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 [...]
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Winter Gardening Series #8 – Cold frame Management
August 10th, 2012 
Rick 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 [...]
Winter Garden Series Part 5 – Planting times
July 31st, 2012 Rick The Greek goddess Persephone was the beautiful daughter of Demeter. Hades fell in love with her and in true Greek God form he kidnapped her, took her to the underworld and forced her to marry him. Demeter begged Zeus to intervene and save her daughter which he did. Unfortunately I guess there’s a rule about [...]
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2 Comments »Four Season Gardening Series #4 – More Crop Selections
July 28th, 2012 Rick Continuing from our last post in the winter gardening series today we will talk more about what to grow in the winter garden. Carrots – Carrots are the one of the high lights of the winter garden. We always choose a smaller variety as they just don’t have as much time to develop. Little finger [...]
Posted in Winter Gardening Tags: All Season Gardening, Cold Frames, Four Season Gardening, Kale, Winter Gardening 3 Comments »Four Season Gardening Series #3 – Crop Selection
July 27th, 2012 Rick In part three of our winter gardening series let’s talk about cold frame crops. Lettuce – most varieties of lettuce will do great in the cold frames. There are some growers that focus on some extra cold hardy varieties, Johnny Seeds has several. Don’t bother with head lettuce, it will never get done by [...]
