Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Andeanfx" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

Thanks Harvey, this is good info and I am sure she will be glad to use it as 
well as check out your site.  Dean


"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who
falsely believe they are free." Johan W. von Goeth (1749-1832)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Ussery" <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] greenhouse veggies


> >
> > 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
>
> --
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> 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
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