Salad greens
It's been a month since the deer chomped on
the last of our winter greens, and despite the tasty summer treats I
pull out of the freezer I'm starting to crave fresh vegetables.
So I went out to peer into the cold frame which I planted with lettuce
and spinach on October 29.The salad greens were supposed to be big enough to eat in December, but some cold spells knocked them back. Now they're starting to grow! Still not quite big enough to eat, but both are starting to put out fresh leaves. Maybe in a couple of weeks....
Meanwhile, I planted my traditional
Groundhog's Day lettuce bed --- a couple of days early because even
though the ground isn't what I'd call dry right now, it's only going to
get wetter come Monday. I've been curious about whether the
southwestern Native Americans' method of pit gardening would be useful
to give my salad greens a bit of insulation in the winter, so I made
half of the new bed a pit garden and the other half a raised bed.
(Both are inside a cold frame covered with row cover fabric.) In
a couple of months, I'll let you know the results of the side by side
comparison!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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