To my great surprise, our spinach and carrots continue to be alive and well in our unheated green house. Luckily, the green house does a wonderful job at maintaining moisture in the soil so we probably only watered once since planting. On January 1st however, with again surprisingly warm temperatures, we snuck into the greenhouse and gave them a good drink as the soil was finally starting to dry out some. Not soon after we got a snow storm so it was nice to give them some extra love before temperatures dropped. I’ve been told that it is known for spinach to go dormant this time of year so I expect that’s just what the spinach and carrots are doing. Come February they will start to peak up with growing once the longer daylight days come, resulting in an early spring crop. Yippee! I really do hope this works. Its amazing what kind of fruition comes to light when you take the leap of faith and plant some seeds!
2021 Growing Season
We have successfully gone through our bank of seeds and planned our 2500 sq. ft. garden for this years growing season. We continue to analyze the food we eat and the food we buy to best decide on the most valuable to us crops. Our big focus this year will be tomatoes as always (as we can tomato sauce and soup) however we plan on growing them in such a way that we can yield more from one plant instead of increasing our plant numbers. Onions (last year was our most successful year in onion growing), carrots, broccoli (another great grower), cabbage, beets, vines (squash, cukes), and new to us this year we will be focusing more on peas and beans. Hopefully our extended asparagus patch will do well with our transplants started form seeds. And we plan on focusing on making an acidic bed for our acid loving plants such as blueberries, heather, and juniper.
