Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

You know snow is an insulator, hmm? I'm surprised about cabbage though,
what variety was that? Don't some handle cold better than others? Speaking
of walking onions, we checked back at our old place and found most of them
were rotting at the roots from getting waterlogged in summer monsoon. It
was a heavily manured sunken bed - know not to do that here ... 

I read somewhere that in WW II the retreating Russian army survived the
winter by digging up rutabagas in peoples' gardens when the Germans were
doing the scorched earth thing on their march to Stalingrad. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/4/2006 at 7:12 AM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:

>Just wanted to share that yesterday I went out and dug through 6 inches
>of snow and  a sheet of ice, pulled back some polypropylene sheeting and
>got a wonderful cabbage for our dinner!
>
>I'd gotten so accustomed to ignoring threats of precipitation for
>Oklahoma, that I did no preparation for the mini-blizzard we ended up
>having.  However, the bit of protection I had done against the cold
>seems to have saved the cabbage, at least. I haven't checked on my
>walking onions, but I imagine they will be fine in their bed of straw,
>as well.
>
>Laurie Ann
>
>
>
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