Garden Faithful

The Daily Gardener

March 27, 2011

Gardening is an exercise in faith. My first Square Foot Gardening Class starts next Thursday at the Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier, VT at 6:00 PM and there isn’t much outdoors to encourage us to believe that we will be gardening any time soon.  Still planning a garden is gardening just the same and we will be studying the basics of Square Foot Gardening at the workshop.

As an act of gardener’s faith my wife and I planted garlic last Fall and I hope to see the first green sprouts emerging soon.  Garlic has been a reliable crop for many years, it is the first to appear in early Spring.  We also planted spinach, carrots and few experimental heads of cabbage last Fall too.  Fall planted spinach has grown well in previous years but we are experimenting with hoop houses and overwintering carrots and cabbages as we try to find ways to extend the outdoor garden season.  Keep you fingers crossed!  Oh, a hoop house you ask, it is a cross between a cold frame and greenhouse and the subject of a future post.