Texas Hill Country Garden

Lettuce and spinach can handle freezing temperatures just fine. Love not having to buy it at the store in the winter. Like cilantro, I wish it grew here in the summer too.

Planted seed on Oct 28. Sprouted by November 3rd. Ready to start eating by December

But Kale makes lettuce look like a fragile soap bubble. Kale handles 15 degrees and not a burnt leaf in sight!

I always grow some lettuce and cilantro in pots. A couple of years ago we were having a mild somewhat warm winter and then the cold weather hit. It killed the lettuce, so now I make sure to have some backup. Lettuce and cilantro are heirloom in that they come back true from seed. I harvest the seeds in late spring and plant again the next year. It’s a miracle really.

Deciding what to cover, but first harvesting just in case some plants don’t make it. Forecast says it may get down as low as 13 degrees. I think cilantro, lettuce, carrots, kale and onions will be ok, but broccoli and cabbage may turn to mush.

Chinese broccoli

Broccoli heads are not fully formed, but going to harvest just in case the coming freeze kills them. Six little broccoli heads.

Chinese cabbage

I should have plenty of veggies for a couple of tasty and nutritious meals. Now if we can just keep power on through this freeze.

This is my first year with lemons. Tree is two years old and we got a lot of lemons this year. I love cooking with lemon and recently read about a neat way to preserve them.

Start by picking the lemons:

Then squeeze out the juice:

Pour the juice in ice cube trays and freeze the juice. Each ice cube is two tablespoons. Perfect for cooking!

I used my first cube to make Buerre Blanc sauce. No pic.