My garden survived the cold spell earlier this week. Yesterday I harvested various greens, carrots, beets, onions, and celery. As I was washing the beets and carrots, I was chatting with CookNThyme and she gave me a great idea... make bags of soup veggies to freeze! Since I make a lot of homemade chicken stock, I made bags of celery, carrot, onion, fresh thyme, and bay leave (not from my garden) and threw them in freezer bags. Thanks for the tip CookNThyme!

That is a good idea. I do something similar in that I can carrots, celery, and onions to use as a soup base for turkey or chicken soups. But my jars are not as complete as your frozen bags, conifer4. I still have to add other seasonings.

We dug well over 100 pounds of potatoes on Friday; we had to bring our truck down as the crates were too heavy to carry. And yesterday I dug my carrots.

At 15°F this morning,my garden season is officially over. Now for the final cleanup - and dreams of next years gardens. I have a bunch of geranium cuttings rooting for my deck next year. Dreams of color...

Just trying to make life a little easier.

Hope you are making a nice pot of broth or soup today.
Perfect day for it!

We're having meat loaf and a LOT of mashed potatoes with gravy today. Maybe potato soup tomorrow.

100 pounds! I am impressed.

It hit 8.5F this morning. Did not get a chance today to check the garden. I covered a couple beds so something may have survived.

I have a small heater I bought at Home Depot for 13 bucks in my little green house, covered it with an old comforter then a tarp, tomato's still going strong

Dug up some of our potatoes the other day. Wow they look great! However, I went out today to dig up the rest and the ground is really frozen. Should never have waited this long. Any ideas? I don't think the frost is down more that two or three inches so I still have hopes that the potatoes are okay. What if I can't get them out until spring? Any chance they would survive the winter?
Thanks!

If your potatoes are below the freezing zone, you can still dig them. But they will not last till the thaw next spring if left in the ground. We usually miss a potato or two when we dig ours and the ones left in the ground are useless. Frozen potatoes are soft and mushy.

I have read you can use frozen potatoes in some recipes but only if they have frozen once. You might want to do a search on this.

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