Warm and Sunny

After days of near zero temperatures and snow flurries, we have a warm and sunny Saturday just right for prepping cold frames. We lifted the recycled doors from one bed, tore the brittle plastic off the other, and dumped a wheelbarrow full of composted horse manure in and mixed it up.

The forecast for the next several days indicates temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, so I rummaged through last year's seeds, looking for spinach or lettuce. No lettuce, and the Burpee's order hasn't arrived, so spinach it had to be. Spinach seeds are pretty cheap, so I scattered about 1/4 oz of them into the first bed. The soil and compost are moist enough that if we place the doors on the frames again tonight and leave them, the seeds should germinate as if it were already spring.

Mesclun mix lettuce seeds will be sown in the other bed when the Burpee's order arrives in a few days. We should be eating and selling mixed baby lettuces by April 15.