All spring and summer I cut leaf lettuce from my salad garden window boxes. Instead of using the irrigation, as in years before, I collected the cold shower water (that precedes the nice toasty temperature water) in an extra trash can. That water was the only life fluid of these boxes, except for the monthly dose of worm tea that comes from my hardworking worm-stock in my garage worm ranch, working their magic on food scraps and newspaper.
When the cold snap came, I had to do something to keep the salad greens coming. Beth Wilson, of Green Light Garden, and I rigged these box covers from three wire hangers, and plastic left over from a painter’s drop cloth, and a few staples.
"Salad Gardenbox" photo credit: Lizzy Massa-MacLeod
So far, so good. I cut leaf lettuce through the first three-day freeze. I hope I make it through the next.
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