A winter harvest

Today while The Bear was taking his nap, Wifey and The Boy went into the garden to retrieve some kale and spinach.  Our high temps are starting to reliably stay down in the 30s and since I never got around to setting up a cold frame (again....), we were afraid of losing our greens.

What they retrieved was much more than just kale and spinach.

From upper right (clockwise): broccoli, sweet potatoes, peanuts, Scarlet Nantes carrots, Cosmic Purple carrots

Perhaps it was because we've had a few frosts, but both varieties of carrots were amazingly sweet in flavor.  Even Wifey who isn't much of a carrot fan enjoyed snacking on them and asked if we could grow them again.  "They were so much fun to harvest!"

After cleaning the peanuts, Wifey and I roasted them in the oven at 350 degrees with a dusting of salt on them.  We left them overnight on the baking sheet and will try them out. 

In addition to what's in the picture, they also harvested a considerable amount of kale and spinach.  After we cleaned everything and ran it all through the salad spinner to remove excess water, we have two gallon bags each of kale and spinach.  Some will be eaten fresh, some will go in smoothies, and some will likely be frozen.  From what I'm told, there is still some smaller kale and spinach left in the garden.