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Visiting the Winter Garden

Posted:1/18/20
Updated:1/18/20

This weekend we stopped by the garden to check on our Winter vegetables. I know I haven’t done a garden visit post in a few months so I thought I’d risk my bare hands in these freezing temperatures and take a couple photos!

Growing Winter Vegetables: Bok Choy

Visiting our NYC garden in Winter to check out our bok choy and Brussels Sprouts plants that we're growing for our Winter vegetables.

We grew some bok choy this Winter. Usually we only grow it in Spring or Fall but we were feeling adventurous and decided to add it to our Winter Vegetables list. The bok choy grew pretty well considering the season, covered under some fabric (here’s my frost protection tips), but during the last week the temperatures dropped pretty low with strong winds, and unfortunately our fabric blew off. So it was time to rescue and pick the bok choy that survived this rough week.

Now we have a bunch of bok choy to enjoy in big bowls of noodle soup which is exactly what I’m craving right now.

Visiting our NYC garden in Winter to check out our bok choy and Brussels Sprouts plants that we're growing for our Winter vegetables.

Hi Beautiful Brussels Sprouts!

Besides the bok choy, we’re also growing Brussels Sprouts which is one of my cold weather joys in the garden! There’s just something magical about watching your stalks fill with magical sprouts. Thankfully these plants are pretty hearty now and the fabric remained in tact, so they still are looking pretty good! I can’t wait to pick these in a few weeks!

Visiting our NYC garden in Winter to check out our bok choy and Brussels Sprouts plants that we're growing for our Winter vegetables.

Time to Compost!

We also had to drop off our weekly compost boxes filled with kitchen vegetable scraps. This is something we do usually every other weekend.

Visiting our NYC garden in Winter to check out our bok choy and Brussels Sprouts plants that we're growing for our Winter vegetables.

Enceladus has become quite a compost helper, helping me add all the scraps into the compost bins. She also loves to howl like a wolf while we do this, that part I don’t understand, but it sure makes us (and passerby on the street) laugh.

Visiting our NYC garden in Winter to check out our bok choy and Brussels Sprouts plants that we're growing for our Winter vegetables.

Speaking of compost, some of the compost was ready to add to our garden boxes to help feed our future plants. We added a few wheelbarrows of compost to start to prepare the Spring garden which will be here before we know it.

(compost video, check out those wiggly worms!)

After we did all our garden chores then we collected some rocks and played house with them. I hope you enjoyed our trip to the garden during this chilly January weekend to check out our Winter Vegetables!

Check out our Seed Calendar that I’ll be updating soon with our 2020 plans. Are you growing anything in the garden right now?

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  1. Carol says

    January 20, 2020 at 8:41 am

    I loved reading about your winter garden. We have got a lot of snow here in Newfoundland these past few days and I am craving outdoor activity now so much. So cute how Enceladus howls while putting compost in. Love to know what goes on in children’s minds and fun to remember things we did at that age too!

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  2. Rick says

    January 19, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    I have tried a winter garden but the extreme cold weather does a job in garden plants. I do grow some plants inside using hydroponics, tomatoes, herbs and peppers.

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    • Pamela says

      January 19, 2020 at 5:26 pm

      I hear you, the Winter is tough. We used to grow tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries and herbs inside hydroponically. I miss doing that – maybe we’ll do it again!

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  3. Mgjade says

    January 19, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    Don’t you get snow where you are? Our ground is covered again in ma? Your ground is bare?

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    • Pamela says

      January 19, 2020 at 5:26 pm

      We got a little snow yesterday, but it’s already gone. This Winter has been pretty weak so far with no big snowfalls for us (yet!).

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  4. Ron Noble says

    January 19, 2020 at 9:30 am

    Wish we could grow those in winter, but here in S. Central Pa the nights are just too cold.

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