permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

If you want to seriously delve in to microclimates, find "Climate Near the
Ground" by Rudolf Geiger (brother of the Geiger counter inventor). Although
it's pretty detailed, college-textbook level writing, there's no math to
speak of, and his stories and description of how different cultures use
microclimates was very helpful for an article I wrote for the Activist years
ago. It's the best book on the subject.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com



On 5/4/07 10:08 AM, "Loren Davidson"  wrote:

> At 9:33 AM -0700 5/4/07, Tracy Dee Cook wrote:
>> 
>> Beets that I similarly covered with straw I harvested
>> up through mid December. The straw kept the ground
>> from freezing as quickly. With the snow cover it was
>> beginning to be more difficult to find them, so I dug
>> them all up (but did get ~2 months of extra harvest
>> time)
> 
> Next year, you could place tall stakes around the bed, so that you
> can find it even in deep snow.
> 
> Loren