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Pulled this hakurei turnip from our winter garden just before the very hard freeze this week❄️😋Hakurei is "arguably the best turnip variety" but "one of the least cold-tolerant, and does not survive dips below 10 °F (-12 °C)" 🌡️ 
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Radish microgreens growing rather unevenly on a paper towel. Spicy!🌱😋  Curly scarlet kale💜from our winter garden❄️Goes from deep purple to bright green when cooked🎨😋Here, we're sharing some tender bits with our cute mealworms🐛  Crimson lentil sprout on Day 1🌱 Sprouting is the easiest and fastest form of gardening 😀 1) Soak sprouting seeds in water in a clean glass jar overnight. 2) Put cheese cloth over mouth of jar and hold in place with rubber band. This will keep the seeds in the jar when you pour out the water. 3) Pour out water, rinse seeds with fresh water, and prop jar on upside-down into a bowl, leaning on its side, so that residual water can drain out. 4) Place jar somewhere out of direct sunlight (kitchen counter is fine). 5) Rinse seeds twice a day, leaving jar to drain as above. 6) In general, after about 3-5 days, sprouts are ready to eat! 😋 We recommend following the specific instructions on your sprouting seed packet, but this is the general idea.  A deceptively cute little mint on our windowsill 🌿 Never underestimate mint: it's really aggressive and needs to be contained! But mint is so satisfying to grow for the beginning gardener because it smells so good and so easy to keep alive!🙂  Just pulled this purple top turnip from our winter garden 😮 Remarkable that it has survived -11 °C this winter 🌨️That's about the lowest temperature it can tolerate ❄️  A nice batch of homegrown mixed sprouts...grown on a paper towel! 🌱🙂🌱  Close-up of a mung bean sprout🌱 Sprouting is an easy and satisfying lockdown activity 🙂  Always uplifting to have blossoms in the middle of winter 🌺🙂❄️  |
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