Even though we have seen a lot of snow the last few days, the over all trend around here has been towards warmer weather. The long term forecasts are saying we are going to have a fairly warm dry spring. We are going to see highs in the 70′s by the weekend. So it [...]
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Video Tour of Stoney Acres Winter Garden
February 10th, 2012 
Rick So as promised I have done a video tour of our winter garden. I wish I had done it earlier in the year because things are looking pretty ragged. But hey it’s February and there are actually a few things growing in my very cold Zone 5 garden! I hope I didn’t ramble too much!! [...]
The return of the 10 hour day!
January 28th, 2012 Rick Tomorrow marks the first day of 2012 with total daylight being more that 10 hours here in northern Utah. Officially we will have 10 hours 6 seconds of daylight. This officially marks the end of what winter gardening expert Elliot Coleman calls the Persephone months. The Persephone months are the 3 months roughly from November [...]
Cold Frame Disappointments
December 26th, 2011 Rick With everything going on around the holidays the winter garden has been a little neglected the last 2 or 3 weeks. I had the day off today and took some time this afternoon to see what was happening with the plants growing in all three cold frames and the hoop house. I’m happy with a [...]
Zone 4 gardening – Grandpa’s green house
December 13th, 2011 Rick I was actually planning on doing this post in January when we would all be hoping for some warmth and nice weather. Mrs. Stoney’s grandfather was a fantastic gardener. What made him even more fantastic was the fact that he grew a wonderful garden in a very cold zone 4 garden. His home in the [...]
