Lettuce, anyone?

The winter garden is doing well. The scheme of using the protective cages as support for frost cover is the right one. So far it has kept the lettuce and escarole from freezing, and temperatures have been down to 13 degrees already. Frankly, the plants are growing so well that Dan made additional bases today to raise the cages off the plants. The only damage I found was where the lettuce leaves had touched the cover.

There are 3 beds growing now. One with cabbage and kale, without frost cover, and the plants are doing just fine without it. One with lettuce and escarole that I started at the end of August, and one bed with additional kale and spinach that was seeded in September. Those plants are still small, but will take off once the weather warms up again.

I do enjoy still being able to go out and gather greens at this time of year.