How are you gardens doing? My snow peas and tomatoes are still yielding!

@TheHorse (205796)
Walnut Creek, California
December 30, 2017 2:49pm CST
I live in the Eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. In Summer, this is a good area for growing corn, green beans, tomatoes, sunflowers, and other fairly standard garden goodies. But our Winters are interesting. It's usually in the upper 50s during the day here, dropping to the 30s or 40s at night. And then there's the occasional freeze, with temperatures dropping into the 20s at night. My standard Winter "crop" is snow peas, which are fairly cold-resistant, and yield until the Spring. But what's interesting this year is that my tomato plants are still going strong as well. I have a couple of new cherry tomatoes forming, and I'm hoping I'll be able to harvest them in a week or two. I munched a couple of snow peas yesterday. Does anything grow through the Winter where you are? The photo is of some Roma tomatoes I harvested out a Kaiser, where I do my notorious "illegal planting."
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Jan 18
Mmmm. I love Roma tomatoes!
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
9 Jan 18
So do I. I like just munching them as I pick them, but they're also great in salads.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 18
@teamfreak16 I will have to try that!
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Jan 18
@TheHorse - They are great in spaghetti too.
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
30 Dec 17
In my agricultural area, i see a bunch of "ice" lettuce growing.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 17
Is that with an emphasis on the "ice" part?
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@TheHorse - its lettuce that grows smaller and whiter due to the cold. Hence the name, iceberg lettuce. Supposedly from what ive read in the past, most comes from my area.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Jan 18
@Plethos Ah, thanks for the info!
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
31 Dec 17
Mine is a flowers and fruits garden. Am thinking of having some vegetables in the New Year. Your tomatoes look healthy
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
31 Dec 17
@TheHorse Today I have worn a polo necked sweater an indication that it is cold here but no snow or ice. It is cool and towards the noon it turns warm.
@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Dec 17
Does it stay fairly warm through the Winter where you live?
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
31 Dec 17
It's nice to see post like this after having read and seen photos of snow and just snow and how cold the weather is in some parts of the world. We don't have winter here so we can grow plants all year round.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Dec 17
That's what my Filipino friend tells me. But here ARE seasons...just in a different sense than we know them in the US.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
31 Dec 17
@TheHorse Yeah right and we have only summer and rainy season to speak of.
@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
31 Dec 17
The garden is frozen, there are only some herbs still green, sage, rosemary and parsley.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
2 Jan 18
@TheHorse Yes, I can harvest those herbs in winter, for the parsley I shovel the snow and I get what I need.
@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Jan 18
Can you still harvest them?
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
30 Dec 17
Garden what garden are you serious her in New England we are F freezing here.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 17
Well, I suppose you could grow some things indoors!
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@TheHorse the only thing we have going is basil plant.that is it.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 17
@amadeo Well, that's something. If you grow some cilantro, please send some to me. I love it, but am not good at growing it.
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Dec 17
Looks like it is green fried tomatoes time. We've had too many freezing days here to have any garden left.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Dec 17
@TheHorse ......Good to have options.
@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Dec 17
I'm going to let them get red. If it gets cold, I can harvest them and let them ripen on my counter.
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@marlina (154166)
• Canada
30 Dec 17
Here, everything is FROZEN. Nothing grows here in the cooler seasons.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 17
When I think of Canada in Winter, I think "frozen tundra."
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
30 Dec 17
I grow nothing at all in the winter. That's amazing that you are still getting tomatoes.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 17
In Oakland, I had some tomatoes last until February or so. But Berkeley is closer to the Bay and it never freezes there.
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@JudyEv (325818)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Dec 17
It would seem you're pretty lucky to be able to grow ANY crops through the winter.
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@TheHorse (205796)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Dec 17
Are you close enough to the Coast to be able to grow things like snow peas in Winter? What are your lows (in F or C) on your coldest Winter nights?