The end has come to our winter garden, we still have several cabbage and lots of spinach left so we picked it all and DT tilled the garden.  I have been busy making Sauerkraut.  I am so excited for how it will turn out, it takes about 4 weeks to ferment, so my fingers are crossed.  I made 2 batches and I still have about 5 heads of cabbage left.

Our winter garden was very successful this year, the broccoli, cabbage, spinach, greens, lettuce and carrots have all done very well.  My experimental acorn and butternut squash didn’t do well at all, but that was to be expected with the frosts and cold weather.  I will try again this summer around august.

Garden week 18

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Lettuce sprouting- this is when you know its done

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Spinach

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We had snails, look how they clobbered this cabbage head

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DT tilling the garden or I should say old garden, this summer DT made a much bigger garden, so now we have 2

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DT saved my shallots

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Our new garden, isn’t she huge and pretty?  We decided to make a bigger garden and move locations because our other garden had too much shade.

DT added mulch and chicken poop (for fertilizer) to the soil.  We will probably plant next weekend.

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We even had helpers picking up sticks

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and chewing them for good measure

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The boys loved the tiller and were pretending to be using it just like daddy does.

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23 Responses

  1. I have got to get on the bandwagon with this wordless Wednesday thing. My problem is that I talk too much – even when I’m typing.

    I love your boys standing next to the tiller. They look so tiny and so grown up at the same time!

  2. That looks like a blast. I am jealous of the garden because I live in an apartment and have no yard. Homemade sauerkraut sounds delicious. If I ever get a garden I’ll have to ask for your recipe.

  3. Just took my sticky chicken out of the crock pot. WOW, what flavor and the aroma is wonderful. I am adding the chicken to a pasta dish, this evening. Thanks, again, for the sticky chicken recipe.

  4. Jenna, I’m gonna have to pick your brain so much it’s gonna hurt…we’re gonna be starting a veggie garden in a couple more weeks and I have no clue at all. I’m actually feeling very intimidated by it all. Can you believe I spent 2 hours at Borders today reading various gardening books and it left me feeling even more overwhelmed? Surely, it can’t be that difficult, right? I’m gonna start all the seeds indoors first and then get our garden area ready in a couple weeks when it gets warmer and then transport them out there.

    You should write a gardening/cooking book….seriously!!! You are a wealth of knowledge!!

  5. So you’ve inspired me, as I told you months ago, lol. We’re going to build a garden this spring. I’m just not sure If we should build a base for it rather than put even with the ground. Once we figure that out, we’re good to grow. lol.

  6. OH HECK. Can I just say how jealous I am? And please send some sauerkraut my way, I LOVE it.

    Have you tried square-foot gardening? Not that you don’t have the space for spreading out, but I hear it’s wonderfully efficeitn and economical and even helps keep bugs and weeds down (because of the variety of plants in a small space I guess?). I am eager to try and desperately coveting my neighbor’s raised beds in their backyard.

  7. Winter and garden just do not go together here 😉 but this post is making me long for late spring and summer. Your garden is huge! Can’t wait to see it full of beautiful plants.

    Thanks for linking up with Finer Things Friday!

  8. Love your garden! I wish that we could do a winter garden, but I just don’t think that would work well with our winters.

    Love the picture of your little one chewing on the stick–guess he was just making some mulch! 😉

    Good Luck on your bigger garden this year–we went bigger this year, too.

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