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Well it is a warm winter’s day here in Roxbury Massachusetts and where am I but outside working in my winter garden. You know having raise beds makes it really easy to extend your growing season into the winter if not throughout the whole winter.
I have here some parsley and oregano that is been growing in my garden since this summer and I have done that by creating a micro climate. We are able to extend our growing season here in the Northeast because we have long enough daytime hours. Our problem is that the temperature is too cold. So what we are doing here is we are creating a micro climate and we are raising the temperature around our plants.
I want to bring that temperature to at least 35 degrees Fahrenheit. So that it is not going to freeze, up to around the daytime temperature of around 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Now I have done that by using these bubbles I call them. They are actually plastic skylights. I ordered a large number of skylights a little while back and a couple of them came broken, and what I did was, I modified those and made them in to a little mini green house. You can also use plastic right here to create a little hoop house or a tunnel to create your micro climate.
Now, the other things you need in order to have a successful winter garden are the right plants. You know a winter garden we can actually grow a large variety of vegetables. We can grow a large variety of lettuces, Swiss chard, carrots, herbs like parsley and oregano obviously and we are going to start some seeds in here right now.
I am Patti Moreno, the garden girl. Thanks for watching.
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