Went to the garden today to check on things. We had a terrible rain/sleet/snow storm yesterday, the first Nor’easter of the season. Still going strong is my lonely curly kale plant and my leeks. Surprisingly, I still have baby fall greens and baby arugula. I need to collect those very soon as hard frost is in the forecast.
As predicted, it snowed today. I am glad I harvested most of my veggies a couple of days ago.
(Plot March 10)
I switched web hosts and because of a glitch I lost my posts from January and February. But there was not much there, except a post from January 11, where I cooked my last home-grown butternut squash. Roasted with thyme and rosemary, and then turned into soup. Delicious!
Here is my final crop list for 2019. (SHPC=Sand Hill Preservation Center):
I placed my Fedco order on January 31, my Johnny’s order on February 4 and my order with Sand Hill Preservation Center on March 9.
I harvested some leeks this morning. Always makes me happy to have home-grown vegetables this late in the season. There are still about a dozen leeks growing.
I made a second backyard wreath about a week ago for a friend. This time I used thuja, yew and clematis seed heads to decorate the grapevine, plus a tiny brass ornament (the closure of a Christmas cracker). I am having fun with these.
This morning, I foraged in my own backyard for materials for this year’s Advent wreath and came back upstairs with grapevine, thuja, yew and spent spirea seed heads.
I soaked the grapevine for about an hour in the bathtub to make it pliable and then tied it into a wreath. 
