More snow

Mark waits for his turn on the sled

The greens in the unheated hoophouse are thriving. We ate a delicious lettuce salad the other night from it. There's even a stray lettuce plant not under cover that's still alive. I'm not sure why they are doing so well. Everything I've read makes me think the lettuce should be dead and only the kale and maybe the baby bok choy alive. I suspect its because it has not been bitterly cold and all the snow has really sealed up and insulated the greenhouse well. You can see in the greenhouse behind Mark that the snow from the roof is almost all the way up the sides.

It wasn't really intentional to try out overwintering greens. These are just plants that never got big enough in time to harvest for Thanksgiving market. At this point we don't really have the infrastructure or markets to be worth commercially harvesting them, and there's not a whole lot up there, anyway. But its enough for us to enjoy and a good learning experience. Hopefully we can extend our commercial growing season to Christmas next year.

The snow has been relatively light and dry and a little at a time, which is good. The greenhouses have been shedding well. The greenhouse behind Mark in the photo above I've only brushed off once, and even then I'm not sure it really needed it.

In the meantime, we've all been enjoying the snow. Happy new year!!

Sledding!

More sledding!