Winter is here, row cover, active

Winter is here, hard freezes. Outside water faucet is frozen all right.
Testing 18F difference under cover, and sorrel indeed is holding it just fine.

Here it is, good and not frozen

 Here is the bed, and covered for winter carrots, one more week and they are very sweet and ready for Thanksgiving 

 

More materials for winter, straw

composting wood chips, one can tell which pile is working :) , road is frozen and works well so far

 

Here are sheet mulch-composting beds set up last season, there is no composting activity in them, just a little in the last layer of wood chips cover for the winter

 And here is the new bed with active composting materials, freshly watered over the weekend (during the day it did thaw out enough to water, but not long enough to roll the hoses....that's not good...)

 hoping for tomorrow, should thaw some... maybe...

Winter around the corner

With winter strong winds came some damages. These are the memories f my nice hawthorn tree that was busted in half by the wind

this one is all gone, good I did not cu the growth around the trunk...

that tiny little twig on the bottom of this tree is all that's left ofit, hopefully will grow back... and the harvest

Winter means lots of dead bugs and birds going for extra protein, nope chickens are not vegetarian eaters by any means... they hunt and mean business, this one is older hen, molting bad

 They finally found this bed nd did some digging

And this one, but not as interested... it has only 1 tree and that's it for now.

Sun room is set up with the self watering tubs experiment and the greens for the winter are seeded.

 caged this time, because last time one particular critter thought the soft dirt is just it to go dig the heart away...hopefully they will have enough sun. Here it is, the winter garden experiment.

Winterized

Winter is here, it froze. lights are up on chicken house and in chicken houses.
Those are led's.

Experiment with cdfl conventional old style garlands for greens cover. supposed to do 18F difference, will see.

So here is what snow did, lots melted yesterday, morning pictures are missing because there was not time for that...

all sunchokes went down under wet night snow, some broken tree branches...

 pepper in snow... yeah

more sunchokes havock 

 frozen garden and a bit cold chickens

 

 flowers in snow...