Tis Thanksgiving Eve, and a fresh salad is on the menu for tomorrow. So although it is spitting frozen rain outside, I need to pick greens now rather than face freezing the greens by picking them in the colder morning temperatures. My fingers are still cold and stiff because gloves are too cumbersome for picking greens.
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| Cold Frame, November 27th, 2013 |
This is the salad cold frame over at the park. The two wooden beams are to help hold down the glass against the wind. I have been pleasantly surprised that the wind across the park seems to flow right over the frames without pulling off the unattached glass panels. A deep snow breaking single pane glass is a far different story. With disappointing results.
Here is the cold frame with the glass covers off. One morning so far was down to 18 degrees, and another to 19 degrees. Froze a lot of veggies, but not the covered lettuce. Even the collards those mornings looked really stressed and limp. After this noreaster and at least three inches of rain, the cold hardy crops have perked up quite a bit. Including this patch of ice encrusted kale that is going to be partially harvested for dinner tonight.
The greens after washing and then spinning in their high tech pillow case spinner. Neighbors wonder we we are doing twirling pillow cases on the deck. Filled the gallon bag beautifully to transport to the Turkey Day feast.
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Beautiful curly kale crop, November 27th, 2013
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| Saute with oil, garlic and onion, simply scrumptious |
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family George. We will have lettuce for our salad too, but your kale looks much better than mine. The worms from the white moth butterfly moved in a few weeks back and stripped most of the leaves. I wish I had a cold frame like yours to keep this from happening. I guess that better go on the list for next year.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful dinner.