Re: winter veggies

Some of these vegetables may do well outside the cold frame, saving your
cold frame space for the less hardy.  Lettuce and escarole tend to rot
in the rain, but kale, corn salad and cabbage stand well in the field.  

Steve  (Maritime...)

 

Grem, Beth A wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   I plan on building a cold frame for this fall.  I know kale is very hardy,
> so I will keep that in a separate bed.  I've been reading Eliot Coleman's
> "Four-Season Harvest" (anyone else read this book?).  The veggies I'm
> thinking about for the cold frame are:  winter lettuce, fall radishes
> (daikon?), swiss chard, carrots, and mache.  I have never eaten mache (also
> called corn salad) but he says it is very hardy and I think it would be real
> neat to get veggies out of the garden in January. I was wondering if anyone
> has tried to do this??
> I will still do my obligatory tomato plant inside under lights and attempt
> to get more than 2 cherry toms (hey-that's better than I've done before!).
> 
> Thanks,
> Beth (MD zone 7)
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