I still have carrots that I am harvesting and the sage is still green. Garlic and multiplier onions doing fine as is kale. Oh, some fennel as well, but don't know what to do with that.

I've got carrots that are still good yet. Even though we've had a few frosts, the ground hasn't frozen yet, so the carrots are still growing.

Kat

I would have carrots, but the drought this year stunted or killed them along with my parsnips.

I really like the collards because they can take frosts and don't care if the ground freezes. I harvest them until they get buried in the snow.

Incidently, up here in the north the ground hasn't frozen yet either. But that will be coming soon now...

My kale is tasting mighty good right now. Nothing like it when eaten either like spinach or added to a hearty beef soup.

justaguy2- Save your dried fennel stalks to throw on the fire if you grill any kind of fish (last 5-10 minutes of cooking).

tj

tsugajunkie,

Have you ever grown collards?

I grow them instead of kale and wonder how the two differ in taste. Years ago I did try kale (can't remember how they tasted), but the crinkled leaves caught falling pine needles so I switched over to collards. But kale might be more cold hardy and have more vitamins to them.

balsam_girl- I never grew collards. The variety of kale I grow is Red Russian. Not quite as crinkly as some and yet still somewhat ornamental- a nice blue/green and a hint of red. Nice enough for me to plant them in my front yard (that also keeps my dogs away from them- they love 'em). Kale, like brussel's sprouts, only gets better after being hit by frost and one or two plants actually make it through the winter and go to seed the next year. As long as the temps get above freezing during the day, they revive and keep going and I keep harvesting.

tj

Since Brussel sprouts and collards do so good here, maybe I'll add kale to my garden next year. The red Russian kale sounds good!

I picked the remaining parsley today (it was a tad frozen) to put into a mushroom soup. Also picked several onions today before they freeze bigtime. Have been picking kale for soups, too, although it didn't seem appropriate for the cream of mushroom w/noodles. I think that is the last of my harvesting, supposed to have snow and freezing rain tomorrow.

My garden was good this year, my newest lasagna bed did fabulously well with 4-5 dozen tomato plants and a few excellent eggplants.

Marcia