Little Gems, meet your new view, the mid-winter Portland cityscape. Today, under winter’s cloudy skies, but reasonably warm nonetheless (snowless, too; sorry, NY, DC, etc), I planted lettuce starts on the rooftop…the very same that I started a mere 25 days ago in my January 1st ritual seeding to augur in a good new year. Normally […]
Category Archives: Overwintered Crops
The Best Winter Tenants
I was thinking about cover crops the other day, and suddenly the property owner in me had a realization: cover crops are like tenants. I don’t know if you’ve ever rented property out, but I’m willing to bet that at some point on the arc of your adult life you were a renter. No matter which side […]
Dispatches from the Winter Garden
An apology: Something happened to this post whereby much of it got underlined and nearly deleted. At the risk of losing it entirely, I am keeping it as is. Sorry for the inconvenience of having to view everything as if it were a book title. Winter parsley is an exalted version of its already-awesome self. […]