It's a start!

The thing I miss most in the winter months, is fresh greens from the garden. There's just nothing like exploring the green growing things, just before a meal, and bringing them in to make a meal. Everything tastes just so delicious and healthy. Jim had already built me a raised bed in the garden to try something new this year, when I read in a gardening magazine about a man in Maine who grew his own salad greens all winter long!

Well, I had to try that! So we put a winter cap on the bed, propped sheets of glass at the ends and planted a variety of lettuces, spinach and peas inside. They just laid there dormant until the longer days of coming spring and now they're coming up. Not a lot yet, but if you look close in the second picture, you can see my almost a garden, coming along, in spite of the mid 20's temperatures outside.

The row to the side of the raised bed is the garlic he planted this fall. It's up an average of 5 inches already and should provide 65 heads of glorious garlic to make our meals savory all summer long. Good things coming soon!