Each season Ken and I look for an early snowfall. If we are lucky cold follows snow and the snow continues to pile up. While this does not make everyone happy, gardeners rejoice. Why? The snow acts a s a blanket to insulate the ground, and slow the frost creeping down, The warmer soil means microbes stay closer to the surface and the earth’s warmth can actually slowly melt the snow from below so good …
Each year around Thanksgiving Ken and I discuss our season to plan how to improve in the coming year. We also discuss what we should grow more of and what we should grow less of in the next season. After that I do the seed inventory to see what viable seed we still have from the prior season. Then I start to go through seed catalogs. I try to get the orders in early …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has onions, garlic, winter squash, sweet potatoes, cabbage, celery root, carrots, black radishes, rutabagas, winter tomatoes, and greens Field Notes. We have some greens in hoopettes in the garden, and we will see just how they do! This has been a season of extremes – 80 in October and a low of 5 in early November and this week may see the 60’s! Ken has moved poultry …
