer and will have to survive its adolesence through the cool winter.

the soilman

[bjmots]

Just picked another dozen bell peppers, and a big handful of cayenne peppers. Still have lots of blooms on the pepper plants. Tonight I'll be making stuffed peppers for the freezer and DH wants some homemade fresh salsa.

[Ginny42]

Wow you guys are lucky to still have those fresh veggies still coming. All I have left in my veggie garden is two lonely broccoli plants, one ready for picking and the other has gone to seed which I'm waiting for.

[Soilman]

Fret not, Ginny. You are in a cooler clime. Soon we'll all be waiting for the much anticipated spring.... time to start thinkin ICESKATES!!

much love,
-the soilman

[boo]

Snow tomorrow so I doubt there will be any veggies to pick. I had a box of green tomatoes that we've been eating for a few weeks now but I'm afraid next grocery run will mean buying those rubber maters at the store. :(

[TransplantShock]

I have a little lettuce left, and my white strawberries are, amazingly still producing. I ate a few this morningwhen I let the dogs out to go potty.

[Soilman]

Boo,
I feel your pain. Everything that I can do from home, but then the time comes where I must make a special trip for it to "the store" it depresses me everytime. Just throw some good rock tunes in the radio, crank it up, forget all about the reasons you have to go to "the store" and remember that most people go to "the store" for everything and all year round.

much love,
-the soilman

[KiwiGardener]

And I have my carrots, peas, corn, beans, spinach, silverbeet, beetroot, potatoes, lettuces, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, kohl rabi and weeds to keep me company for the coming months :D :P ;)

[MaryG]

Braggart! My mouth is watering, bon appetite to you.

[MaryG]

I went outside today and while checking the bare veggie garden I discovered that the swiss chard plants are getting quite tall. Last week they were tiny little runts and now there's probably enough for a meal. How did that happen? We planted them about the beginning of July and it's taken all this time for them to grow.

[KiwiGardener]

Sounds like they pulled finger ;)

[MrSeedy]

Many years ago , when I was still growing parsnips , I'd put a heavey leaf mulch on that spot in the garden and would leave them in all winter. Then I'd go out on warmer days through the winter and harvest them all winter, The sweetness and flavor is greatly inhanced by leaving them in cold ground, and if they're harvested too early the flavor is mediocre at best. However the past two winters I'd not have gotten them out of our very deeply frozen ground since even the heaviest mulch most likely wouldn't have kept the ground from freezing Maybe a yard deep mulch!! A bit hard removing mulch then however!!