Radishes

It doesn't look as if the photo has been copied... Yesterday, 2nd Jan, I picked broccoli from the greenhouse, radishes (from the greenhouse), salad leaves, parley, 1 carrot, 2 celeriac heads and leeks. Not bad for a winter's day. Made a wonderful leek and potato soup for lunch. The potatoes are still going strong. Just very glad to be able to harvest anything at all from the garden!

Harvested 2 celeriac roots

I managed to pull them out quite easily (as opposed to the carrots)

The only carrot I could pick...

All the other carrots are still firmly frozen into the ground, so will have to wait for a thaw before I can harvest them!

Parsley picked on 2nd Jan, which has somehow survived the snow and frost

Leeks and parsley, Christmas eve

The intense smell of the leeks and the parsley was an absolute joy on Christmas eve. It was fun to have strode through the snow to the garden and then search for the parsley under the snow. In the garden at home I had trouble find the sage for the sage and onion stuffing. The parsley was used for the parsley sauce to go with the ham on Christmas eve.

The path

I couldn't help wondering if they were Yoessef's well spaced footsteps down the path!

Christmas eve

Christmas eve, garden in the snow

Garden in the snow

The vegetable plot on Christmas eve

It was a fairly traumatic visit as 2 lambs had just been born to a ewe out in the snow. I phoned Oosthoek who promised to phone Jaap de Schaap. So just hope that he arrived in time to save them.

The last tomato salad of the the year using own tomatoes!

The last of the tomatoes and some fennel, 23rd December

Can't believe that the greenhouse tomatoes went on producing for so long. The plants were completely frosted just before Christmas.