Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Well, we've had a solid month of cold and snow on the ground, another 6" last 
nite and single digits. So maybe I jumped the gun pulling mulch back from the 
shallot beds. Shoots in the garlic beds don't seem to mind the cold. Was 
hoping to start framing the top on the 18'x24' pepper greenhouse today since 
the last 8" finally melted, but nooooooooo. At least frozen mornings this 
month let me finish two 3'x24' plant benches in the new seedling greenhouse 
which got covered in Dec. My hope with that (among other uses) is to have 
gallons of butternet & delicata to set out in may and mature before the 
grasshopper invasion, and use crookneck or pumpkin as trap crops. Last year 
they relieved me of having to harvest the squash and carrots.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/22/2010 at 11:16 PM henry walden wrote:

>Oh ya that is a fine chili you grow, a fine chili my freind!
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>Ed
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