WR's 2014 Fall Garden

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Picked 6 heads of broccoli this morning that will be processed for future meals... After we cut & blanched them, we put them in the freezer. Once they are frozen, we will vacuum pack them. As we have lots more to do, we'll repeat the process again tomorrow.

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Hey WR, have you noticed that you have gathered more likes than even the number of posts you've made, and you've not even been here a whole month yet! You just keep wowing us with all this bounty while most of us are frozen in the depths of winter.

Some northerners count it torture, but I think it's the next best thing to daydreaming over seed catalogs. ;)
 

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VERY NICE bay!!! Is that a purple cauliflower???

Yes. I made broccoli-cauliflower-Amarillo carrot salads last year. I separated the florets, grated carrots, chopped pecans, golden raisins and mixed a honey-ginger-mustard dressing to mix it all up with. Last year was my second year to raise purple cauliflower, they are so pretty!

I'm just glad I found this place & that I'm among fellow gardeners!!! I like being able to share ideas & techniques with folks from different parts of the country that share common interests.

This is a fun site, isn't it? We are glad you found us. No matter how different we are, we are all gardeners and that makes us the same.
 

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. . .Zone envy to the extreme!

I think I've already said that the mustard greens I left in the beds here at home are dead, dead and dead.

The kale - I left one plant near the raspberries 2 winter's ago and collected seed from it the following year. That worked, by the way ... Anyway, I tried that again and it's dead.

Man. I can't even count on kale to stay alive! I really think it is the cold & the dryness. We have barely got into the single digitS'. It has also been a consistently bare landscape with never more than a dusting of snow.

I resist zone envy by showing up in the produce aisles at the soopermarket. Just like every winter ... .

Steve
didn't freeze this morning and now under rain clouds!
 
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