Our temp is supposed to go down to the single digits tonight, so thought I'd better see what I could harvest from the unheated hoophouse today...
got a bag full of a couple of kinds of lettuce, some spinach, chard and mache, scallions, 3 tiny turnips, and 4 little heads of broccoli. Although the broccoli plants had been started a bit earlier and transplanted, and the scallions were planted from onion sets, everything else was planted from seed on Sept. 3rd... I obviously need to start a lot of things earlier, the cabbage has done nothing, and the kohlrabi doesn't have even a hit of a bulb at this point. But this year was fully expected to be a learning experience, so it's all good. Still to learn: whether the garlic that I planted inside the HH will do significantly better than that out in the garden. If so, I may devote more space in the HH to garlic next year. Also may think about growing the leafy greens - and possible some other things - in containers in the greenhouse, as today it was MUCH warmer in there than in the HH, and the chard that I had in there, in a flower box and covered with a couple of layers of Reemay, looked a lot better than the chard planted in the ground in the HH. I'm pretty happy to have plenty for a few salads, though -- not too often I've been able to say I was still harvesting garden stuff for a New Year's Eve dinner!
