Winter Vegetables

The summer vegetables are long gone from our garden, but we have a small 'winter' harvest. We don't really have a winter in Austin, it's more like autumn, so we're fortunate to have a year-round growing season. If we have a freeze, we can cover the garden, and even if something is lost, it's easy to replant.

I've learned so much this first year! I can't WAIT until summer! Until then, here's where we are w/ the winter 'crop'.

Broccoli! This is what I'm MOST excited about. It's a long harvest, and after a long few months, we finally have a little bud!

Onions! These also have a long harvest (~110 days). I keep expecting something to happen, but so far, the green stalks just get a little bigger. If all goes well, they should mature in the next 30 days.

The Romaine Lettuce didn't make it. (I suppose it wold have done better if I'd remembered to cover it during the last freeze.)

The red lettuce made it through the freeze. It's like a game of vegetable Survivor out here!

Garden Update - Weeks 1 & 2

We're going into week 3 of the Vegetable Garden Project and so far, so good! Here are some photos of the progress so far.

Week 1 (4.14.09): Corn Sprouts!
You can hardly see it, but those are itty bitty corn sprouts. At this point it had been just over 7 days.

Week 2 (4.19.09): Bean & Corn Sprouts
The corn is up! It's one week later and we have full seedlings (on the left). Also, you can tell Jef planted those - there are exactly two seedlings per square and they are lined up in little rows. They'll probably survive and everything. The beans are on the right and went from nothing to full size plants in one week. I shouldn't be surprised - in elementary school, I did a science project w/ bean sprouts because they grew so fast, but still, it's amazing to watch.

Week 2 (4.19.09): Scallions
Me: OMG, look at all the scallion sprouts! Jef: Did you actually PLANT the seeds, or did you just take a handful and throw them into the soil? Me: ... Jef: That's what I thought.

(For the record, I've since thinned the scallion seedlings and they're looking great).