January has been pretty busy and I haven’t really done anything much except to take care of the compost pile and cover or uncover the low tunnels inside the Sunflower Hoophouse. But most of January had been unusually mild.applestar wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 8:19 pmI FINALLY got the chance to get out in the garden today — I needed to prepare the Sunflower Hoophouse for the next few days of what feels like a “heatwave”
* Removed the floating covers that had been tucked snugly in direct contact with the greens inside the low tunnels, as well as the solid painters cloth poly tunnel layer.
* Also fixed the light front flap which had blown up and got caught askew during the Christmas weekend — it’s been rolled up and secured since it really doesn’t look like it will be needed
* Also put up the 1” PVC “supplemental snow load support” — not that it will be needed this week….
Today, with the garden and garden plants not pre-conditioned at all well, the overnight low forecast of around 11°F and windchill of possibly negative single digit… …has left me scrambling to lay down the direct contact floating cover inside the low tunnels again.
I also left a lit candle inside the flowerpots “heater.” It might not help but who knows? I feel better for at least doing something.
I also harvested some lettuce, Aspabroc, and one mini napa that tried to head up and got frost bit.