How I love it when my garden looks like this! There is nothing more I can do out there, so out there I rarely go. Bliss.
I do have a few rutabagas under ground leaves and a snow covered row cover, and a few daikons under leaves and snow. One of these days I'll go get them. I've been told they should be fine.
This is the time of year the-reaping-of-rewards is the biggest of very few garden-related activities that I do. My freezer now contains, along with beef stew, ratatouille, frozen beans, berries, several fruits cut up muffin-sized, and other thaw-heat-and-serve food items, almost all of which I grew myself in that tiny garden you can see above. While I'm stuck in the house because I can't get my car out of the garage for all the snow, feeding myself will be a breeze. That's a very good thing, because my second year of homeopathy studies will begin mid-January. The first year sucked up my life! Joyfully! At this point, I am dreading it, but I know once I get on that luge, I will go happily along.
Not only do I have prepared foods - frozen, canned and dehydrated - I've got root vegetables in a back closet of an unheated room, which all did very well last year. This past week was turkey soup week. Turkey broth one day led to turkey soup the next, wherein I used up all my smaller sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips. I had the onions and garlic in my stash, too. A couple snips of fresh rosemary from my windowsill, a few stalks of grocery-bought celery, and I made myself a good dozen servings, six of them now frozen, of delicious and nutritious turkey soup, all for the cost of a few stalks of celery. That does not suck.
Moral - grow your own and money won't be a problem anymore.
This is my entry to Hive Garden Community's monthly garden challenge for December 2025. Come show us yours!
I had this playing for background music as I wrote this. Glory!
All two images are mine. A two shot garden post! My kind of garden post!
