Two weeks into our experimental winter window garden of kale and lettuce and we are definitely having some success. I was starting to get a little worried that the whole thing wouldn't be necessary since the temperatures have been around 50 F. It was so warm last Sunday that I turned my garden over to get a first dose of leaf mulch and chicken manure mixed in. This is not one of my usual early-February chores here in New England. Luckily (or not, depending on your perspective), the temperatures are going to turn colder this week so it looks like the window garden will be necessary after all. Whew! You can see the curly leaves of the kale starting to sprout and some of the red lettuce leaves are starting to become apparent.
Of course, short-term success like this only emboldens the
Sustainable Family to try something that is potentially even more exciting... do we dare to try to get actual garden tomatoes in the winter? You bet we do! I put together a few round pots of last year's compost, into which my wife happily planted two different tomato varieties. One is a cherry variety and one is a plum-type.
Less than a week later, here they come!
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