Inside the Growing Dome, though, we have a flourishing garden of winter veggies.
On the left are Waldmann's Dark Green lettuce and a red lettuce variety. I can't remember its name, but will look it up if you are interested. I use a cut and come again technique. All these lettuces have had haircuts and the leaves just keep growing back. All I do is use some organic fertilizer on them once in a while and we've had lettuce all winter.
That's some rainbow chard to the right of the lettuce. I will give them a trim, too, but their leaves take longer to grow back.
Below, take a look at the kale, romaine and basil.
I tried this dwarf kale for the first time in the dome and it's doing well. I keep cutting its leaves and they grow right back. The same goes for the romaine lettuce, called Little Gem. It's the gift that keeps on coming. These little varieties for the dome are perfect because it's just the two of us eating from this garden and they don't take up too much space.
At Trader Joe's I bought a pot of live basil for $3.99. When I looked more closely, there were five separate plants, so re-potted four of them and stuck the fifth in the dome's planter bed. All are doing well, but if we were to get some sub zero weather, we'd cover them and say a prayer since basil is a definitely a warm weather plant.
Outdoors it's still too cold to plant anything, but here's a look at my bed of garlic, its shoots peeking up from the straw mulch I put on there last fall. Plant garlic by Halloween and it's ready for harvest by the Fourth of July.
I have big plans for these raised beds. We all just have to wait.
Last, a reason why I love living here. Yesterday I stopped off at our local grocery store, a little place that has shown much improvement since we moved here almost four years ago.
I needed eggs, and among the Shur-Fine brand eggs, were these. They are from a local farmer who I know and trust and isn't it just cool that I can say, "Oh, those are Roger's eggs."
And aren't they pretty?
That's all today, peeps. I am close to a quilt finish, so stay tuned.
I'm anxious to get some things planted in the greenhouse myself! I have a potted chive out there that is thriving, but haven't put anything else in yet... it's been too cold to want to be outside much, but that is changing. Hopefully I can get some prep work done next week. Can't believe it's been almost a year since we had the greenhouse put in!
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