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simy1 · 18-08-2006, 02:33 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible

wrote:
Anyone doing it?

I have two gardens, one of which I almost not touch before november 1.
Around Thanksgving i cover the beds with poly tunnels. The tunnels keep
the soil almost unfrozen inside (it might freeze for a few days, but
one sunny day is enough to thaw). The plants are cold-hardy vegetables
planted in late spring to late summer. They are typical of winter
gardens the world over; collard, savoy cabbage, kale, carrots,
radicchio, various mustards. I also have beets and parsnips in the
tunnels. This is SE Michigan and I usually harvest until february and
again second growth starting in March.

You can of grow vegetables through the winter, so long as the
vegetables established themselves the summer before (grow is perhaps
the wrong word, you keep them alive for winter harvest). The light is
more than enough. They grow veggies under cover in France, after all,
which is much farther North than here.