Comments on: Winter Garden Woes http://cookingupastory.com/winter-garden-woes An online television show (and blog) about food and sustainable living Tue, 22 May 2012 14:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lisa (aka june2)http://cookingupastory.com/winter-garden-woes/comment-page-1#comment-33233 Lisa (aka june2) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:31:10 +0000 http://cookingupastory.com/?p=3031#comment-33233 The cold frame will likely be built later this spring. We will document w/video and post. I am thinking something lightweight, like hoops as the beds are pretty big. We don't have a problem w/deer here, but I am going to be watching the raccoons, my mortal enemies, even if they are cute. Also, the aphids that love broccoli rabe and the slugs that have a taste for tatsoi of all things. This will be the first spring/summer season for the raised beds...they were completed at the end of last summer. I hope to have a fine crop of greens, peas, tomatoes, being a southerner, some okra and eggplant if lucky. We also put in blueberries and an apple for espalier last fall...This year, plan on adding blackberries, logan berries, strawberries, raspberries, maybe a fig tree if we can squeeze it in somewhere...oh, and, of course, the bioswale to deal the marshy, squishy portion of the back yard..big plans as always! Hope your transplants survived--I brought a some things from our old house here too...a favorite rose. The cold frame will likely be built later this spring. We will document w/video and post. I am thinking something lightweight, like hoops as the beds are pretty big. We don’t have a problem w/deer here, but I am going to be watching the raccoons, my mortal enemies, even if they are cute. Also, the aphids that love broccoli rabe and the slugs that have a taste for tatsoi of all things. This will be the first spring/summer season for the raised beds…they were completed at the end of last summer. I hope to have a fine crop of greens, peas, tomatoes, being a southerner, some okra and eggplant if lucky. We also put in blueberries and an apple for espalier last fall…This year, plan on adding blackberries, logan berries, strawberries, raspberries, maybe a fig tree if we can squeeze it in somewhere…oh, and, of course, the bioswale to deal the marshy, squishy portion of the back yard..big plans as always! Hope your transplants survived–I brought a some things from our old house here too…a favorite rose.

]]> By: Lorellehttp://cookingupastory.com/winter-garden-woes/comment-page-1#comment-33221 Lorelle Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:21:11 +0000 http://cookingupastory.com/?p=3031#comment-33221 Will you be building a cold frame soon? I'd love to see a video demo on how to build one as I'm thinking seriously about it for next year. The snow caught us off guard, but I just moved into a new house and I'm trying to figure out how to set up and arrange my new kitchen garden. So I didn't have much to lose.Deer and finding a clear sun spot are the two biggest problems, as well as moles, so I hadn't taken snow into consideration. I had just moved some strawberries, fennel and other garden goodies from our old place to the new a month before the snow. I hope they survive, too. Will you be building a cold frame soon? I’d love to see a video demo on how to build one as I’m thinking seriously about it for next year. The snow caught us off guard, but I just moved into a new house and I’m trying to figure out how to set up and arrange my new kitchen garden. So I didn’t have much to lose.

Deer and finding a clear sun spot are the two biggest problems, as well as moles, so I hadn’t taken snow into consideration. I had just moved some strawberries, fennel and other garden goodies from our old place to the new a month before the snow. I hope they survive, too.

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