{"id":1330,"date":"2016-12-12T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:36:03","slug":"four-season-gardening-method-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/four-season-gardening-method-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Season Gardening Method Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, welcome to winter in the mountains!\u00a0 From the mid 70’s all the way down to 8 degrees one night, the weather here has been all over the place.\u00a0 My garden beds don’t seem to mind though, thanks to Eliot Coleman and his Four Season <\/a>method of gardening.<\/p>\n

I put a single layer of row cover over my tender spinach, lettuce, mustard and kale plants.\u00a0 I’ve built hoop tunnels using PVC pipe and that got covered with plastic.\u00a0 And, on the two nights of single digit temps, I added an old sheet over the top of the plastic on all but one bed just for extra insulation.\u00a0 That part was my idea, not Eliot Coleman’s.\u00a0 And guess what???\u00a0 It worked!\u00a0 All my young plants have survived overnight temps that would normally finish anything off!<\/p>\n

There wasn’t enough row cover for one bed of tender young red romaine and spinach so all it had was the plastic and the sheet on the hoop tunnels but even that bed is looking good.\u00a0 Here’s what the garden looked like after an overnight low of eight degrees —<\/p>\n