2011 GARDEN PLAN

by Garden-Wellington

I've already been planning my 2011 garden! I don't know yet how well I'll keep up this blog, but I'll give it a shot, and if anyone's listening perhaps I'll keep it up.Soon I'll be starting seeds for a few crops that will go in a cold frame, probably early April here in Colorado, Zone 5b. I actually already have one cold frame planted. I started the process too late for fall-early winter harvesting, but I did put in a few spinach & lettuce plants in November that will hopefully survive enoug ...

Leeks

by Garden-Wellington

I've just harvested the last of my 2010 leek crop. Some leeks (sown 3/11 indoors) were put into a cold frame early April, these were harvested first, but the early planting out didn’t give them much advantage. The rest were planted outside 4/28 and most were harvested in December. Some of these had frozen and weren’t the best, ubut edible. Due to the semi-frozen ground, they were difficult to pull up. We used a garden fork and dig up lots of soil with them, then had to warm the dirt clods i ...