The collards are on the left, and should survive pretty much any weather we get over the winter. The savoy cabbage to the right is also supposedly quite cold hardy. If the hose at the top would grow just a few more feet over the winter, it would be a perfect length. Actually garlic plants are to the left of the collards. They should do fine over the winter with a little leaf mulch.
The shot above is of the cold frame with the cardoon recovering after being hacked to the ground by voles. The discolored leaves in the middle are where the plant touched the glass and froze. The little popcorn thingies are the garlic bulblets. Some are just starting to root, and all are changing to a lighter color. A one inch layer of mushroom soil certainly would not hurt.
From left to right are pak choi, radishes, beets, Beedy's Camden kale, and thick stemmed chinese mustard. I suspect that the radishes and beets are being chomped on by the voles.
These two frilly plants are artichokes. They did not produce in their first year, and I am torn between digging them up for winter protection or trying to protect them somehow in the garden. If protected, the voles would think they were a Christmas present. There are two nice frisees and an oriental green that could be moved to a cold frame.
This is the stand of Egyptian walking onions. These are ready for thinning and eating, but watch out, these babies are potent.
On the other side of the onions are one volunteer arugula plant surrounded by newly sprouted garlic. The garlic cloves were of decent size, so I am hoping for an edible harvest from this bed.
These little green pop ups are French shallots from last year that were just a tad too small to fool with for cooking. They should yield edible bulbs next year, as well as provide some bulbs to plant in the fall.
This shot is of the base of the compost pile, where lots of volunteers get started. The light green leaves just left of center are escarole plants, and to the right of them is a nice cole crop volunteer.
This bed of tatsoi has done extremely well. I only wish that I had thinned it even more to let the rosettes get a little larger. I have moved quite a bit to cold frames, but it should survive the winter on its own.
More volunteers. Some darker leaved lettuces on the left interspersed among the small baby celery starts. More oriental greens, and mizuna mustard and garlic off to the right.
Celery to the left, garlic in the middle, and mixed greens and lettuce to the right.
The "New Supply" of lettuces still to be planted. Since things don't seem to be growing much anymore, I may actually dig up the rest of the lettuce plants from the neighbor's garden.
Leeks and kale growing in the bed at the top of the picture. Lots of various greens and lettuces in the cold frame.
Mixed oriental greens at the bottom of this shot. Much vole damage at the top.
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| Mostly celery |
Various green volunteer lettuce plants to the left. A lush carpet of chick weed in the middle with some dark lettuce tucked in, and the leeks to the right.
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| Radishes on left, mixed lettuce on right |
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| Fall planted onions starting to sprout |
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| Beautiful cold frame lettuce |
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| Ah, that arugula |
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| All volunteer cole plants |
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| A cold frame with room to transplant! |
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| Pak Choi still in bloom brings in lots of bees |
I can't wait untill my garden is producing something all year round.
ReplyDeleteI love your coldframes maybe I will try and build one next year.