winter gardens

[sidelock]

I still have healthy Kale, but I think not for long. Expecting 20- tonight.

 

[BullRunBear]

Just dried the last of the dill and rosemary. All that's left is a few Brussels sprouts. We've had a few nights below freezing but no hard freezes.

We're already thinking about next year's garden. The fever will really set in when the seed catalogs start arriving near Christmas.

Jeff

 

[Kansas Jake]

My wife wants to do a winter garden of herbs in a strawbale cold frame covered with a couple of old storm windows.

 

[jamesthomas]

I have some Broccoli growing right now, Have 4 heads out of 8 plants so far, but its still too hot down here, 80 degrees down here today! :blah: .

 

[coloradoclyde]

Rosemary makes a great houseplant......


I planted some snow in my winter garden....but it hasn't come up yet...I'm expecting it to surface any day now..... :haha:

 

[pab1]

Ever try growing sprouts? Its an indoor garden that you can grow year round and harvest within days of planting. I like the Harvest Pantry tray set-up but you can use jars. I've just been growing alfalfa and mung bean sprouts but I have 20+ pounds of different seed varieties.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Ever try growing sprouts?

Yep! I have several sprouting jars.....But it's be awhile since I used them....

 

[Sean Gadhar]

My wife wants to do a winter garden of herbs in a strawbale cold frame covered with a couple of old storm windows.

True story I was at a job sight here in Colorado & there was a garden rung by straw bales. Kale plants were growing right out of the bales. I start talking about how I had never seen anything like that before...the owner keeps telling me that "it's all legal"

Finely I look INTO the garden and see that it is in fact a pot grow :redface: hidden inside a row or two of corn & sun flowers, bordered by straw bales with kale growing out of them :rotf:

 

[Kansas Jake]

Sean, check out "straw bale gardening." It is a technique to grow crops on straw bales.

 

[sidelock]

My snow is up and growing good.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Sidelock chains his rototiller to his snow blower, to plant in the spring (June) :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Sean, check out "straw bale gardening." It is a technique to grow crops on straw bales.

I did straw bale gardening for the first time this year.....It turned out pretty well....good enough that we are going to do it again next year.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

A few years ago in late winter, I walked into a small country store where some old retired farmers hang out. One I knew asked how things were going and I replied that I finally got last weeks snow raked into windrows and expected to bale it that afternoon. A city looking lady turned and raised her eyebrows. The old guy never batted an eye and asked her, How do you think we keep the cattle cool in the summer?

I'll raise some Pak Choy on a window sill sometimes but that it the extent of my winter garden.

 

[Kansas Jake]

We may give straw bale gardening a shot this spring.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Good one Zimm............. :rotf: :rotf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Jake.... We bought this book.... http://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...F3nQUzigJaNT5LXg4=&docid=g-ZqDD9kSNWfWM&itg=1

 

[sidelock]

YUP How Did ju no that??????

 

[sidelock]

I like it.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

YUP How Did ju no that??????

My wife went to Hellgate High

:yakyak: "Daily's makes the best bacon"

:yakyak: "Trout as long as your arm"

:yakyak: Walking to school you could only tell there were cars under your feet because a little bit of antenna was sticking up out of the snow"

I know oh how I know.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Clyde, my wife picked up that book somewhere and now we just need to try it this spring.