Week 13, 2014-15

Finally a cold blast has hit.  We came out of the weather in pretty good shape except for the zucchini which amazingly produced for 12 weeks and eggplant which never produced a fruit.  Otherwise we were good.  We covered up a few crops with freeze cloth and tightened up the greenhouse.  We also moved around some cold sensitive crops to the shop overnight.
I noticed a potato starting to emerge from the row and I still haven't planted the another row yet, but that will give us a few weeks spacing between crops.
We harvested our first nice looking red cabbage last week and it tasted great.  We had an awesome salad week with red kale, red cabbage, green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, a little bit of broccoli, tomato, and some store bought carrots.  Delicious!  I was surprised to see everyone gobbling it up and the whole bowl of salad disappeared in a day.
I planted more lettuce and cauliflower this last week and some more carrots.  I'd like to see our own in the refrigerator. I also sowed seeds for eggplants, peppers, and butternut squash.  We are going to give that a try this year from a recommendation I got at the end of last season.

beautiful red cabbage

protecting the greens

ice in the field

Week 12 harvest