Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

> Monday I was still amending new beds, after ground warmed up by 2pm. 
> Monday night snow, now 14 below. Will snow blanket insulate enough or will 
> ground take forever to thaw to get back to work on it? Time to go thru 
> seeds and order more. Anybody able to make garden progress out there?
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Not a lot Paul. Normally I would have a few things going in the green house 
but even there the temperature at night still drops below zero. I have been 
pruning hedges and harvesting skirret root today.
The sheep too are awfully late, no lambs yet.
john