Comments on: Gifts From The Garden In Winter (AKA — I Heart California)

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:53:00 +0000

That cauli was soooo pretty (and so delish). Glad you enjoy the garden pics! ♥

By: vegyogini

vegyogini — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 06:40:00 +0000

I have neither outdoor space nor a green thumb, but I get very swoony over your gardening posts! I’m especially enchanted by your massive purple cauliflower and kale mountain.

By: Sarah C.

Sarah C. — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 02:22:00 +0000

Get a Guinea Pig – they eat greens!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:29:00 +0000

Hi Kelly,

The wooden trellis is more for looks and for privacy than it is for keeping any critters out. We are in the middle of a city so there’s not many critters (besides skunks which root and pull of my starts, grrr!). But nothing like deer or rabbits. That’s a *really* tough problem and I know my godparents who live in the foothills had to build mesh net cages on pvc pipes to cover their raised beds. I’m sure there are lots of solutions online, but so far I haven’t personally had to deal with that. Sorry!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:26:00 +0000

Window gardens can be really productive! Especially if you can commit the space to setting up a whole table beneath the window, you can actually do a whole little indoor container garden. Worth looking into at least!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:25:00 +0000

Hi Sarah, I did a series on indoor starts ages ago, at the very beginning of the blog. Still great info though! Check out these:
http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2009/02/how-to-start-seeds-indoors/
http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2009/03/growing-from-seed-the-continuing-saga/
http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2009/03/growing-from-seed-the-big-move/
http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/2009/04/its-time-tips-for-transplanting-seedlings/

Hope that helps!

And re: the cauliflower leftovers, I suppose you could juice the leaves. But really, they just go into the compost I know what you mean though — seems like a lot of wasted matter!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:20:00 +0000

Oh that’s so exciting, I love roof gardens! Happy (hopefully soon) gardening Becky!

By: Becky Carpenter

Becky Carpenter — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:36:00 +0000

All that amazing food! It’s so great that you can grow in the winter – in snowy Boston, it’s just not really feasible. I’m so jealous of how beautiful and HUGE everything from your garden is! Can’t wait to grow herbs and tomatoes on my roof this spring!

By: Sarah C.

Sarah C. — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:12:00 +0000

Oh, and what do you then do with the cauliflower stalk and leaves – anything to do with all the lovely green stuff besides compost?

By: Sarah C.

Sarah C. — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:10:00 +0000

I have *just* been looking through my seed catalog and dreaming and wondering if we’d hear about your garden soon – so thanks for this! And, yes, I’m jealous. I live at 5K ft, so even though our winters are relatively mild we do get freezes and don’t have the winter growing season you do! I’ve never really had a super-successful garden here (in NM) actually, and I think it might be because I start too late in the season and then the fiery, fiery sun burns things up in June and July (I love it but plants don’t always). So I think this is the year I’ll be doing indoor starts and early transplants. Did you do a post once on indoor starts? I’d love to be directed to it if possible. My official last frost date in April 18, so when do you think that I ought to start seeds indoors?

And that purple cauliflower – WOW!