My Winter Garden: A Photo Tour

Despite being the middle of winter, there are still signs of life in my food garden, so on a rare sunny morning today, I raced around with the camera.

The Meyer lemon is producing abundantly as usual, but snails seem to be chewing at the fruit which are then getting fungal infections and falling off the tree :-(

The potted rosemary is looking very pretty.

The galangal is ready to harvest when I get a chance. Only two rhizomes survived but it looks as though they grew on OK, so will be interested to see how much I get from them.

Something (?) is chewing at my green papayas before they can ripen. I will have to pickle this one.

The mulberry is starting to produce buds and fruit...

The blueberries are also beginning to flower and fruit...

and the strawberries are flowering.

The garlic and onions are looking pretty good, despite all the rain.

Although the red cabbage are all sulking and refusing to grow.

The Bloomsdale spinach is stunted and also refusing to grow...

Whereas the Winter Giant spinach is coming along nicely? *Shrug*

The endive isn't doing all that well either...

But the tatsoi is almost big enough to eat (if I can keep the snails away long enough).

The red kale is powering along...

As are the remaining fennel seedlings and the Tuscan kale.

Although all the lettuce are bolting, despite the cold weather - I can't seem to win with them this year.

In fact, the only greens big enough to eat in the garden at the moment are the Chinese Broad Leaf Celery (lovely in stir fries)...

And the Red Giant mustard.

The kohl rabi that weren't eaten by the snails who cunningly bypassed the snail bait, are looking good...

As is the celtuce, which looks as though it about to form it's long stem at the base.

The snow peas are producing lovely crisp pods...

And the rainbow chard is beginning to colour up, although not large enough to eat yet sadly.

I hope your gardens are also producing well for you. Happy gardening everyone!