2020 Winter Garden Harvest Diary

Goodbye winter, hello summer! Thought I’d share with you my winter veggie garden harvest diary and all the fun things we tried our hand at growing in the garden this year! It was a fun winter here and lots of things were learnt.

Our favourite crops were probably:

bok choy, pak choy (though for some reason I haven’t a picture of any)
gai lan - planting more next year
beetroot leaves - our new favourite & beetroot
silverbeet - a steady and forever there for you kind of veggie
snow peas - straight off the vine delicious
cauliflower - definitely more next season please!
baby spinach & kale

Some things I learnt:

beetroot leaves & radish leaves are edible and totally delish
a net itself isn’t enough to protect from rats, next year I’ll have to secure them even better
get ahead of the slugs early (this recipe worked really well for catching them for us)
even though my mint started as a small stick it spread like wildfire - this summer I’m moving it to a pot so it doesn’t take over the garden bed
pickled beetroot is super easy to make - don’t fear growing more beetroot next year
borage, nasturtiums & calendula are going out of the garden beds next season - they can really take over
I could probably go away no problems during winter, I barely had to water the garden all season and just relied on the rain
wouldn’t mind a few more garden beds!
more organised succession planting and more Asian greens
eating seasonally isn’t all that hard. We barely ate a tomato all winter long but recently I have been craving them again!

Our winter garden harvest diary below: enjoy!