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After Season
Every growing season is different; that's for sure. Last year at this time the corn and soybean farmers in our neighborhood in Southern Wisconsin couldn't get into their fields to harvest. This year it seems like almost everything is picked and in the bins. We have had a normal number of frosts at our place for mid-November, but we've had a lot of nice days too, and by covering up some of the remaining plantings, we've managed to have a pretty good post-harvest harvest. The cabbages we picked a month or more ago sprouted little baby cabbages (not Brussels sprouts) that are nice and tender. Our Swiss chard, which was cut to the ground, has kept sprouting new leaves, which are nice enough to use in a salad. We've had a few other surprises. A couple of months ago I posted a photo of a disaster cauliflower in this space. Little did we know that there were some beautiful cauliflower heads hiding in a couple of plants we had ignored. I'm glad to have these bonuses