What did you do in the garden today?

[CrealCritter]

If you can get some hay and mulch them with that they will probably make it. I did broccoli that way one year when we got into the teens and it was fine.

To late... Covered in (unforcasted) snow.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ohhhhhh, that changes things a bit. Well, hope they make it!

 

[baymule]

I haven't hit stride with a winter garden yet. Everything freezes.

 

[Mini Horses]

May still be ok -- the snow will insulate against colder temps, wind, etc. Remember, when freeze hits FL they spray some things to cover in ice, to preserve them. But, if they make it, i'd throw straw on them.

 

[Hinotori]

Snow is a good thing to keep them from getting too cold. Might be time to concider sauerkraut.

Next year root cellar. With cabbage that means digging up the plant and storing it. Just shake off the dirt.

Or you can do pits in the garden. It takes well to that. That's how grandpa always stored it when mom was growing up.

 

[Hinotori]

I ordered a double head UV plant light for my lemon verbena and lemongrass since they had to come inside. It stopped the leaf drop on the verbena. I'll order another one soon. It only uses around 12 watts so cheap to run.

I gathered more plantain for lotion. That is usually growing year round. Mom has been reminding me to collect cottonwood buds come February. Dried ones are $100 a pound on Amazon marketplace. Mom wants to surprise her friend who's been looking for some. No trees where she is.

 

[CrealCritter]

Got my green bean seeds for next year. My wife & 4 year old granddaughter helped me, which was awesome help.

Dried beans we shelled

Seeds for next year

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Nice!

 

[CrealCritter]

More seed saving. 3 coffee cans of cornflowers and short and tall sunflowers.

 

[CrealCritter]

Got my hot peppers replaced with other seedlings today~most of my original seedlings were wiped out by a cut worm. Planted some in the spaces left by the death of the others and planted the rest directly into my rotting hay bales around raised beds. It's VERY warm in that hay and very moist, so they should do okay there...I hope.

I'll be in trouble if they get really big and have no support in those melting hay bales, may have to stake them then.

Spuds and pepper plants in the bales.

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This bed has sweet onions, carrots and turnips(which need thinned), but also has hot peppers planted in the bales, as well as a butternut squash and a beefsteak tomato, along with a few petunia plants.
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I placed straws around the stems of the smallest peppers planted into the soils and hay but haven't got a chance to do so in those planted into the bales. Not sure if a cut worm would travel up those bales to get to those, but I'll keep a watch on them.

Got a flat of annuals planted into the front flower beds and planted a few petunias into my hay bales too, just for funzies. Got a pot of annuals planted for the front porch too.

Also planted the rest of my spuds into a fence ring, layering in chicken compost, hay and leaves on top. Also did the same in the commode in the garden...should be fun to see if I can grow spuds in a commode.

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My low tunnel and the green growing under there~romaines, pak choi, napa cabbage.

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Spud rings are doing well with all this rain, growing like weeds and blooming already....

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Flash, my garden buddy. Had a bath this morning in flea and tick shampoo and had his ears treated for mites, so he solarized the rest of the day to recover from it all.

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Can you talk a little about your low tunnel experices. I'm going to try and get a jump start this spring.