Over the weekend I gave you a tour of how the warm season vegetables are doing in our garden. Today I thought I’d give you a chance to see how the cool season veggies are doing. Lets start out in the lettuce bed. We planted out all of our lettuce starts for the season over [...]
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Winter Gardening Series #9 – Harvesting and wrap up
August 14th, 2012 
Rick Now for the final and tastiest post in our winter gardening series. The harvest!! The number one rule of winter harvesting is don’t harvest when things are frozen. You will open your cold frame on an early morning in January and think every thing is ruined. All your crops will be frozen and droopy. [...]
Winter Gardening Series #8 – Cold frame Management
August 10th, 2012 Rick Today we are going to cover management of your cold frames and hoop houses during the winter months. So let’s assume you have been on the ball and you got your winter crops in the ground in August and by the end of September you have a great stand of lettuce, and other greens and [...]
Winter Gardening Series #7 – Hoop Houses
August 7th, 2012 Rick Mini hoop houses are a very inexpensive method for extending your gardening season. I have had less success overwintering crops in mini hoop houses. The crops I planted lasted well into December but didn’t hold up as well as the cold frame crops beyond that. But the main advantage of a hoop house is the [...]
Winter Gardening Series #6 – Cold Frame Construction
August 3rd, 2012 Rick Here at Stoney Acres we have three cold frames. Each is 4 foot by 8 foot. The plan I used came from “Four Seasons Harvest” by Elliot Coleman. Although I did adapt the plans a little to my use and the tools I had to build them. Construction takes a while but is not overly [...]
