This has indeed been a crazy winter. We had a killing frost that was early for us. Then had warm weather nearly about ever since.
For the fall and winter, I of course had mustard. All red neck gardeners have to plant them. I have a lot of cabbage, a lot of broccoli and Kolrabi. I thought I was setting out kale and it turned out to be the kolrabi. About the most worthless thing I've ever grown. The tender leaves are good but virtually no taste to the globe. I'll say this for them, the globes got up to volleyball size before I pulled them up and threw them away. The broccoli has really made good. The only problem is that they need more cold weather. With this warm weather we've had, I've had to cut the sattilite heads at a smaller size than usual, to keep them from flowering. The cabbage have really done well. I had 20 of the hybrid plants and they made 6 and 7 pound heads. I tried some seed this year of a cabbage that only get to about 2 pounds. I'll probably go with them from now on. The make the best cole slaw that I've ever eaten and are good cooked other ways. Just a little milder tasting than the other cabbage I've raised.
Just noticed that I was writing a book. Happy New Gardening Year to all.
