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Picked peas and another round of spinach before the freeze

That spinach looks AWESOME! Can't wait to harvest mine come spring.

tron777 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:45 pm That spinach looks AWESOME! Can't wait to harvest mine come spring.

Yea I’m pretty happy with it , that’s the third picking. I tried it last fall and it didn’t make , I think it was to warm

Bgoney wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:59 pm

tron777 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:45 pm That spinach looks AWESOME! Can't wait to harvest mine come spring.

Yea I’m pretty happy with it , that’s the third picking. I tried it last fall and it didn’t make , I think it was to warm

Most likely and since we get warm so quickly here, that is why I start mine in the Fall then it resumes growing once the ground warms up in March or April. Last winter was so mild that it grew a little bit at times during Jan and Feb.

Turnips and lettuce and peas still looking good

Wow! Looks fantastic! I'm ready for a nice salad!

Some raspberries still on the plant

Before progress, back when Boone Co was more rural, we used to pick wild blackberries as kids and my Mom would make a pie out of it. Good stuff!

Just picked some lettuce

Looks good!!! Ready for a salad or put it on a cheeseburger.

tron777 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:45 pm Looks good!!! Ready for a salad or put it on a cheeseburger.

Having it with our Friday home made pizza night

Bgoney wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:01 pm

tron777 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:45 pm Looks good!!! Ready for a salad or put it on a cheeseburger.

Having it with our Friday home made pizza night

Awesome!

Picked some after Xmas spinach for a salad mix

Looking good! The mild pattern no doubt has helped.

I still have cabbage plants with heads the size of a softballs, and the lettuce plants are putting out new leaves. I never covered anything when we had few colder temps. If I could get more sun late fall , the garden would definitely be rockin

Bgoney wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:00 pm I still have cabbage plants with heads the size of a softballs, and the lettuce plants are putting out new leaves. I never covered anything when we had few colder temps. If I could get more sun late fall , the garden would definitely be rockin

Wow! That is pretty incredible to have going what you have going in late December.

Lawn is starting to green up nicely now and my spinach is doing good. If we don't see a cool down soon, we'll be mowing in March this year. I try and hold off until April a lot of years but 2024 could be different.

Another season upon us . Been building a new cold frame to start some early veggies shortly . Already started some lettuce and cabbage plant seeds indoors and they’re up. Going to start some bunching onions in the next day or so . I’m ready to get busy and out of another boring winter.

The Frost / Freeze program is back in effect now per ILN.

https://www.weather.gov/iln/springfrostfreeze

Redbuds, viburnum, crab apples among trees and shrubs blooming currently. Don’t expect the current cold spell and predicted temps near freezing to harm anything.

Edit: forecast now calling for lows to get into the 20’s Saturday , that’s a different story and some damage can occur

I am going to harvest some spinach, first of the season, this Friday! Leaves are getting almost big enough to cut. I'll set out the chive pot probably in a couple more weeks.

Been getting lettuce for about ten days. Peas are ready to start climbing. Cabbage plants coming along

Looking good man!!! Can't wait to get my stuff going in the next couple of weeks.

I'm probably going to cut the rest of my spinach this week as those 5 days in a row of 80 we went thru, have caused the plants to go to seed a little bit early. Almost time to get my bean seeds sowed once we get past this (I hope) last frost threat Thurs morning.