Wednesday, December 21, 2011

first snow

It has been incredibly windy the past couple of weeks, we even had to give up on the row cover as it was just getting blown away.  However we got the first official snow on Dec 15th.  Quite late this year.  Up until this point we had been harvesting some pak choi, mizuna and spinach leaves, which were tiny due to their late planting but nonetheless delicious.  We even got a decent harvest of French breakfast radishes due to the unseasonably warm weather, although the mice seemed to enjoy them as well.  We also emptied and covered the two rain barrels as they were starting to freeze over and we didn't want to risk them cracking.