We have preserved the tomatoes and zucchini through frost thus far this winter (fingers crossed that we can continue this luck through mid-February). Last Sunday we enjoyed braised cherry tomatoes and fried zucchini. That one meal made the entire winter garden effort worthwhile!
This is going to be a record year for peas. Our edible-pod peas are now waist high and blooming, which means we have another three months of growth. There has only been one other year we had this kind of pea crop in the last 22 years - that year they climbed over a 4-foot trellis, fell to the ground and grew back up over the trellis again. We picked our largest mixing bowl full of peas every week for about a month. The kids still talk about that year. Isn't it great to create happy memories with a garden!?
The broccoli has heads about the size of my fist, one of them about twice that, so we will soon enjoy wonderfully fresh, sweet broccoli from the garden. We love winter gardens!
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