It's difficult to tell in this picture, but those white lumpy shapes are hoop houses for my winter garden. How well they'll work as our real winter weather with snow and winds sets it...no one knows. But if it fails, that's okay...I'll have more information with which to make intelligent decisions for next year. I can already tell that I've made mistakes. I'm okay with the cabbage and corn salad, the carrots and the parsnips. Instead of broccoli and peas I should have just concentrated on spinach.Because it's shorter and has a direct cycle...edible leaves instead of "fruit" as the product. Under straw in this photo, and there is a lot you can't see in the back, are plots of fava beans, onions and garlic.
Now I need to be clever enough to both mark the plots and to carry a notebook out there and diagram all of the plantings. Because as we all know too well, markers can and do fade. I don't want to be the proud propagator of "mystery garlic" in a few years. I already have "good drying beans".
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