Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>]

> She and her husband bought a green house from a nursery that went out of 
> business and are in the process of setting it up.  It is the frame, hoops and 
> roll plastic type.
>
> They live in a reasonably mild climate area of south central Montana, but 
> Montana non the less.
>
> The question is: Which vegetables are happiest in the green house and which 
> are happier out side?
>
> Thanks from them and us.  Dean

Experiment! As long as your friends are planting *cold hardy* 
vegetables, they should try a wide variety and see what works for them. 
Some, such as spinach, are extremely cold hardy--some, such as lettuce, 
are less so, but will still produce salads longer than they would 
exposed outside, before succumbing to the increasing cold. Cooking 
greens like chard and kale will vary.

Chicories are more cold hardy than lettuces and make fabulous 
deep-winter salads (here in Zone 6b).

Check out more obscure options that are very cold hardy: minutina 
(stella herba--or is it herba stella), claytonia or miner's lettuce, mache.

And if you have leftover cloves of garlic when you plant your fall 
garlic--or stored onions that are still firm but starting to 
sprout--plant them here and there in the greenhouse, and harvest the 
green tops. Good in stirfries, soups, salads.

~Harvey

--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

I truly believe that as long as we have not found peace with the soil, we 
won't find peace above the ground. That as long as we justify the 
exploitation of any organism, other exploitations will follow and we will 
remain parasites, consuming more than participating, and spiralling into 
entropy until we commit mass suicide.  ~Emilia Hazelip