Hey you guys and welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about my winter

garden. I'm going to give you a little bit of an update with the things that I've learned

and also how I'll plan differently for next year's fall in winter garden because garden planning

is upon us, even for the whole year is when I like to plan. But first I wanted to give you a

quick story about,

to me, something that I would consider a win in my family in my garden. And it happened as a

surprise to me. Those of you who have invested in people in your life, whether it's a child or

someone else, I think you'll be able to hear the excitement in my voice as I share this with you.

It was just a regular day that my daughter and I went out shopping and we came home around

lunchtime and I found that my son, he's 17, he had made himself a sandwich and I'll tell you it was

the most beautiful sandwich I'd ever seen. It looked like it came straight from a sandwich shop.

But he specifically said,

because I wasn't home, but he said, Mama went outside and I picked lettuce and spinach to put on my

sandwich. And I looked at him because that didn't quite sound right based on what I had outside

in my garden. The lettuce that I had was either in the greenhouse or it was undercover and I didn't

see anything that was actually uncovered out there. So I'm like, I don't really think that he

picked lettuce. And the spinach that I had, I don't really think he picked that either because

it's still pretty small this time of year. So I had him go out there with me

and point to what he picked for his sandwich because I was just curious what did he actually

picked on there. It turns out he walked over to where I had a Brassica greens mix. This is a

greens mix from Johnny's and sure enough, what he picked did look very similar to

lettuce and spinach, but in fact, what he had picked was Chinese cabbage and pockchoy.

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