Winter arrived in Philadelphia this past week. For a couple of days, the temperature didn’t get out of the 20s. The low dipped into the teens on two nights. The bout of winter ended with half an inch of snow capped by freezing rain.
The shelter housing my overwinter garden, a thin row cover stretched over wire hoops, sagged under the weight of the frozen precipitation but held up without trouble.
The spinach underneath came through it all looking as healthy as ever.