We got our freeze, but no snow. The picture above shows my lettuce and chives with frost. I think the lettuce looks really pretty with its ruffle edges! Once the sun came out the fall vegetables were just fine, they can tolerate light freezes without protection.
This shows my chard (with a couple of tree leaves laying on top) frilled with frost. It, too, is hardy in our area.
This picture shows a nice stand of hay in one of my unfinished garden boxes. This is the box I put my straw bales in while I was breaking them down and using them in my pathways. This bed was not mulched--the only things coming up in my mulched beds is what I planted, no weeds!. This is a green manure or cover crop that is cut and put on the ground as mulch, or dug into the soil, before it produces seeds. Because I don't dig in my garden, I will just lay straw over this grass to lay it down and stop its growth. This benefits the soil and the good organisms that are in the soil, plus next years crops.
We got our freeze, but no snow. The picture above shows my lettuce and chives with frost. I think the lettuce looks really pretty with its ruffle edges! Once the sun came out the fall vegetables were just fine, they can tolerate light freezes without protection.
This shows my chard (with a couple of tree leaves laying on top) frilled with frost. It, too, is hardy in our area.
This picture shows a nice stand of hay in one of my unfinished garden boxes. This is the box I put my straw bales in while I was breaking them down and using them in my pathways. This bed was not mulched--the only things coming up in my mulched beds is what I planted, no weeds!. This is a green manure or cover crop that is cut and put on the ground as mulch, or dug into the soil, before it produces seeds. Because I don't dig in my garden, I will just lay straw over this grass to lay it down and stop its growth. This benefits the soil and the good organisms that are in the soil, plus next years crops.
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