HomeGrownVegetables

I know, I know it should be Black Eyed Peas, but we had a bumper crop of Purple Hulls this year so why not?  The Cabbage is this years fall garden wonder, the freezing temps have been crazy this year with the latest being Dec. 23 at 23 degrees, but the cabbage keeps going, so this will be fried up in some bacon grease yum yum!

Purple Hulls in the Pot

See they even look like black eyed peas, these have been cookin all day and they smell good!!

Cabbage From The Fall Garden

So anyway, that is our good luck, new years dinner, hope you have a good one too!!

and Happy New Year , hope 2011 is the best year for you yet!!

I know I said in a previous post that we get the mild winters, well every now and then Mother Nature pulls a fast one. Friday afternoon, it started snowing here , not a blizzard mind you but snow.  This was the earliest recorded snowfall in our area since they started recording stuff like this. It was quite a shocker!!  The Friday evening the clouds and snow cleared off and the temps began to plummet, when I woke up Saturday it was 23 degrees , unheard of around here at this time of year, and oh the frost we saw!!

Frosty

Yep , I put it off until it was almost too late. i made a mad dash Friday afternoon to spread some hay around the garden in hopes that everything won’t be frozen solid, let’s hope it worked.

Frost in the back pasture

The shadow of the house and the frost that follows it.

This shot is of the shadow of the house and the frost like, the sun melts it so fast .

More frost out back

Yep, so forget all I said about mild winters here, let me rephrase that and say, Unpredictable Winters hahahahaha!

I’ll keep you posted on any plant damage in the future, too early to tell yet.

So until next time , stay warm!!!

The old saying in Texas is “If you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it will change.” Aint it the truth! Last week temps were reaching the 80′s, Seedlings were put out , sweet potato slips planted, fig trees were putting out strong buds, even some small figs showing. Then whammo!!
monday morning brings near freezing temps at my house, cold enough to burn all that tender new growth, figs ..brown and crispy, sweet ‘taters shriveled, pepper seedlings…layed over like newly felled timber. Oh the pain!
Oh well, if its not the cold , its the summer blistering heat…what ya gonna do? Guess i’ll just replant!

On a bright note, The spinach, onions, garlic, horseradish and asperagus were unharmed ! lol