The Modern Victory Garden

The Urban Farm Handbook giveaway had a total of 31 people who tossed their name into the drawing.   On Wednesday I prepared slips of paper with everyone’s name on them that entered and put them in a bowl; tossed them energetically to mix them up; and then my husband did the honors and pulled the winning name out of the bowl.    And the winner is….             

Molly Schultz!                                      

Congratulations Molly!   I have sent you an email requesting your mailing info so I can get this on its way to you.                                       

There were so many people interested in this book, that I was wishing I had a stack of them to give away.                                                     

In other news, we had a fairly sizeable snow storm over the past 24 hours and are currently blanketed in a heavy layer of white stuff.      Temperatures were in the low to mid 20's and cold.                                        

I swept the snow off the grow tunnel cover mid day.                

Forecast is for freezing rain and then a warm up to rain in the next 24 hour period.   The long term forecast is for a week or so of moderate to heavy rains.   Between the melt and the rain it is going to be very wet and chill around here for a while.  Wednesday afternoon I dug into the grow tunnel to trim up the kale plants to give my hens a treat (since they were confined all day to their covered yard due to the snow).   While I was in there I noticed that the kale plants are showing a renewed amount of growth in the main central portion of the plant.   The day length has been noticeably increasing in the past week or two and I think the plants are beginning to respond.    Hurrah!                                                 

It (obviously!) will still be awhile before real growth gets going, but I am encouraged to see the first signs of approaching greener days.               

Laura

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