A Peek at the Garden in Mid-January

We got the onion crop planted last week, and I've asked Tricia to be looking for seed potatoes at the local feed store.  We're about a month away from time to be planting them.  In the meantime, we have plenty of items that we're harvesting right now like mustard greens, swiss chard, and kale.  I'll show a few of the other items in a brief post.  Here are the Sugar Snap Peas, full of tender, sweet pods:

The Waltham Broccoli is making nice heads.  I like the way the dew sparkles on the leaves and head in the morning sunlight.

We pick the big heads, but the broccoli continues making smaller florets for quite a while if you are patient in harvesting them every other day.

Prior to temperatures falling below freezing the other night, we picked a basket of the last of the squash crop before the plants died.  The basket includes zucchini, spaghetti squash, cushaw squash, and Tahitian melon squash.

Here is a nice photo showing nice color.  It has many varieties of lettuce in the foreground contrasted against the bull's blood beets and carrots (and cows and chickens in the background).

And speaking of lettuce, here is one row of three rows of carrots that I have growing.  They'll be maturing in another month.

Here are some eggplant right before the freeze.  The eggplant succumbed to the freeze.

Here is a shot of Galilee Spinach in the foreground looking south toward the barn:

And a better shot of the spinach.  It is thick and healthy.

I'm preparing for the Spring garden as well.  Here is the tomatoes that have come up and are growing.  Actually, they are getting a little too "leggy" under the grow lights.  I will replant them a little later.  The peppers are all starting to germinate, but the eggplant have not sprouted yet.

As we harvest, we plant.  We look forward to what the spring garden brings.