It may be snowing but our plants are still growing, inside our hoop house that is. Actually, these cabbage and kale plants could survive if they were in the ground right now. They do not mind a little cold weather.
This is an exciting time of year, and a little scary. Right now I have plants growing in our hoop house (which is just an unheated greenhouse) and more plants growing in a limited space in a heated green house. I also have snap peas recently planted in the field as well as the spring cover crop, spinach and mesclun in the ground in the hoop house, and perennial herbs putting on new growth up in the herb garden. The inconsistency of the weather in the spring, however, makes it so I frequently do not know what I will be doing each week. I need the temperatures to be warm, but not too warm, the ground to be dry, but not too dry. Before I started farming I never thought much about the weather, now I think about it almost hourly. Right now it is 31 degrees and clear skies.
