Today, I pulled three, inch-thick leeks and eight nice big beets, and we had delicious beet soup and fresh-baked sourdough for dinner. Mmm. I must say that in the throes of dark, wet winter, bringing a dinner-worth of veggies fresh out of the garden is very encouraging.
Winter gardening is sort of a new thing to me. I’ve grown cover crops previously, but this year, I planted probably half of my beds with beets, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, leeks, onion, garlic, pak choy, napa cabbage and chard and left Nero kale, brussels sprouts and arugula. We didn’t really have a hard freeze, a really good one, until this month, but almost everyone survived even that.
While almost all of them got munched by slugs and caterpillars, only the pak choy and napa cabbage really got thrashed. The root crops all look great and because of the cold, didn’t have any root maggot damage. The Nero di Toscana kale fed us several times. The carrots have been good picking on and off, but we’ve also been getting them from the Organics to You folks. Some things, like the brassicas, have been chugging along but won’t really give us our final answer until later in spring.
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