Growing Spinach Under Snow

My Mt. Airy spinach hoop house, Jan. 6, 2017, after a 1-inch snowfall

I didn’t want to toss off the blanket of snow and pull up the row cover to look, but the crops underneath are deep green and glowing in the sunlight filtering through after a 1-inch snowfall covered my backyard garden last night. The temperature will dip into the low teens tomorrow night. Most of my plants should survive–I’m not so sure about the radish sprouts and last little heads of lettuce–but the spinach, kales and one collard plant shouldn’t be fazed.

Nice place for spinach on a snowy day

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Meantime, here are the salad fixings that I picked on New Year’s Day. Yes, it was a very tiny salad.  Keep in mind, folks, the main goal of my overwinter garden isn’t winter production as much as it is a really early spring flush of greens, from plants that will continue yielding cuttings right up to the edge of summer.

Spinach, lettuce, kale and radish sprout harvested on New Year’s Day, 2017

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