Update on winter garden ...oops is it January already!!!!!

After harvesting the onions the first week of September I planted a seed mix of salad greens .Mainly Arugula came up but we did have an interesting curly leaf green also sprout.  Think it was escarole. A bit tough but an interesting addition. I don't know if you can tell but my onions reseeded themselves. I decided to just let everything grow where it wanted.  

  As you can tell the onions are growing great guns. I plan on moving them as they get bigger. Most of the arugula has already bolted due to our strange warm temps. I cut it back and I'm sure it will continue to grow.

In the main garden the first week of September I planted broccoli, kale, spinach, bokchoy cabbage, purple cabbage and Brussels sprouts. All of these were from 6 pack plants. As I did not plan the drip for the winter season I decided to double back on shorter rows and water 1/2 as much. Worked great.

Now its the first week of January, I have broccoli to spare. My bokchoy bolted along with the arugula. I have decided to use the lower leaves still and keep the flowers to collect seeds for next year. Bokchoy has proven to be very easy to seed outdoors in the fall .I'm trying to keep seeds of plants that do well in my area and this is one of them. The cabbage is doing ok .Its just a slow grower and due to the cabbage moths /worms arriving when it starts to grow I'm not so sure it will stay in my planting rotation .Were not big cabbage eaters anyways.

This is my first year with brussell sprouts. They are doing well .Hopefully I can make them properly. I saw a bacon onion grilled recipe on a cooking show. That is my plan ,Erik will eat anything with bacon on it.

Another great surprise was the kale. Yes its there next to my monster broccoli. Its smaller because I pick it all the time. I tried kale chips but they were quickly given the thumbs down by not only my husband but also the dog. Trust me this dog eats everything, everything but kale chips. So what I do is eat it raw as a mid morning snack and hide it in stir fry and salads.

Hopefully now that the summer / Holiday selling rush is over I can catch up on the blog. I have lots of pictures I took and need to make notes on . Plus next years plan!!