Okay, so I’m feeling pretty smug right about now. As I drive through our area here in the mountains of western North Carolina, I see lots of my neighbors tilling up their annual garden plots. Yep, lots of fresh dirt out there. But here on The Little Half Acre?
Ta-da! A garden! I no longer resent all those “put the row cover and plastic on-take the row cover and plastic off” evenings and mornings when I fought Mother Nature over frigid overnight temps. It was worth it!
I did get some damage on a few of the peas and a few of the cabbage but, overall, planting early then covering the garden with row cover and/or plastic hoop tunnels on cold nights definitely paid off. I was able to pull a few small kale plants to add to our salad last night. What a delightful way to thin the kale bed! I also snipped a few small spinach leaves and, today, I’ll cook our first batch of mustard greens. Yum!
And, although I got a late start on “starting” the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, I’ll soon toss those babies into my very ripe straw bales (see previous post).
