We're nearing the end of this 24 hour storm - but I took these photos when we returned home last night from Maine just when the storm was starting.
Despite the storm the chickens were crooning and singing to us - happy we were home and clearly excited about holiday left-overs. They had laid 15 eggs neatly in rows in their nesting box while we were away - and all that remained of the last monster summer squash (harvested in July) was the tough shell. I'd given them something to peck at while we were away and they appeared to have enjoyed it.
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| Coldframe - end of December |
I decided to harvest the last of the greens from the coldframe - mostly going for the bok choy as that recovers well from a hard freeze. We made a simple stir-fry for dinner last night with the bok choy, tofu and a julienned kohlrabi. The coldframes were almost an afterthought this year and we didn't cover them, the wood wasn't insulated and the glass was single-pane, fitting poorly with some gaps. We also were using up old seed and didn't have great germination on the cold-tolerant varieties, so I transplanted summer varieties to fill in the space. All in all - a good showing as we ate lettuces and salads as well as raab and bok choy into the end of December. As a comparison I'm uploading an earlier and later fall photo of the same coldframe:
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| Coldframe - end of October |
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| Coldframe - end of November |
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