How is your garden doing right now? Mine looks like it is kind of dead. Everywhere I look the plants have either turned to mush or are hanging on for dear life. It’s rather sad actually.
The Swiss chard especially.
Yesterday I spent a good hour and a half digging up the Swiss chard we had growing along the fence. The outer leaves were all slimy and gross and I actually caught myself gagging twice.
After all was said and done, I ended transferring 10 Swiss chard plants to a garden boxe. Chard is certainty not my favorite thing to grow, but at least it will bring a little color to the garden until Spring {when the good stuff starts growing again}. 😉
How is YOUR garden looking these days?
~Mavis
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Linda says
Chard is awesome stuff (I like it anyways) and it sure looks pretty in it’s new home!
Sherle says
Did you know that you could just clip off the icky tops and that they would put new leaves back up in just a short while? I do that all the time and have had swiss chard growing for two or three years.
erin s says
I’d love to have anything growing but we barely get above zero this winter. I looked like a crazy lady a few weeks ago when it got up to 20 degrees. I was in my garden getting the last of my carrots out.
Charla Echlin says
Mine looks like yours- a lot of brown, mushy stuff- my Swiss chard will spring back in a little bit, but right now the only green out there are the weeds, which are still growing like crazy (dang buttercup!). I often think that magazines should show what gardens look like in the winter as well as in the summer- There are so many perennials that you don’t cut back and everything is brown- I do have a few yellow and red dog woods out there- but it’s just not enough color to offset all of those brown branches! This part of winter is not my favorite. I almost would welcome the snow to cover up all that brown. almost.
John says
…my garden is under 3 feet of snow. Spring can’t get here soon enough!