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Post-winter greens

14 Mar 201611 Mar 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Post-winter greens

The covers are off and it’s all shades of green! That’s about three months, left to their own devices, living through freezing nights, often around -20°C (-4°F), and a low of -32°C (-25.6°F), under a couple of layers of medium-weight … Read the rest

Categories Veggies Tags cold weather, greens, overwinter, row cover, Winter, winter growing Leave a comment

Wire work

19 Dec 202126 Feb 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Fence wire as row cover support

Electric fence wire work, snipping 6-foot pieces of 9-gauge wire for hoops to hold up floating row cover in the greenhouse. Hopefully this wire is stiff enough to do the job, supporting up to three layers of row cover, heavy … Read the rest

Categories Building & Fixing, Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Tools Tags hoophouse, row cover, Winter, winter growing 2 Comments

Cold-grown salad

31 Oct 201820 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)

Cold-grown: Tiny lettuce leaves, crisp, fresh and delicious…and grown oh so slowly, without cover, in the unheated greenhouse, through many freezing nights, some down to -15C. Still a while till it’s big enough to harvest, and it was seeded way … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Veggies Tags Autumn, cold weather, cool season crops, lettuce, season extension, unheated greenhouse, winter growing Leave a comment

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