Lost or survived the weather?

[grahamhobbs]

What have you lost in the garden due to the cold weather?

I was expecting worse but actually the only thing I lost was the endive (I thought it was tougher) and the last of the outside lettuces, the raddichico is fine. Surprisingly the beetroot which I meant to lift in December, but didn't get round to it, are fine, as are the leeks (Blue Solaire is hardy but I thought Autumn Mamoth wasn't) and celeriac.

Inside the polytunnels cans of water froze but the lettuces, not all winter hardy types, came through completely unscathed.

[Millymollymandy]

PSB as has been mentioned on the leek thread.

[Rosendula]

I lost some potatoes that I had growing in a sack in the (unheated) greenhouse. The haulms froze and died, so I lifted them in the hope there might be something good in there but all I found was half a dozen marble sized spuds.

I also have some peas in the greenhouse that look rather sick, but I'm holding on in case they recover.

When you try and grow things out of season like I did it's always a risk. Last year it worked. This year it didn't. Next year I'll try again because all I've lost is a little bit of compost, which will be re-composted, a few pea seeds, and some green potatoes that I couldn't eat anyway.

Other than that, the garden appears to have survived.

[grahamhobbs]

Ah, my peas survived inside the polytunnel and outside (variety Douce de Provence, I think that's the same as Meteor in english). The broad beans also look good. Surprisingly some old calabrese are still producing little (tiny) spears to eat, with a few from some old ones in the polytunnel we will still get a meal out of them.
With the cold weather I took my eye off the ball and the young early calabrese coming on in the polytunnel have been hit by aphids, not sure they will get over it.

[Susiwaa]

I'm scared to look!

The big sage plant at the back door snapped off a load of twigs while it was coldest out side and now I can finally see the herb garden in the front it's not looking too bad.

Thankfully we dont' have anything else in the ground this year! Hope next winter is kinder to us.



Susi

[jim]

The sheer weight of snow snapped branches off the rosemary. Frozen ground made leeks and celariac were impossible to harvest. What really disappointed was the total annilhilation of the "Green in Snow" Chinese leaves. Lots of snow, no green!

Love and Peace
Jim

[Green Aura]

Thanks to the radish debacle (don't ask ) we've got very little in the garden to perish. The last of the spinach has died, and the lonely sprouts stalk, unpicked at Christmas because they were too small looks fine. I'll probably take the top off for dinner one night this week - it's the only part I can stomach anyway

[red]

the sprouts on the lower end of the stalks have turned to stinky mush. still lots to havest further up - which i have done and frozen nwo rather than lose them too - pity we would have had lots more. wish i had thought ahead on that one. sprouts are usually ok, but being buried in snow was a tad too much.

psb look battered, but i think will make a come back.. as too with spinach and chard.

I'm not convinced the garlic will make it.. but we shall see.

other than that, the veg patches are bare

[Millymollymandy]

My rosemaries look dodgy, one of the younger ones looks brown through and through and the other one is tinged. My big one has some brown bits but will need a good prune in the spring anyway. Oh well I never managed to get a single rosemary through a winter before I moved to Brittany.

The worst news is that my Mimosa is frosted and lost all the flower buds for the 2nd year in a row.

[cochlear_nerve]

Mizuma and rocket survived; New Zealand spinach didn't ...

[Penny Lane]

Half my leeks went gooey and slimy, two more bolted (I think I missed them!).
Over winter garlic & onion sets are fine though, thankfully that's all I had in the ground this winter.

[theabsinthefairy]

Still under snow - so no idea.

[Millymollymandy]

They're (whatever they are!) probably far more protected than here where we had hardly any snow but a lot of very cold frosty weather.

[Mrs Moustoir]

I've just read your post about rosemary MMM. I think my two rosemary bushes have had it. They've certainly been knocked back really hard this winter and there's a load of brown branches to be trimmed. One was the decendant of a plant I bought my late mum on a school trip to the Roman villa at Fishbourne.

[theabsinthefairy]

It was still -6c this morning at 10 when I settled down to watch the tennis.

But yeah- the herb garden should survive (self seeding or rooted), and what is left of the root veg usually turns up in the first plough of the year.

We took up nearly everything and it went in the barn to overwinter - my cold store is too cold this winter - it has not got above -10c in there and everything was starting to freeze - OK forthe meats (saucissons and bacon) but not so good for the carrots, beets, pumpkins and tatties. They like to be a bit warmer than that.