A nice salad for tonight. Mixed lettuce, tatsoi, baby spinach and French Breakfast radishes. YUM!!!!
Add a few carrots, celery and olives. Mix it all together and you have garden fresh salad!
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Salad from the Hoop House
Salad Greens
Papa is Back! Fall and Winter Growing in the Hoop House!
Howdy folks! I am glad to be back. The hoop house is in production for late fall and winter gardening.
Cabbage, Collards, Broccoli, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Oriental Greens, Radishes and Beets have been started and are on the grow. Higher than average temperatures are making the plants grow faster than I expected. Every season is an adventure.
Under the row cover, the environment is like an incubator. Germination is slow but sure. Tasty veggies will soon be on the menu!
Leeks for late winter/early spring harvest. Yum!!
Soon, Sweet peas will be grown on trellises on the northern most bed in the hoop house. Hopefully we will have flowers in late winter/early spring.
Using Christmas lights will supplement the heat needed to speed up production in the hoop house. The lights will be strung from the low tunnel hoops just above the soil and ground cover.
Stay tuned for continued updates.
Papa
Salad Made Easy!!
Spring time is for salads! An easy way to grow your own salads, use bowls and other decorative containers. Fill the containers with good potting soil and some compost, sow your lettuce or salad mix seeds, water the seed in and watch it grow! Grow in full sun or partial shade, with temperatures between 45 degrees to 70 degrees (F). Cut the greens one (1) inch above the soil and the greens will grow again. We call this “cut and come again”. Sometimes you can do this twice!! You can even raise your own radishes.
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