Winter Garden

I had fabulous luck with our last year's *first* winter garden. We had many beautiful red onions, red beets (which produced gorgeous leaves!) sugar snaps peas, variety of cut & grow lettuces which fed us and our neighbors for quite some time! Of course I can't forget the garlic - wow. I went crazy with planting it and we were not to the slightest bit disappointed! It gives us great pleasure to share all the rewards of our garden with others and last years winter & summer garden both did just that. This year the winter garden is doing well but not as plentiful. I could blame the weather - we've had lots of rain & frost this year but won't. Things seem to be growing at a slow speed and not as full as I'd like. This year we have red onion, garlic, green & red leaf lettuce and sugar snap peas & beets and our two new guests being spinach & 2 varieties of swiss chard. I also planted arugula (which I love) and carrots but I'm not putting my money on them for performance as they were a last minute throw the seed in the garden kind of thing. I've read carrots are very easy to grow - eventually we'll see if my timing and planting method worked :)