Who still has something edible growing in the garden? What are you growing?

Here in inland NorCal, we can grow cool season crops through the winter with just a little frost protection. No hard frost yet so we're pulling in the last of the heirloom tomatoes (the Early Girls will still produce until frost) and eggplants, basil, and peppers.

Our winter crops ready to harvest now are lettuce(at leaf cutting stage,) radishes, and scallions. Later on we'll have cole crops and perhaps turnips. By March we'll also have spinach, bok choy, young fava beans and baby beets. On top of those crops we have citrus galore, since winter is the season for it. Limes are ready now along with some lemons. By January some oranges should be ready followed by grapefruit.

What's in your garden?

asparagus green beans growing. I have my winter garden started. It contains red romaine lettuce, bibb lettuce, a mix of lettuce, collard greens, cabbage, dill, and coriander (cilantro).

So, far everything seems to be doing nicely, but we need rain.

We grow broccoli, chard, collards, and kale in the winter but never have tried cabbage. I have a quick heading red variety that I may plant.

In October we had an inch of rain, which is unusual so early in the rainy season. I'm hoping that it's a sign of things to come because last winter was very dry.

May it rain on your garden too.

since Katrina. But, I just water enough to keep it all going until we do get rain.

Also, I forgot to list the rest of my herbs. I have a rosemary bush that is about 4 feet by 4 feet, chives, Greek oregano and thyme. Oh, and one cherry tomato that is still surviving.

Good luck to everyone with their gardens!

We still have a few we picked green ripening on the windowsill, but after those....:(
We are harvesting radishes and lettuce.
The broccoli, mustard, peas, scallion, chives and garlic planted last month are all doing well.

The tomatoes we have out there now are getting pretty ugly and we'll have a killing frost by the end of the month.

but not this year.

This was one of my experiments for this year. The DiCicco is open-pollinated and produced main heads and side shoots at a slightly lower rate than the hybrid Packman broccoli. I planted DiCicco as seeds and bought the Packman plants from a farmer.

Brussel sprouts are still growing as would be expected. That's all folks.

I'd rather have OPs and collect my own seed.

first time ever so we'll see how that goes. And my last tomato plant has a bud on it. One last tomato? I hope so! :)

dg

Between that and the side shoots, it's a great plant in terms of production.

but the dogs decided to dig up part of the garden & I lost 5. :grr: Mangy mutts....but I love 'em.

dg

I have a few cold weather crops. I have arugala I put in around mid September, which is delicious, and baby collards that are tender enough to eat raw. My herb garden is still producing parsley, cilantro, and sage. The Brussels sprouts are finally making tiny little heads at the branch joints, so I expect to have them in a few weeks. I should have grown far more than my plants -- this was my first time, and most of the seedlings died. I'll probably put in garlic to over-winter this weekend.

Parsley and cilantro post-frost is pretty impressive. Good luck with your garlic. We love having homegrown most of the year. We buy organic bulbs at the market rather than sets and the results have been great.

still have a bunch of stuff for the chickens and greens for us for the winter. Oh yes, parsnips also, and some tiny carrots that I'll leave in for spring harvesting.

It is an odd fall here, seems warmer than usual so far, which helps since the spring was cooler. Did cool weather crops, which are still gong.

We're new to chickens, and still figuring out what they like.

It grows fast, is a weed that is easily pulled but reseeds easily also. I planted a bunch of cabbages, and those that have been badly slugged went to the chickens. The blue/purple cabbages, I've pulled the bottom leaves off for the birds.

I have a problem eating our lettuce since we have slugs so bad. Seeing lettuce covered with them in the evening has put me off fresh salad. Things I can cook I feel better about, but the raw leaves go to the chickens also. In the spring I use gloves and pull up nettles and throw them in the run. It gives them something to do, figure out how (ouch) to eat (ouch) those leaves (ouch) that taste (ouch) really good (ouch) without (ouch) getting stung by the (ouch) stingy side of the nettles.

If you have leftover rice (looks like maggots) or noodles or spaghetti (worms!) or bread or popcorn, all are good treats. They don't like onions or citrus or meat, but pretty much anything else.

And it gives them something to do. Walk on your food, back up, look at it, eat it.

Sweet 100 tomatoes and some lingering peppers, plus collards, cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, and onions.

The tomatoes have slowed down considerably lately though.
Looks like the eggplants may be starting some more eggplant.

The bananas aren't quite ready yet and it looks to be a race with the first frost.Heres to hoping.

Our lettuce is close to being harvastable.Same with beets.

We have been picking spinach for a week or so.

And my field peas,snow peas and garden peas all just sprouted this week.

I'm impressed with peas in the fall. We don't plant them until February.

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But I sorta cheated a bit - I have a greenhouse - and extended the growing season with a bit of hydro(lights) as well

Anyhoo - tooK a pic of my last harvest(today), will follow up when film is developed - was last pic so shouldn't be too long

Here's a pic during the summer



and a link below to my earlier thread on my surprised success

TEN FOOT TOMATO TREES

In the north greenhouses and cold frames make all the difference.

sweet bananas, bell, poblanos, chili, tabasco peppers. We have one that we call the Toyota poblano, because it is Toyota truck green and we don't know where it came from. We have some salad tomato plants still producing.

We have ugly tomatoes, still better than the supermarket stuff, but our peppers are still producing like crazy. Poblanos are great for roasting then peeling and freezing -- we eat our garden poblanos all winter.

I think the swiss chard was bit by the frost last week, though, but when we had a warm spell the other day it looked like it perked back up. However, it's snowing tonight and pretty cold and windy. I think this just might kill it tonight. I need to get some row covers put up on my planters and see what I can grow....maybe some lettuce?? (zone 5-6 Indiana)

Have a leftover big sage and bell pepper that may still be producing . Just had our first freeze. Covered my beds and most everything is fine. Many kinds of lettuce, chard, parsley, arugula and spinach harvesting now and expect to keep harvesting. Broccoli, danish carrots and cabbage coming soon. Just planted micro greens, more spinach, bok choy, more lettuce and scallions today. probably more stuff that I forgot.
This is my first winter veg garden. Lots of fun!

Here in New Orleans. The broccoli has a way to go before it's food as do the beets, but the arugula is yummy right now.

It has been frosty here, too. Brrrrrr!

but we planted garlic in one of our boxes and it's just starting to sprout. Will be good to have in the kitchen come spring time.

One of the producers in our coop makes an awesome garlic pesto (no basil) out of the scapes. It's incredible! Really stong, too. Wooooo!

still have one eggplant left
greens
sweet potatoes - bunches left

cucumber plants are doing well - just planted them a couple of weeks ago

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cilantro, beets, red onions, carrots. I have a cherry tomato and a green pepper plant in pots. Already picked some of the tomatoes. Getting ready to plant more stuff.