I have got to get some lighting in the greenhouse. The opaque roof will be a blessing in summer, but right now there just isn't enough light in there, and the inside of the roof is dark so it just swallows light. My styrofoam boards are light blue, once they are up I can rehang my other T5 flourescent and maybe it will do better.
My greek oregano has been outdoors in the same bed for about 10 or 15 years. Probably close to 15. The italian is not winter hardy, but the flavor is much better than the greek. I'm rooting and potting some for daughter's christmas gifts.
I said now that winter is over, because typically we have a good hard freeze, then we have nice weather. I keep bees. They cluster in cold weather but eat a LOT when there is no forage and the weather is nice. I still need to treat them for mites, then I will put on their winter fondant, and straighten their frames, remove empty ones. I was gonna try and rush that before the freeze, but I realized I'm going to have another week or 2 before I really have to winterize the hives. I put them some thick sugar syrup out tonight, hidden on a bucket lid in the garden, expect they'll find it in the morning and much excitement will occur. Ragweed is pretty well dead, they've been hitting it, but I did still see wild fall asters and goldenrod in bloom as I walked this morning. And the bees hunting it.
When we have a warm winter I have more problems with hives actually starving to death.... so I have to feed, and I have to keep an eye on when
