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The greenhouse and surrounding field continue to look lush and voluptuous, as these pictures show.
February 2012: Warm enough to shed outer layers of clothes
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A rainy day, with a promise of Irene to come
Today’s agenda was planting mizuna, spinach, and other greens in the last half-bed of our winter garden. This year we are working with five long rows, and in previous weeks, we had filled most of them with leeks, kale, collards, … Continue reading
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Protectors of the organic garden
As I’ve written before, one of the big differences between winter and summer gardening is pest control. Provided the seedlings we are nursing now stay healthy into the fall, the cold weather will knock back most of the pests we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Argiope aurantia, beneficial spider, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse effect, hoop house, Hudson Valley, pest control, Tomato, vegetable, Winter garden, winter harvest
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Out with the Kale, in with the Kale
“Hey, Logan,” I asked. “Have you ever tried to grow fennel?” “I have, but it always bolts,” she said. And that’s why I ran right out and bought fennel seeds after another workday at the greenhouse. Based on our experience … Continue reading
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Workday at the greenhouse
There’s an aura of voluptuousness inside the greenhouse, with squash vines spilling over into the walkways, tomatoes getting waist high, and stalks of lettuce going to seed. Today, after excusing myself a few times when tromping through squash leaves, I … Continue reading
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You can eat carrot greens! Who knew?
Sometimes, a piece of information falls into your lap at precisely the moment you need it. That’s what happened when I read “Yes, Carrot Tops are Edible…and Delicious” in Gilt Taste, a new online magazine and specialty shop selling artesanal … Continue reading
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Spring doings at the greenhouse: a photo gallery
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“A meal any way you look at it”: Cooking from the greenhouse
I asked people in our group how they’d been cooking from the greenhouse lately. Lydia said, “I am just a fan of sautéing some onions and garlic and throwing in anything we picked from the greenhouse. I cook it for … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Carrot, Cooking, food, garden, gardening, greens, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, Mizuna, Radicchio, recipes, salad, vegetable, vegetables, winter harvest
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Snow is good, and that’s no April Fool
In January, some of the Winter Bounty group attended a talk by Cary Institute scientist Peter Groffman, entitled Snow is Good. Peter described experiments in which he removed snow pack from forest areas in the White Mountains of New Hampshire; … Continue reading
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Of sweet vegetables, flattened foliage, and purple leaves
We’ve reported earlier on three qualities we observed in our vegetables this winter: the supernatural sweetness of flavor, the propensity of the foliage to flatten to the ground, and a purplish cast on much of the foliage. We found more … Continue reading
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