Happy New Year as well! :-) Great harvest, the veggies look wonderful! I'm stuck here waiting for March to sow seeds :-)

Carrots and some collards are all that's left for me by now. Picked all my turnips before they froze solid a few weeks ago. I see you like the all white turnips (Snowballs?), me too, much smoother flavor than the purple top variety.

Happy Harvest New Years!

Nice harvest Janice! I have to be content with harvesting my indoor Muir lettuce for now but we have had 5 or 6 small side salads from it so far. I think the earliest planted ones are starting to get root bound in the 4" pots though....I have to water them every other day or they will go limp.

Thank you.

As I recall we had a record high of 80 last Sunday (1 January). Tonight and tomorrow night (6 and 7 /January) will get down to 24 and 26, then back up into the 60/70s after that. The ground is always workable. The lows are very short in duration. The day temps normally warm everything back up. This is a great time to garden. Weeds grow slow, and no mosquitoes. It is a gardeners paradise from oct to march. April, May and June starts to warm up. July, August and Sept are too hot and too many bugs. In the recent past, I tried a second tomato season in late fall. Looking back, it makes no sense to try to grow in July, Aug, Sept when it is so effortless now. Of course, I can't grow tomatoes now. I am thinking I will just grow extra tomatoes in the normal season and freeze the extra. The ones I froze from last summer did real good in Sauces. I don't have a lot of time to can/make sauce to freeze, but I can always make time to quarter tomatoes and throw them in a bag in the freezer.

The sweet white turnips, hakerie (name is close to that), are one of the lesser cold hardy varieties. They are very tastee, especially roasted with the carrots. I have a small patch of them and few remain. I will cover them. Everything else is very hardy and remains uncovered: Kale,broccoli, collards,onions, carrots and Lettuce. I expect some Lettuce losses, as there are many varieties. I expect half to survive just fine. I watered real good yesterday getting ready for the cold snap.

I just took my annual seed inventory and see that my variety of white turnip is "White Lady", all are now picked and in cold storage. 8" of snow on the ground today with 5F predicted by Monday morning. The buried carrots are the only thing to survive now.