Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Ralph" <rsole@kc.rr.com>]

Ernest  Please tell me more about your operation, found it interesting how 
your plants survived at below freezing temps.  Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernest Kuntze" <osmogaia2@earthlink.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:34 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Winter and spring vegetables


> Hi Charlotte
>  I think it is a zone 7 or 8. I don't heat the whole green house I
> use heating mats , on tables ,70 for cool temp. vegetables and  80
> for summer crops i have not turn it off for 10 years, the rest of the
> greenhouse [30 by 96 feet] , is unheated I grow spinach, lettuce and
> salad mix in it. At night in the winter it is from 28 to 35 deg. same
> as out side,but protected from wind and rain,ice and sometimes snow.
> All the rest I grow out side in raised beds covered with row cover
> mostly for the deer. In late Feb ,  I will but it all out side it
> will be 35 to low 40 something , by then I hope. my customers think
> it taste better after some frost has hit it ,  sweeter
> Ernest
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