Monday, August 15, 2011

One last planting

We cleared garden two of all except one cabbage plant and made a new planting of lettuce, spinach and chard. With luck, this will provide us with fresh greens up to and beyond the Winter Holidays. We had such an overabundance of greens this year, I would like to space the plantings out better next year. Perhaps start one frame in early April, one in early May, then one every three weeks through mid August. I commented in year one at Winter Holiday time how there were only 8 weeks left until it would be time to start plants again for Spring. Vegetable gardening can help make the Winter seem not so long. I believe that we are only a year to two away from being able to provide fresh greens year around from our garden. See the work of Eliot Coleman for how this will be accomplished.

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