This has been a very good fall for a winter garden so far - better than last year! Here are some pics. I've been using my juicer like crazy, and juicing and freezing some of it so I won't have to do it every day.

The tall stalk in the center is what happens to Winterbor Kale if it's left for a year or so. Right in front of it you can see part of a kumquat that's in a pot nearby, and the shrub in the right background that's getting yellow leaves is a pomegranate. It produced 3 last year, first time to make fruit, and the heat and drought got them, despite my best efforts. On the center right are some plants that are some sort of broccoli relative, also left for a year.

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This bed has cabbage, non-heading broccoli (bluish plants in the center, but they're heading and I had them for lunch), daikon, beets, eggplant (maybe they'll survive the winter, maybe not), onions, mustard, tendergreens, sweetpeas, and poppies that self-seed every year.

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I made a border with the cabbage, some sort of savoy, I think, and it was much prettier before I started juicing the leaves. I bought a six-pack of these, but will save seed for next year, I've never seen them before and they're really pretty. The dead leaves top left are a papaya. A freeze got them just as it was blooming, but the plant is okay. This bed also has lettuce, dandelion, onions, elephant garlic, parsley, fennel, thyme, and bok choy. Oh, and a couple of roses - it doubles as a flower bed in the summer.

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