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
September 29th, 2011 
Rick Winter Gardening Series #7 – Hoop Houses
September 24th, 2011 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
September 22nd, 2011 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
September 17th, 2011 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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1 Comment »Four Season Gardening Series #4 – More Crop Selections
September 15th, 2011 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 [...]
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