Showing posts with label cold frame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold frame. Show all posts

January 21, 2009

2011
school "snow day" #3

2009
planted lettuce in cold frame: buttercrunch, bibb, & romaine

January 8, 2009

2009
*harvested lettuce for tacos

November 14, 2008

2008
*finished off "cold frame" with 4 more bales of straw ($5/bale!)

October 26, 2008

2008
*forecast calls for freezing temperatures tonight; spent the day after church getting ready for freeze
*harvested remaining tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, raspberries
*built cold frame from hay bales, fence posts, and 4-mil plastic sheeting in Keeping Garden around mustard & lettuce; built small square clotch from pvc pipe & 4-mil plastic - placed over spinach
*harvested remaining Fuji apples: stored 65 in flats in spare bedroom - heat shut off to room; stored 23 in plastic bags in fruit crisper in frig; holding 3/4 of 5-gallon bucket in spare bedroom until I can process them, probably as applesauce
*gathered zinnia seed & globe amaranth seed
*Love cleaned chimney
***weather update: home thermometer shows overnight low of 35.4F; noted spotty frost on lawn & some exposed plants