The new seed catalogs are arriving every day, each with the promise of easy harvests of picture perfect vegetables. The florid style of many of the descriptions is almost vegetable porn to us dedicated gardeners. Of course, what they don't make clear is the hard work necessary to get to the pictures they so artfully dangle in front of us. At least it will make the winter evenings go by faster.
Meanwhile, the mild weather this past weekend allowed me to continue harvesting carrots. They had a collar of frozen soil about 2 inches deep, but were easy to fork up and separate, especially with temps in the low 50s by afternoon. I'll probably never get all of them, but we'll have enough in storage for a good part of the winter. Although if we start juicing them we'll run out much sooner. It looks like winter will make a comeback later this week, so aside from spinach and collards, the harvesting season is pretty much over.
The divine Mrs. M and I hunted for holiday trees yesterday and I was struck by the paucity of the offerings in our area. A couple of lots featured locally grown trees, but the number and size were much smaller than previous years. We found a tree that almost met my partner's specifications at a national chain's lot, and settled on it, since it looked like a fool's errand to continue the search. I wonder if this is the new normal with just a few lots of natural trees to choose from.
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