Thinking about the new year

I knelt down to have a look at the remaining lettuce this weekend. Unfortunately, it looks pretty frozen. The weight of the snow and ice on the plastic cover pulled the sides up far enough that the lettuce was exposed to below zero wind chills. I will check again on Christmas Day when a high near 40 F is forecast, but I think this may be the end of the 2009 garden.

It is hard to believe that we will be starting seeds for the next garden season in only 8 weeks. It seems very close.

I have been perusing several gardening books online, they all receive excellent reviews on Amazon:
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses - Eliot Coleman;
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A gardener's supply book) - Eliot Coleman;
Backyard Market Gardening (Good Earth) - Andy, W Lee;
Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting - R.J. Ruppenthal;
Sprout Garden - Revised Edition - Mark Mathew Braunstein;

Happy Holidays to everyone and a happy and prosperous new year. The best is yet to come!