Still eating from the garden, Jan 2018

Still eating from the garden, Jan 2018

It's January and we're still eating garden veg.  The above is a photo of salad ingredients I collected (only the cream and small amount of vinegar in the bowl was bought).  It includes miners' lettuce, arugula, baby chard, celery, spring onion (on the board itself), and the dressing has garlic and tarragon vinegar I made last year.  Delicious.

Speaking of celery, we're still eating it!  There's still some in the garden, and it's going a little at a time.  It's the only thing out there worth eating really, barring a few salad greens.

We still have lots of garlic from last summer, but about half of it was starting to sprout in the cupboard, faster than I could use it;  I made a big jar of garlic salt with these ones.  There are still quite a few heads of garlic left which I will try to use up first, in case they want to sprout too.  I really need our garlic to last until around July when the new season harvest is ready, but I feel garlic salt is an acceptable substitute for fresh/stored.

Custom label, don't ya know, Jan 2018

The one thing we're not eating much of is eggs.  We're lucky if we get two a day now--sometimes it's none at all.  Oh well.  Hopefully with the winter solstice behind us, the chickens will start up production again.