Path to the compost pileThe path down to my compost pile is getting buried again. I keep shoveling and it keeps snowing more. We are going to break the Boston 30 day total record in 17 days with this series of storms. And we have more storms in the forecast. One for Thursday and one over the weekend. I like snow, but even I could use a break.
I keep rescuing my peach trees when my husband and townhouse mates put snow on its branches (when it melts it can drag the branches down and break them). My husband gets annoyed with all the restrictions. No dirty snow on the garden. No heavily salted snow on the peach trees. That can only go on the grass. We have a tiny postage stamp of a yard and there isn't a lot of places to put the snow. Anyway onto Harvest Monday and what I'm doing with my stored harvests.
I know the stores won't last until my greens start producing in the spring. So I broke down in January and started buying some things for my lunch greens. I have some Brussels sprouts in the freezer and I bought a cabbage for coleslaw. My oranges and purple stores have been holding up better. I still have 14 butternut squashes and at least half my sweet potatoes. At least I think. I haven't weighed them to find out. In addition the carrots are holding up fine. I have a lot frozen for later in the spring and the fresh ones are doing OK. A couple have started to sprout. I eat any that show signs of waking up.
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.
Sounds to me as if you are managing the Hungry Gap quite well... I never thought about the concept of "storing snow", but I can see the problem now.
ReplyDeleteI should make Dave's sweet potatoes fries, they sure look yummy.
ReplyDeleteIt would be difficult to manage all that snow, especially with much of your area devoted to growing spaces. I broke down and bought some Brussels sprouts and a head of cauliflower. We have plenty of things in the freezer and stores but the variety is lacking. I do hope it stops snowing there soon!
ReplyDeleteSounds like your doing very well using up your stores. Having your greens last until the end of February means that there will be only a couple of months (or less) when you don't have garden greens...which I think is pretty amazing!
ReplyDeleteAnd you must be getting all our snow! Our forecast was for snow all weekend, especially on Sunday, but we got barely a couple of inches. Still more than enough on the ground right now, though, so I'm not complaining.
Hope the snow slows down for you soon. It sure is pretty though....from here. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLots of snow!! We are really starting to burn though all our winter stores too!
ReplyDeleteI feel so fortunate to have a bounty of fresh greens from my garden. It does get a bit monotonous at times, it's not like summer veggies, but at least they are fresh.
ReplyDeleteAll that shoveling of snow sounds like hard work!
Wow lots of snow! It's hard work to clear the paths.
ReplyDeleteYou were hit harder with the snow than I was! Your greens you fix always look so good! Mine just don't seem as pretty. Doesn't it just grind your gizzard to have to buy things from the store that you grow in the garden! I forget to keep track of the herbs I use from the garden!! Nancy
ReplyDeleteThe snow is amazing, we've only had a sprinkling here (though other parts of the UK have have lots).
ReplyDeleteYour variety of stored harvests is really impressive. Hopefully as I now have a larger freezer I'll be able to store more of my summer harvests.
Those enchiladas look DELICIOUS! Is there a recipe that you could share??? There's not much left in my freezer from the garden these days. A bag of squash and some tomato sauce, I think.
ReplyDeleteIt's like another world, here we are having our first heatwave of the summer and the peach tree branches are breaking under the weight of fruit. At least some things are constant - you'd have thought over the years they would have developed stronger branches to cope.
ReplyDeleteYou are a dedicated composter to be keeping that pathway clear in all that snow. I'm partly too lazy in the winter, but mostly it is because I have such a small bin and it fills up quickly when everything just sits there frozen! I love the sound of that avocado sauce ...
ReplyDeleteHere in Adelaide the weather will be pushing 100 all week; it's hard to imagine snow! When we are not watering the garden we are in the pool :)
ReplyDeleteThat is some snow you have there. Must get to the plot to replenish stocks,
ReplyDeleteI am soooo sick of the snow. It's terrible. Our snow blowers have been running seemingly non-stop during the past 2 weeks. At this point, we're running out of places to put the snow since the snow banks are taller than what our blowers can blow.
ReplyDeleteSalmon cakes looks yummy!
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ReplyDeletedaphne, that snow picture is amazing. that is extreme weather and wow, now i can see why you do so much freezing an putting away of your harvest.
ReplyDeletecan you tell me how you go with freezign your zucchini? this year i have done an experiment - i have roasted thick slices, and i figure they may only be good enough to fold thru a pasta sauce. but it's something, and a good way of keeping on top of the zucchinis i currently have coming out of my ears! (or so it seems)
thank you for showing all that snow - i'm just so amazed.
I have only frozen it raw and grated. I've never tried any other way. Though I'm thinking chopped and blanched would be better for enchiladas. If I get a decent amount of zucchini, I'm going to experiment.
DeleteYou all have gotten so.much.snow this winter...well, this month! I would be feeling frustrated with it all at this point, too. I hope it clears up nicely for you soon :-)
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