[DellDGM]

What do you love about Christmas gardening?

I love the fact that every thing is just bursting ready to be harvested and eaten for Christmas dinner. The Christmas beetles are out and the garden is begging for a pressie all of its own.  What about you, what do you like about Christmas gardening?

[DD.]

Oh - the fact that you can't do a lot because it's been too damned cold. When you do brave it to harvest some produce, rather than go to the supermarket for tasteless stuff, you end up with numb fingers from picking sprouts, dirty hands from trimming leeks & 2" of mud on the bottom of your wellies.

Thing is - I keep going back.

Go on then - you are obviously dying to do it. Regale us with tales of what it's like down under :!:  :evil:

[crowndale]

Sour grapes DD?!    Got nothing to harvest here, even the sprouts haven't obliged but did do some digging yesterday in near perfect digging conditions for this time of year.  Also dug up three more miniscule spuds left from the summer harvest!  I love the planning for next spring.

[Aunt Sally]

Carrots, sprouts, parsnips, sweed for Christmas dinner all harvested (by OH - he doesn't know yet) on Christmas eve.  

PERFIC  

[GrannieAnnie]

A lot of my sprouts are blown again, but I did heel them in very well. But the chooks lovel em as they come!  So I was feeding them loads of sprouts again this morning!

Penny the dog likes her sprouts tightly packed as we do though!

[Motivator]

Off down the plot later see what i can harvest . With Luck Leeks , Carrots,
 swede , parsnips .

[noshed]

My lovely leeks. Barrowing manure. Bit of peace and quiet.

[sweet nasturtium]

That's got me really excited - never had Christmas veg before.  I went to the supermarket to get my trimmings yesterday and didn't buy veg - something was missing - I couldn't work it out - (it was nearly 10pm).

Thanks for reminding me to go to the plot later and get that produce.
Carrots
Leeks
Sprouts
Cabbage (I hope)

[The Thin Blue Line]

The crisp clean air

[pepper]

Went to the lottie yesterday - just me and the birds - lovely.
It was rather cold but weeding the new part of my plot soon warmed me up. I managed to finish the last bit so it is all done now - just the raspberries to move, the asparagus beds to get ready, the....... etc etc etc
Picked some brussel sprouts that were meant for Christmas day but they were so pathetically small that I shall hide them with some other veg with the meal today and perhaps no-one will notice.
Too cold to go to the lottie today but warm and dry weather forecast for Sunday and Monday so hopefully I can get some more things done. Happy days

[Trillium]

Garden? What garden? I'm buried in snow at the moment. Can only feed the wild birds and watch their antics  

[Cynara]

There's still enough work to do to keep fit here. Spent yesterday fetching another trailer load of muck and barrowing that onto the plot. Picking sprouts, leeks and parsnips which are all good this year and plenty left for Christmas. Looks like the red cabbage is not up to much though. Blackbirds and fieldfares have eaten all the fallen apples. A typically great day to be out and doing it !

[DD.]

Looks like the red cabbage is not up to much though.

Same with mine - been like footballs previous years.

[gobs]

Looks like the red cabbage is not up to much though.

Same with mine - been like footballs previous years.

Ditto. Only the summer ones grown somewhat by the end of autumn.

[DellDGM]

Alright which one of you guys sent over your cold Christmas weather.  we went from 38 down to 15 degrees in under a week (top daily temperatures) and my veggies have gone into shock - I lost nearly all of my lettuces and my corn and all the lovely nasturisuim, borage and lettuce flowers I was hording for use on Christmas day dropped dead overnight - Oh well we did get lots and lots of lovely rain to go with it - in 6 hours we got more than the normal total for the month of december. pitty it wasn't more spread out during this drought but any rain is a great chrissie present - Merry Christmas to You all - yes as I am typing this it is officially Christmas here 12.27am! Keep safe and well and don't eat too much.