LOOK AT THOSE CARROTS!!!!

wow! they look great! my backyard perennial garden was hit big time. i wasn't able to cover it, so to say the least i had to cut all of them back. the garden is looking pretty bare back there now.....lol. i'm expecting big things from this garden this year, i've finally got it the way i want it! (crosses fingers)

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What zone are you in Willy.Thats some mighty pretty stuff there!

Looks great,Willy.
I hope you stay warm tonight.
Felix

coffemom
I made a very colorful carrot salad.

wildflowerschris
Thanks

goldenpond
Thanks, I am in zone 9b, close to Orlando.

Hi Felix
You too stay warm my friend. Can't wait to meet you and Sylvia. Please try to come to the BBQ.

Willy

Willy, great veggies, looks yummy!! Great job, I'm sure you will enjoy them!!

Love the carrots, Willy! Do the different colors have different flavors? By the way, I got yours and Denise's seeds this week. Thanks a Bunch! Waiting for the cold to quit before I start any more seeds.

Willy,

Is that tatsoi anything like bok choi? I used to grow it for the leaves - never had long enough cold to get it to head up, but I loved the nutty-flavored leaves in salads.

The whole harvest looks yummy.

Susannah

Willy ~ I used to buy tat soi at the Farmer's Market but I was never quite sure what to do with it. I steamed it in a frying pan like baby leafed spinach. How do you cook yours?

Christine

puglvr
As you can see veggies did allright. Not the same luck for the bananas, star fruit, mango.
How is your mango doing? Any good signs?
I am already considering a replacement if mine don't make it.

Cindee
I found out that all the root crops got sweeter with the cold. I can taste slight differences with the various color carrots, being the strongest the darker ones, then the oranges and next the white ones being milder.
Soon it will be another tomato season, something to look forward.

Susannah
Tatsoi is more like spinach. I like the ways it grows upright, so the leaves are kept cleaner and is easy to harvest, is also crisper.
The other vegetables in the picture were some giant Chinese cabbages, I had a laundry basket full with some heads. And also I harvested cabbage Richi, that one is more like small bok choi.
I am going to grow a new kind of ground cherries. I will let you know how they do.

Christine
Any recipe that calls for spinach you can substitute Tatsoi. I made a fritatta with eggs, , mushrooms, parmesan cheese.
In a salad with dried cranberries, blue cheese and a tarragon vinaigrette.
Made minestrone and add the Tatsoi at the end, to keep a nice green color.
The funny thing is that I made the frittata for company and I didn't tell them it was Tatsoi, they all love it and thought it was spinach.

Willy

Hi Willy,

NO change...still looks "torched"...only good sign(keeping fingers crossed)is the bark on the trunk is still green.(Scraped it with my fingernail). My neighbor is a Master Gardner and he says it is "most Likely" still alive. He said "don't prune till first of March. Only time will tell? Like you, I will most likely replace it if it doesn't recover by the end of March...I actually have one in a pot that I can plant there if that one doesn't survive(the same Variety).

Watched the local weather this morning...bad news! Calling for freezing temps again for the middle of this week? I will be glued to the weather forecast for the next few days. This is just ridiculous!! Last year we only had ONE DAY of freeze...Jan 3rd. I think this is the 6th or 7th time I've covered these trees, and still they look like they were lit on fire, LOL...

Good luck to all of us! Hope the forecast is wrong or changes for the better!!

Hi puglvr1
Mine looks the same way like yours. Last night we had company, and had small fire by the mango, at least for one night it was toasty!

Willy