I finally planted my winter garden today! I planted one whole bed of mustard greens, two types of collards (Vates and Georgia) to see which does better, one whole bed of kale, and finally planted an herb garden with flat and curly parsley, cilantro, two types of thyme, garlic chives, and Greek oregano. Oh, and a few Swiss chards, too. This is in addition to the leeks that I planted a few months ago and that are doing quite well. I still need to plant some lettuce in the bed that will also be under a cold frame come the cold weather.

In preparing the herb garden, I had to dig up the last of my potato plants and in doing so, unearthed a few more delicious red potatoes. Now my herb garden shares space with my strawberries, so it's all perennial, more or less (not the cilantro, but everything else).

My summer garden suffered from my absence because of alot of traveling, but I'm not planning so many trips over the winter, so it's quite likely that my winter garden will be much more productive than my summer garden. In addition, it will benefit from the wonderful compost that from last falls leaves. I did not have that last fall since I have only been in this house for one year.

Pics tomorrow. It got dark on me today.