The garden is telling me to, "get out here and plant something!" See, that's why it's called "garden fever." You start hearing inanimate objects talk to you, like the garden. lol. I decided it was time to take a stroll around my back 40 to see what was going on out there.
To my surprise, I had lovely garlic shoots coming up. They looked like they'd gone a few rounds and lost (i'm guessing that the winter's here/winter's not here weather pattern we've been having is the culprit.) Some are 6" tall, most are about 3". They may look terrible, but they'll be just fine.
I was surprised to see some action in my main vegetable garden. I found 2, count 'em, TWO spinach plants growing & green. I
I then decided to make a cold frame. It took about 30 seconds. Here it is:
I totally did that all by myself. Well, Brad dragged those old storm windows up from the basement. But I chucked 'em on that garden bed and propped them open with old water bottles all.by.myself. I'm so brilliant! I took this photo about 3 hours after I'd put the windows on top of the spinach and found condensation already. Huh. Well, we'll see what this does for that spinach.
scratch off one goal for 2012 : plant cool season crops in a cold frame
Sounds like you are definitely ready for Spring and getting the garden chores done.
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I am soooo ready for spring!!!!!!
DeleteI've been staring at the barren garden beds all day. Sitting there in useful sunlight. Dragged out the heat/sun loving plants from under the grow lights. Bundled them up in Cloches and tossed them in the sun. I hope they appreciate all I do for them. :)
ReplyDeleteSpinach will survive outside you say. Hmmm. I have an experiment to do!
Deleteplants are needy little brats that certainly never appreciate all you do for them! lol. I'm assuming you'll drag them back in tonight?
DeleteThat spinach survived with total neglect from me. I'm pleased, of course, but wonder if we had a "real" winter what it would do. Next year, definitely cold framing some spinach! (on purpose, this time)
Of course. Pulled them in around 4:30 or so before the sun went away and the temp inside the cloche plummets. You know, I would have cried if I killed my big tomato plants. :)
DeleteLast night I was going through the DTE bills of past. There is a huge different in Gas usage from last years winter.
This mache/corn salad lettuce is growing on me. I also like the thought of it supposedly being tolerant to single digits.
That is my current experiment. Planted a 3 inch size rosette plant under a cloche directly into the garden bed. The top few inches are thawed from the rains. In the week or two it had been transplanted into a dixie cup it grew an impressive root system! Now lets see if it can truly harden itself to mild temps of 20-30.