Tag: cold frame

January 9, 2010

More on Growing In Hoop Tunnels

This is Swiss Chard in the garden today, unprotected, after weeks of cold weather, night in the teens (F/- 7 C to -12 C) and days of bone-chilling howling winds with gusts at 50 miles/ h (80 km). Not pretty, right? Certainly not much to …

Garden Technique, Kitchen Garden, vegetable
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by sylvie
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December 26, 2009

Snow, What Snow?

2 feet of snow last week-end, temperatures in the lower teens (F/ about -12 C). I have not been in the hoophouse for about a week, and frankly I was not sure how it was going to be in there. Would I have mush? It …

Garden Technique, Harvest, Kitchen Garden, locavore log, Soups
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by sylvie
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