Comments on: Cleaning up

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:23:42 +0000

I was just out there, checking things out and snapping a couple of pics. It’s been snow everywhere for the last couple of days, after a fair dumping (5-6″) overnight Thursday. Most of the last of the brassicas are almost completely buried in snow, but the curly kale is sticking up, and it’s a good texture and tasty. I’ll see about the rest when the snow clears off… They won’t survive forever, but they do take a lot of cold and freezing in stride… I’m just doing this for fun, I don’t hope to offer snow-harvested veggies… ;)

By: Steve Mudge

Steve Mudge — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:27:52 +0000

I checked out the Toronto weather report and it said some nights were in the low teens(Fahrenheit…around -30 degs C?); and the brassicas are still taking those temps…wow…just how low can they go?

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:28:31 +0000

Yeah, I was excited there for a while. The circles started a few weeks back, didn’t look dead or damaged, just bent, so I figured it was a combination of wind and the weight of water from rain or dew. But I REALLY thought, ah, finally…my own ALIENS in the field! I can’t imagine that’s how fields of oats normally look, with big circles all through… Now, though, you can see they’re dead at the bottom, so maybe they were dying off then. It’s a mystery I have to live with…for now! :)

By: Mike (planbe)

Mike (planbe) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:30:34 +0000

Gee, and here I was looking at the Rye, thinking, “Tiny Farm Crop Circles - Yay!” ;-)