Winter Gardening

Pavel314 wrote: ...

don't they have heated buckets for that?

i've been sorting beans again and making selections for planting in the spring.

just finished up the bulk beans and now switching to the more fun sorting where i get to look at all the cross-breeds and off varieties. now that the seeds have had some time to mature/darken a little.

nice to have the sun out, but it is plenty cold here too. most nights near or below 0F. don't even talk about wind chills, i don't go outside at night anyways.

deer ran into side of car so having to deal with that. expensive body check and it got up and ran away.

songbird

o go out in the morning with a hatchet to break the ice and bring a pail of hot water to top it off.

I have a 15-gallon plastic bucket which has heating coils in the bottom. It 's been plugged in but when the temperature gets below about 15F, it has tr ouble keeping up. When the temps are in the single digits, like the last fe w nights, it freezes over. Tonight and tomorrow are supposed to be single-d igit, then back to normal.

My wife is planting turkey gizzard beans this year. We've had them before, nice big shelly beans which are better eating than the name would imply.

Paul

It is too cold here to over winter anything that grown above ground. My garlic and shallots (old for the tops) seem to be enjoying the cold.

If it does not rain in two weeks, I will give everyone a quick spritz.

Goji's have gone dormant. Chock berries, who knows, it was the second round of bare roots I put in the ground. Bill Berries seeds, I will have to wait and see. Supposedly, they "require" the cold to germinate.

Oh, and I GOT WEEDS! I have a beautiful green carpet of grass shoots and wild carrot tops. When I get enough sunlight, I will vinegar them. I was hoping the cold would kill them, but it only made them germinate.

Death to Weeds! Death to Earwigs!

:-)

-T

T wrote: ...

yes, the carrots/queen-annes-lace like cool and moist to get going.

good sign though, weeds tell you that there is something worthwhile in the soil and enough moisture to do something. nature will find a way. :)

did you see my post a while ago about a possible more bug resistant kind of squash that is enough like a zuke?

songbird

"borer resistant squish"? I will go back and look at it!

Terry Coombs wrote: ...

no rush! i don't plant until mid to late May for many things.

songbird