A Quick Pictorial Tour Through the Fall Garden - December 2021

We haven't posted any photos of the garden in a while.  I thought tonight I'd give you a tour.  These photos were taken a week ago, so things have changed a bit since then.  We've had temperatures in the upper 70's so things are really growing!

These is the last thing I planted - Turnips.  We'll eat the greens and feed the turnip roots to the cows, unless I can develop a taste for them.  I love the greens.  Hate the roots.  Oh, you'll also see the first of the oxalis rearing its ugly head in the center of the photo.  We'll be battling oxalis again this year, it appears.

Behold the Lilac Bell Pepper!  A beautiful pepper for sure.  The peppers are really coming in right now.

Dinosaur kale.  These will be producing heavily over the next few months.

Purple Kohlrabi.  A bizarre looking vegetable, indeed.  This was some free seed that I got from rareseeds.com with an order last year.  I'm gonna be honest.  I've never eaten kohlrabi.  I don't know how to cook it.  I don't know when it is ripe, but I'll learn the answer to all of those questions and report back.

Fresh broccoli.  The warm weather has it growing fast and just about to bloom.  We're racing to pick it before it is full of yellow flowers.

Tomatoes.  Hopefully, we can get these ripened before a frost hits.  It would be nice to have some fall 'maters.

Green kale on the left.  Cabbage on the right.  

Plenty of green onions for winter "stick to your ribs" dishes like Gumbo!  Red Beans and Rice!  Homemade soups.

Sugar snap peas growing on up the trellis.  No blooms yet, but they'll be coming any time.  Nothing like eating these raw, right off the trellis.  Sweet as honey.

Carrots.  These should be done next month!

Here is one of the two varieties of spinach we have growing - Monstrueux de Viroflay is the name.  As you can tell, it comes from France.

And here is the second variety.  This one from Israel - Galilee is the name.

Here is the row of mustard greens.  Yum.  Get the pan of cornbread cooking to pair with this.

French Breakfast Radishes.  (That's what they're called.  I've never had radishes for breakfast.)

Lollo Rosso Lettuce.

Red Wing Lettuce Mix.

Oak Leaf Lettuce

And finally, Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce.

Fresh veggies incoming soon!