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 [...]
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Four Season Gardening Series #3 – Crop Selection
July 27th, 2012 
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Year Round Gardening Series Part 1
July 21st, 2012 Rick Over the next week or so I will post some instructional articles on the “how to’s” of winter gardening. Today I thought I would kind of set things up with a post about why we do winter gardening. Our goal around Stoney Acres is to grow as much food as we can for ourselves. [...]
Time to start planting outside!
March 21st, 2012 Rick 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 [...]
Fall Lettuce
November 8th, 2011 Rick Lettuce is a cool weather crop. Most people grow lettuce as a spring crop, and so do I. But my favorite time of year to grow lettuce is the fall. Here’s why: It’s easy to start lettuce indoors around the first of August to be set out in early September. There is a lot less [...]
