Winter Garden week 4

I find it rather funny calling this my winter garden, when its 85 today!  Can you ladies up north send some cooler air down?  I need it desperately.  I want to wear a jacket, I want to feel the cold air blow through my hair and send a chill down my spine.  I want to enjoy sipping hot cocoa, or eating a big ole warm bowl of soup.

But I guess thats the life we’ve chosen down here in South Texas.  Hot summers and cool (85 degrees) winters…….

Moving on.

The garden is doing fantastic, we’ve had a good rain and the garden thoroughly enjoyed it.  Everything is coming up green and growing strong.

Well everything but the pumpkin.  Yes the pumpkin is still hanging on by a thread.  Sad I know, I shouldn’t even show this poor pitiful pumpkin on its death-bed, but I just wanted to prove that not everything we grow turns out as we would like.  I say we but really it was me, DT didn’t and hasn’t done a single thing to my pumpkins, so maybe it really is his green thumb.

But we finally pulled out the 10 foot Okra, and I couldn’t be happier.  I just don’t know what it is but those incessant okra just got on my last nerve.  They wouldn’t die, and worse yet they just kept producing, and producing, and producing.  I mean what do they think were doing here, growing vegetables or what.   Ok so maybe we are growing vegetables, and I do like Okra, but I really don’t like handling them, they have little prickly hairs that I must be allergic to if they touch my hands they seem to burn and sting for hours.  I don’t like that much.  But I do love how they taste. So I was wearing gloves quite a bit. Bye Bye gloves.

Here is the front view of the garden, and the disturbed patches of dirt are were the old huge okra once stood!

As for our peppers, were still getting bucket’s full and we haven’t pulled the plants yet.

The Broccoli is growing strong

as is the cabbage

and brussel sprouts

The carrots are growing you can really see their frilly little tops now

The lettuce is growing strong, please ignore all the excess grass, we really need to do some weeding

and the turnips are growing at a rapid rate

so are the beets, I just love their beautiful red stems

spinach, seems like we could already pick some baby leaves.  I think I am going to get DT to plant some more, we can always use more spinach

and finally the back view of the garden

So how is your climate?  Are you able to grow a fall garden or are you already enjoying all the finer things cold weather has to offer?

I will be posting weekly of the garden so please click on each week for more details. week 1, week 2

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