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
Lettuce sprouting- this is when you know its done
Spinach
We had snails, look how they clobbered this cabbage head
DT tilling the garden or I should say old garden, this summer DT made a much bigger garden, so now we have 2
DT saved my shallots
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.
We even had helpers picking up sticks
and chewing them for good measure
The boys loved the tiller and were pretending to be using it just like daddy does.
If you interested in seeing the winter garden as she grew click here
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Looks like fun! I wish the weather were that warm here…it seems to have gotten colder. That looks like it will be a wonderful garden.
Your winter garden looked great! I am so excited to get my spring veggies in the ground!
Oh.. this makes me LONG for summer!
Wow…what a difference from my Wordless Wednesday
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!
What a great looking garden! You’re such an inspiration – one of these days I’m going to actually grow things. 🙂
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.
They look like good little helpers! I can’t wait for fresh fod from the garden again!
Wow! Too cold here for anything to grow any time soon. Enjoy!
Your garden looks wonderful. I can’t believe what snails can do!!
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.
I LOVE your garden! Thank you for pictures so we can pretend to live it, too!
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!!
It looks fantastic!! Man, I want to get out there sooooooooo bad!!!
Looks good! I planted my vegetable garden today. I love this time of year.
I love your garden! How fun for you and your family to have this fantastic ongoing project.
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.
Looks great! The boys are so cute! =)
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.
Wow, that is awesome. Makes me excited to get my garden growing! (As soon as the weather is nice of course)
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.
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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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