The Cold Frame

Thanks to the carpentry skills of our neighbor I now have a cold frame to protect the winter crop from the turkey. And hopefully it will remain warm enough during frosts to protect the spinach and Chinese broccoli inside. It turns out that the 'flat Dutch' cabbage and the kale will require more room to grow and are happy in frost, so now the search is on for tubs to house these other crops... I'll need chicken/turkey wire to protect these -- our other neighbor recently lost brussel sprouts to the friggin' turkey. I'll try to shoot a photo of it -- it climbs on our roof every evening.. No, we're not eating it for Thanksgiving (don't even ask!)

Here's the spinach (RHS) and Chinese broccoli (left front) with a cabbage (top left) thrown in as an experiment.... It may end up crowding the others, but maybe not since the growing season for the "smaller stuff" is 45 - 50 days, whereas the cabbage is 75-80.

Three more cabbages - probably a little too close, but time will tell. Now to find a place for the kale...