Staying warm and picking for the market this week

11 years ago

Cold is here to stay for this week, we got over a foot of snow today and have a stiff NE wind at 25-35 mph. I guess that is better than just the 35 to 50mph winds we were getting???

Harvested Monday after school for Friday afternoon market. Most markets are on Saturday, but the location is booked for every Saturday so it was Friday or nothing. Running out of produce, not a bad thing, just wish we had more to offer. Won't make this mistake again of not getting stuff planted on time. I will take a day off work to make things happen next fall, if I need to.

Most of the lettuce was too small to sell as single heads, so I just tore them off the stalk and will sell as bagged lettuce. Heavy on the Red, but it sells the best and is the hardiest.

The Kale is slow to grow back too, so I am just selling mixed bags of it. Scarlet, Dinosaur, Winterbor and some Red Russian.

Of course I will have carrots.

Also for the first time this winter, I will have spinach. Sorry forgot to get a pick before I bagged it. I will also have Cilantro.
I could have more spinach, but I ran out time to pick it. Also, it won't warm up enough, until this weekend to harvest it. So I will just go with what I have. I just hope the snow storm this Friday isn't as big as this one was. How is the weather in your area?

Jay

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boulderbelt
11 years ago
we are still harvesting collards, leeks, parsnips and kale. Though the last 3 in the list are under ice and snow and not in hoop houses so not really available at the moment.

We harvest using a toboggan and coolers so we can get over the snow and things don't freeze sledding back to the packing building/store
cole_robbie
11 years ago
Did your high tunnels hold the foot of snow with the interior posts to support the roof? Or did you sweep the snow off as it fell?
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jrslick (North Central Kansas, Zone 5B)
Original Author
11 years ago
Funny thing about the snow, it was a light powdery snow and with all the wind, it just blew off. There was some drifting on one part of one side of two of them, but it was nothing that concerned me too much. I did clear the snow away from the sidewalls of two of them as the drifts were almost up to the hip boards!. Actually I haven't swept snow off the buildings all winter. If I was home during our Christmas snow storm, I would have then, but we were out of town and I had to just hope they would make it, and they did.
cole_robbie
11 years ago
Snow is funny that way, isn't it? The storm that collapsed my high tunnel dumped about 6"of ice and sleet, which stuck to everything.

Your produce looks great. It is a marvel to be producing anything in weather so cold.
derock_gw
11 years ago
It wasn't the 6" of wet snow so much as the 3/4" of rain that fell immediately after that was the downfall of one of my caterpillar hoop houses this winter. Nothing was growing (unheated) but it almost squashed my BCS tiller. Now that would have been a tragedy!