Well, we've had some wonderful weather this past week but I am not going to be duped - I fully expect a nasty winter here! I just wish it would contain itself to a shorter period of time! And it started again last night with a few inches of snow.
I was driving back from the shops yesterday and saw a woman clipping dogwood branches along the ditches near my house. And I thought, wow, I have lots of those in my yard, what a great idea! So I snipped a few. And grabbed a few berries from the yard for extra colour ... which I think are holly??
Feel free to speculate otherwise, I'm terrible with knowing what's what around here - I've moved a lot over the years and always getting used to local flora takes a while (Canada, you are beautiful everywhere!).
Anyway, on to the harvest. My final harvest for the season are these Brussels sprouts. I do have some greens hanging out in the greenhouse (arugula and spinach) but there has been very little sunshine. And the rutabaga in the ground is not maturing well so I'll see how it looks in the spring (along with the parsnip which I am intentionally leaving). In the picture below, you will see a rosemary plant that I am overwintering inside as well as the one remaining "mystery" squash (yes, OK, we know now it's basically just a spaghetti squash) I've left it upstairs to use first instead of the properly matured squash stored in my cold room.
Although this is the last harvest from my garden for the season, I have all sorts of plans for things I've already harvested and will share anything of interest over the winter. And now I will pop over to Our Happy Acres to see what other gardeners are doing this week with the Harvest Monday collection. Wishing a happy and fruitful week to all!
Congrats on those b-sprouts! I have officially given up on growing them here, so it is nice to see others having success with them. And I look forward to your sharing some of your cooking with us, I get a lot of great ideas reading what others are doing - you especially! I have several spaghetti squash left myself and I'm always trying to figure out new things to do with them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, I'm always happy to share my cooking ideas and am already on the hunt for a new spaghetti squash recipe to share!
DeleteThat's such a pretty arrangement, I don't know what the berries are, but no matter! Nice looking sprouts too. I'm sure they taste great from all the chilling they've received.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle. They have definitely received their share of chilling - in fact, the stalks were frozen and I had a heck of a time getting the plant out of the ground!
DeleteYour arrangement is winterberry, also known as Canada holly.
ReplyDeleteThank you unknown :)
DeleteA google image search confirmed you are correct ... winterberry!
Lovely arrangement! I enjoy pulling flowers & foliage from the garden for inside but rarely think of doing that in the winter. Those look like some lovely sprouts too - not a bad harvest for early December!
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