Update on our Winter Garden

It was only a month or so ago when we planted for the winter. At that time, the heat wave was still lingering. Now that it is November,a cold front has hit us and the vegies are growing beautifully. We planted six beets, two red romaine ( one didn't make it with the winds), two buttercrunch lettuce, six spinach which are growing nicely, a whole box of sugar peas growing in leaps and bounds up the trellis already, four arugula which is prolific, four red onions, six heirloom deer tongue lettuce which are my personal favorite and four red leaf ( red sail lettuce ). No pests, no insects and not much water needed.

I step out there in the garden and pull the lower leaves of lettuce for salad almost every night we are home. Its buttery, peppery, fresh.

I have one empty earth box left that we may either plant carrots and radishes and scallion seeds or kale or swiss chard. The nights get down to 37 degrees now mid November and I worry about freeze. Maybe I need to cover the kids with shade cloth.