Scroll to bottom of post to see most recent pics!
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| The cold frame is 4'x4' |
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| Installed: January 19, 2014. Late this morning it was 40 degrees outside but the thermometer inside the cold frame with the lid closed was over 60. By the time the outside temps reached the low 50s, it was 70-75 degrees inside the cold frame! |
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| Compost added |
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| Planted 1/20/14: (Top down) Celery, lettuce mix, mesclun mix, 4 rows of carrots & radishes, 2 rows green onions |
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| 70 degrees inside cold frame ~ outside temp 46 |
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| Jan. 28, 2014: Snow! Left snow on cover to insulate against cold temps |
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| Jan. 31, 2014: Radishes are sprouting!! (11 days since planting) See near center of photo. |
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| Feb. 2, 2014: Radishes and Mesclun Mix Sprouts |
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| 2.6.14 Can you see the "rain" falling from the inside of the lid? |
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| 2.6.14 Lots of radishes, mesclun, 7 onion sprouts, 1 lettuce, maybe celery popping up! |
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| 2.8.14 |
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| 2.9.14 |
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| Green onion sprouts! Feb. 9, 2014 |
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| Radish sprouts Feb. 9, 2014 |
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| 2/12/14: About 2.5" of snow on the cold frame (I brushed it off after pic) |
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| 2/13 |
Happy Valentine's Day 2/14 to all the little green sprouts! :) Now the carrots have sprouted up alongside the radishes!
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| 2/15: Preemie Radish Sprout I picked today. I washed it then ate the whole thing. OMG it was so good!!! |
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| 2/15 |
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| 2/15 |
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| 2/16: Reseeded celery for succession planting/harvest |
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| 2/16: Radishes getting bigger leaves! |
2/18/14: Sunny and high of 67 degrees ~ Onions & radishes getting tall!
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| 2/22: radishes (carrots are the tall thin leaves) |
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| 2/22: mesclun mix |
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| top - radishes, lower - onions |
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| March 2, 2014 |
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| March 9, 2014 (I trimmed the stems of the onions and used as scallions!) |
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| Radish Harvest Started on March 12 |
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| March 13: Mesclun mix and radish salad! Homemade creamy ranch dressing made with herbs from the garden! |
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| Happy Spring! March 20, 2014 |
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| March 27, 2014 (All radishes harvested & reseeded) |
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| March 30, 2014 (You can tell we've been eating salads!) |
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| April 6 - Things grow and change rapidly here! |
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| April 13 - Wow everything got so big the past 7 days! |
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| May 4, 2014 - Look how big the carrots have gotten! Yum, the few we've already eaten have been delicious! |
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| May 11, 2014 - The salads are delectable! |
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| Onion bulbs getting big! May 23, 2014 |
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| May 23, 2014 |
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| July 11, 2014: Picked clean but for the one celery plant and several radish plants gone to seed! |
And...I think that's it for this year's cold frame! Stay tuned to the website for future garden plans that are highly likely to be at our new farm in Georgia...Ramsey 7.17.14
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