Merry Christmas - Gifts from the Garden

I wanted to wish all of you a safe and happy holiday! Hopefully, you all get to spend some quality time with the ones you love. Our Christmas Eve was spent building a snow man, eating a hardy turkey dinner and playing Bananagrams.

I got one gift that I've been hoping for this year- a Christmas harvest! Today was the first time in almost two weeks that I was able to look inside my hoop houses. Many of my veggies had made through our recent spell of frigid temperatures unblemished while others did not (I'll get more into that in another post). I was, however, able to walk away from the garden today with a nice harvest.


I picked some fine-looking kale and chard (and lettuce underneath)- the first of the season. These will be perfect in a turkey noodle soup.


The soil underneath my quick hoops was frozen solid, which unfortunately meant that I was unable to pull any of my remaining Nantes carrots. However, the soil underneath my hoop houses had thawed enough for me to harvest a big bunch of Napoli carrots. Both varieties seem to handle the freezing temperatures well and taste deliciously sweet. Hopefully we will get a mid-winter thaw that will allow me to pull all of my remaing carrots.

Of course I will have all of these veggies cleaned up and trimmed for Harvest Monday! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!