Here's an update on the vege garden, which you first met here: http://franklet.blogspot.com/2008/04/veggie-garden-is-on.html


So it's a little over 2 months later. First of all we have eaten quite a few salads from the various lettuces. I'm sure things grow much more slowly in the winter months, and with the short days, but we can go down and harvest greens once a week or so.


The broccoli plants are doing great. That's them in the darker green at the end of the box in the picture below. They have not started to form heads yet. I don't know if that will have to wait until spring - I guess we'll see.












The whole thing has required remarkably little care and feeding. The balance of rain is about right. Can't do anything about the sun anyway. No sign of pesky critters. The one thing we've tried to keep an eye on is the weather at night. It's winter, and if the forecast was to go to freezing, we have been throwing a couple of bedsheets over the top. We often get a light frost and I figured that would be the end of our greens. One cold night the plants were left uncovered. I walked down to find the leaves frozen stiff. That's the end of the lettuces, I thought. Maybe not the other plants, but how can a thin lettuce leaf survive that?

Apparently it can. The sun came out and I checked a few hours later and everybody looked happy as... lettuces. I since talked to a neighbor and learned that everything would do fine. She doesn't do anything to her garden. Yea!

That's my kind of self-regenerating salad.