Eat Veggies, save the planet

My fall garden is so prolific that I can share with friends and the Micah 6 pantry(food bank). We are eating dinosaur kale, Russian kale, Vates kale, curly mustard, red mustard, cabbage both red, green and savoy, broccoli, 6 kinds of lettuce, arugula,rutabagas, bok choy, Misc Chinese greens(shiny), radishes, collards, brussel greens, and fall tomatoes and peppers. The cauliflower, brussel sprouts and snow peas are growing nicely. but not ready.

Notice the cabbage in the front row of the bottom photo.. I just cut it to bring home as you can see from the photo on top. After I stripped the outer leaves it weighed 5 pounds.

This is the first time I have grown rutabagas. My gardening neighbor shared the seeds he got in Iceland with me. It is the national vegetable of Iceland he says. I checked out rutabagas and this is what I discovered. “Rutabaga (also known as swede) is an accidental vegetable – the result of a chance hybridization of turnips and cabbage. Like carrots, they’re low in sodium and high in vitamin C. “

Summer is officially over. I am pulling up the peppers, eggplants and okra.

Fall has arrived. We are eating 3 types of kale, 4 types of mustard greens, turnips, and turnip greens, radishes, beet greens, bok choy, arugula and too many varieties of lettuce to name.

 I have planted 3 varieties of spinach, rutabagas,red kohlrabi, carrots, snow peas, cauliflower, broccoli ,red and green cabbage, and brussel sprouts. Hopefully we will get to eat all of these in November sometime. I planted garlic too but it hasn’t come up yet.

It only rained once in October so I have had to water the garden too much.

The fall garden is my favorite.