The End of the Winter Growing Season

Our first winter growing season is over,  and we were amazed by the results we got.  We trialed a lot of different vegetables in the unheated high tunnel and for the most part,  they performed very well.

Having planted mostly in October (a little later than I’d hoped) we got a few cuttings of arugula,  mizuna,  the lettuce mix and spinach.  It was so much fun to walk through the snow in the middle of a 30 degree day and enter a 60 degree high tunnel with green things growing everywhere.

It did get cold in there at night, some mornings the veggies would be frozen solid,  but they thawed and survived,  some of them continuing to grow slowly.

The bok choi made it til about xmas, then the repeated freezes were too much for it.

By the middle of February,  everything that was left was growing again nicely. The arugula did start too bolt however.

Everything (except some kale) has been removed from the tunnels and it has been replanted with arugula,  lettuce mix, spinach,  and a few other things for early spring sales.  Then we plan to put tomatoes and eggplants in there for the summer.

We’ll let you know how it goes