It's been slow around here, mostly cutting another broccoli head or some kale now and then or pulling some daikon radish. Speaking of daikon, I found a recipe for daikon kimchi in a Korean pickling book I have and made a quart jar to try. It was ready yesterday and I like it a lot. It's more mild (not as hot) than my regular kimchi but the cubes of radish are nice and tangy and have really picked up the garlic and scallion flavors. Good stuff! And everything from the garden.
The winter garden is not a pretty thing on a drab winter's day. But it needs its beauty sleep to get ready for spring.
The brassica beds are doing well. The staggered broccoli planting (closest bed) is working well so far. The next bed has cauliflower on the right half and yesterday the button on one of them is now 3" wide so I made sure to make sure it's covered with the plant's leaves. The rest of the beds have the cabbage, daikon, kohlrabi, kale, collards, leeks, garlic and turnips. The two shallot bulbs I planted late have finally come up. It's not supposed to grow well here but the feed and seed had some so I bought just two bulbs to try. The variety is 'Nero', supposedly a traditional bunching shallot. We'll see.
The leek bed has been a bit mulched by Mother Nature. I need to rake the leaves back so that I can pull more soil to the plants and then put the leaves back.
And finally, two days ago a broccoli head turned into broccoli-bacon salad and the kale, garlic and tomatoes became a nice pot of Portuguese Kale and Chorizo soup, perfect for chilly days. Good stuff!
