Adversity? Nope – Hard core gardening!! Fit for a deer?! We aren’t going to let a snow get in our way…
Who said you can’t have fresh back yard garden veggies in the Canadian winter?! It takes some planning, some luck and a bit of crazy – but seeing little faces light up when they find veggies they planted last summer under the snow is pretty cool.
It was actually warm enough to dig under the snow with some garden gloves in the winter tunnel this morning (a balmy +3 degrees celsius!). The strong winds and piles of snow destroyed our pitiful little tunnel, but the straw insulation managed to protect the few precious carrots we had left!! Hubby thought he had picked most of them for Christmas dinner but there were enough little guys left for a quick snack!! The kale is still going strong – that “vile weed” seems to survive everything we throw at it. Thank goodness it tastes good in soup and pasta…
The beet, turnip, leek and onion tunnel is still covered in ice and feet of snow (completely unaccessible on crutches), hopefully we will be blessed enough with a few more warmer days before winter sets in again and we will be able to see some green under there as well!
Worth a try next year in your yard?
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” ~ Og Mandino
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Fun! Snow treasures instead of sandy shores. Maybe a treasure map in your kiddos’ future?
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Sounds like a great idea!! Maybe they can hunt for the beets and turnips 🙂
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I am game!!!I My kale was up to my shoulders by fall, I tried an experiement and grew tall ones but I have to admit they did not hold up to a heavy snow…lol:-) I need to make sure they are not quite that tall!
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The dwarf curly and ragged jack varieties have done the best for me through the winters! Good luck!!
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I will need good luck. The Red Scarlet + Dwarf Blue Curled do the best for me in winter-zone 5 illinois, USA. I grow the others but when it dips in the single digits they disappear. The others handle the single digits no covered on my city lot. Much warmer in town than out in the country:-)
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Nothing would survive uncovered here! I don’t think it actually “grows” but certainly whatever is mature in the fall overwinters pretty well with “good luck”!
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Wow – that is some hard core gardening! I’m feeling like a wimp here in South Jersey! That picture of the deer around the Christmas tree is priceless. it looks like they are singing carols – the main singer & her 3 back -ups.
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That is hilarious! I guess maybe I should unplug the Christmas lights though….
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But it’s so pretty!
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I am gardening by proxy (my life is decidedly indoors at the moment) and smile at others successes. I agree with PlumDirt! A treasure map…too fun.
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