Last fall we had unusual weather – eighties on October 20th! And less than three weeks later on November 5th, the temperature dropped to single digits, and the ground froze. We wanted to plant garlic, but how? Ken planted garlic in the mobile high tunnel where the soil was NOT frozen.
This spring has been cool and we got late snow. I realized it would be warm in the greenhouse so I dug snow away from the door and into tubs.
Once inside Oscar patrolled for rodents.
Then I put the tubs of snow onto the beds so the soil would have some moisture.
Ken was too ill to irrigate in late fall, and if – when I find the irrigation pump, it does not work until we have sixty degrees.
The great news is garlic is coming up.
I will keep putting snow in the greenhouse, and eventually transplant into the open beds before moving the mobile high tunnel in May for the heat loving summer crops like tomatoes and peppers.
