
Due to all the rough weather we have been experiencing lately, and also due to the indoor work which we were completing I had not been much in our garden to check on things and certainly did not do any work in it. But between the two latest storms I did go out and took stock of what needs doing and what is growing right now and it seems that we have quite a bit going for us, there is more food to be found there than at first one would think. And so I have become encouraged and excited to get going. I plan to grow as much as I can fit, because my plan is to preserve some surplus harvest and to that end I bought some Kilner jars today. When I was growing up every housewife used to preserve a variety of foods in those jars. My mother did this until she was well in her eighties.
Dandelion root and oca Last year’s spinach among the three cornered leeks
Young nettles Winter greens – kale
Young sprouting chives, I am very happy to see these as they suffered last summer And young dandelion leaves, if we only half knew how nutritiously valuable this plant is, we would use it a plenty
A young broad bean plant And elephant garlic is sprouting too
Three cornered leek Celery that just keeps growing

Thyme growing real well this winter Mediterranean oregano
I hope that wherever you are that your gardens are growing well too and that my friends in the UK have not been affected by the most recent floods and storms.