Saturday, January 29, 2011

Greenhouse in January 2011



This is what it looks like outside right now. I am walking toward the greenhouse.

Do you remember the Egyptian Onions? ~ Here is how they look today! A little depressed, but still very much alive:



Here is a view inside the greenhouse from the door:



I've half uncovered the bed so you can see what's under the floating row cover:



Here is some mache (corn salad).



The little "bunching onions." I still don't know what a bunching onion is, but anyway, here they are and you can see plenty of happy chickweed growing amongst them:



One kind of kale:



And another kind of kale:



Now, look at the Swiss Chard. You can see it has been discouraged by severe cold weather we've had lately, but it is still strong and keeps producing, and it will into the coming Spring and Summer. When the hotter weather comes (and it will!) I will cut off any attempts of the Swiss Chard plants to "bolt" or go to seed, and will still have lovely chard for months to come:



See what's happening with the leaf lettuce? It is considerably more tender than the other plants, but hanging on and still trying to produce:



And here are the green onions. Messy! But still quite usable. I like them in so many ways... soups, stir-fries, omelets, in salads:



It is 34 F outside, and look how nice and warm it is in the greenhouse because the sun is shining today:



Here is what I picked. I will juice these pretties with some carrots and an apple. Oh, heaven!



A few days late, but I linked this up with Simple Lives Thursdays!

6 comments:

  1. How lucky to have a green house and still enjoy the fruit of your work.
    Meanwhile I am still dreaming on spring.

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  2. Thanks for stopping by and leaving the sweet comments. I will try that with my cactus. Love your green house. I planted bunching onions for the first time last summer. They were given to me by our neighbor. Very interesting, you plant the one bulb and it will produces a clump of onions. Some of the plants would have up to six or more onions connected to the original one. I have and icecream pail of onions saved to use for next year. Only planted about a dozen bulbs. Have a great day!

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  3. It makes me feel closer to summer!

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  4. Thanks for stopping by and leaving the sweet comments. I will try that
    with my cactus. Love your green house. I planted bunching onions for
    the first time last summer. They were given to me by our neighbor. Very
    interesting, you plant the one bulb and it will produce a clump onions under it. They do not get real big, at least mine didn't. I have an icecream pail of onions saved
    to use for planting this year. Only planted about a couple dozen bulbs and ended up with more than we could use. Have a great
    day!

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  5. Oh wonder of wonders, what are you going to do with the Chickweed? Hopefully include with your salad or dry it and keep it.

    I just discovered the lowly Chickweed as a super-herb, kind of similar to Plantain, and am now anxious to get my hands on it. Oh where is it when you want it!!!

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  6. Cathy, I did try some chickweed last summer and to me it tasted really bad. But I am wondering if maybe it would be more palatable during the cold weather. I'll have to pluck a leaf and see what I think! I am not afraid of food, nor does it have to taste a certain way, but that stuff was just plain icky. Sigh.....

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