Well, the weeds are certainly thriving, lol.
Winter garden: Survivors this year are a few collards and kale, also garlic, and onions, both multiplier and walking.
Greenhouse: Things did pretty well in the greenhouse in spite of below freezing temps a few times.
- Collards
- Broccoli
- Snow peas
- Parsley
- Lettuce
- Chickweed
- Sweet peppers
- Potatoes
- Volunteer cherry tomato
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| 3 of my 4 transplanted pepper plants survived. This one has a tiny flower bud. |
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| Greenhouse collard plant with parsley peeking out underneath. |
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| Broccoli. These are small, secondary heads, of which we get quite a few. |
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The peas lost the first flowers to the cold, but now, they are producing wonderfully. |
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| Volunteer cherry tomato. It first sprouted last fall and survived our coldest days. |
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Sweet potato from last year. I kept it indoors during winter, but now that it's in the greenhouse the leaves are greener. |
The greenhouse kale didn't make it, except for one scraggly plant. Mostly they were devoured by aphids.
Greenhouse eating
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Homegrown salad: broccoli, snow peas, lettuce, chickweed, wild lettuce, hard boiled egg, goat feta, and my ricotta ranch dressing. |
Summer garden planting: So far, only cool tolerant things
- Lettuce
- Peas
- Radishes
- Arugula
- Daikons
- Turnips
- Carrots
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| garden lettuce |
So, we've made a start. How about you? Is the weather cooperating enough for you to get a garden started?
19 comments:
Our unheated greenhouse hasn't gotten much use yet but soon. We have plants started indoors, mostly peppers and tomatoes and as soon as we get a stretch of weather well above the freezing mark, we will move them out there. We do have cool seasons stuff planted in the garden and starting to emerge. We have lettuce, radishes and peas up already.
Oh my, but you have a great start to the growing season! Everything looks like it’s ready to burst forth growing!
Yes, we have begun sowing and transplanting outside into our raised beds. I want to get back into the habit of growing sprouts inside as well.
Happy growing, everyone!
Ed, I'm guessing your temps are a number of weeks behind ours. I'm also guessing that your cool season veggies produce longer than ours. Do you have a grow light for your indoor starts? They do like good light.
Daisy, you have the advantage of covered raised beds, don't you? I should try that as well.
Looking so good, Leigh. Did you also cover the stuff in the greenhouse on those below freezing nights? Would it have been cold enough long enough to freeze the soil?
I'd say your greenhouse worked wonderfully! Our soil is still too muddy to till, and we need more rain here and snow in the Cascades to avoid a bad summer. Our walking onions barely survived last summer (we planted two gifted us last year); I'm curious to see what they do this year.
Rosalea, the only thing I covered during our single-digit lows was the pepper plants and tomato. One of the peppers I brought inside. Happily, all but the one pepper made it! The first round of pea blossoms froze off but eventually the plants recovered. So these were successful experiments, I'd say.
And no, the soil never froze. We rarely get frozen soil even outside. Our winter temps see-saw back and forth all winter long, so rarely does any but the top crust of soil get frozen.
Michelle, I you get good rainfall and I hope your onions thrive. This is the second time I've tried them but the first time I've had success. Both the air bulbs and the root bulbs are edible, although the root bulbs look more like leeks than globe onions.
We mainly use the warmth of indoors to start our plants, a lesson I learned last year with my greenhouse failures. The light isn’t great and they are spindly which is why I hope to transfer them to the greenhouse and better light soon.
I am glad the greenhouse project has gone so well!
It's so exciting to see something growing and the season starting. It's something to look forward to here. Right now the frost is just starting to leave the soil. My raised beds are still frozen solid, but today I saw a few crocuses blooming in a sheltered spot despite all our weird weather. I'm pretty sure my walking onions didn't make it through the winter though as usually there is some sign of them already. Looks like you've got a good start though.
Ed, they do get spindly. Sounds like you understand the timing needed, though.
TB, me too!
Nina, I am happy to make a start, but I have to guard against jumping in too soon! Stretches of warm weather are deceiving. :) It's hard to imagine the ground being frozen solid though. You are certainly waiting for spring!
Your greenhouse is so pretty! I have a small greenhouse, but the temperature has already hit a hundred here in Texas.......in March.......so the greenhouse is more like an oven for this area. I use it for winter protection for my plants. I do keep a heater in the space and I have to cover it with plastic sheeting as the wind blows through the panels easily. I use the sunny windows in the house for sprouting flowers this year. So far, I have had good luck with this method. Wishing you a blessed Easter!
Or weather here in west Texas has already started getting hot. It was 100 on days in March. The little greenhouse I have cannot be used in the summer, it is more like an oven. I used it to keep my plants safe during the winter. Your greenhouse and what you are growing is all so wonderful! Wishing you a blessed Easter.
YE that is a great use of a greenhouse. Figuring out how to adapt gardening to one's climate takes some experimentation and adaptation. I can't use mine in summer for the same reason, although it doesn't get as hot here as in Texas!
Eggs, 100 degrees! Already! Have to wonder what the rest of the year will bring. Happy Easter to you too!
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