Garden Notes: January 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025 19:43
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Rainfall
- 5th: 0.17″
- 6th: 0.66″
- 10th: 0.41″
- 18th: 0.22″
- 27th: 0.4″
- Total so far: 1.86 inches
Snowfall
- 10th: 1.0″
Temperature
- range of nighttime lows: 14 to 38°F (-10 to 3°C)
- range of daytime highs: 26 to 69°F (-3 to 21°C)
Greenhouse temps: for the lowest overnight temps of the month
- 9th: outside 16°F (-9°C), greenhouse 25°F (-3.5°C)
- 20th: outside 17°F (-8.3°C), greenhouse 26°F (-3°C)
- 21st: outside 18°F (-7.7°C), greenhouse 26°F (-3°C)
- 22nd: outside 14°F (-10°C), greenhouse 22°F (-5.5°C)
- 23rd: outside 16°F (-9°C), greenhouse 24°F (-4°C)
Greenhouse Notes
- With the temps, I’m looking at two things
- the lowest temps
- persistent low temps
Garden Notes
- Freezing temps have pretty much killed everything off.
- Except the kale and collards.
- And I’m harvesting well-mulched turnips for both us and the goats.
- One pleasant days I continue to work on bed and aisle clean-out and mulching.
- I haven’t made a big seed order so far this year. Rather, I’m buying select packets at the stores I shop at. Most of them now carry a choice of organic and non-GMO seeds, so a little here and a little there is easy on the budget while building my seed collection.
Harvested
- kale
- turnips
- lettuce
- chickweed
- Jerusalem artichokes
- dandelion root
- hopniss
Planted
- lettuce (greenhouse)
- Egyptian walking onions (hoophouse)
- thyme (hoophouse)
Photos
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| Photo was taken Jan. 5th of our last summer tomato, ripened inside, with some of our greenhouse lettuce. |
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| The only thing alive in the garden: kale and collards |
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| Turnips store will in the well-mulched ground. |
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| Hopniss (sometimes called ground nuts) are good boiled or in stew. |
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| Greenhouse greens: chickweed, lettuce, and kale. |
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| Also broccoli! This is actually from a plant I had last winter. Somehow it survived the summer, even with a lot of neglect. |
We’re in a warming trend (yay!) Yesterday was our warmest day this month, but we’re not sure how long it will last. We’re still grateful for it.
How is everyone else doing? Anyone making garden plans for next year?
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