Resilient Greens

So I've got a bit of bloggers block.  There are lots of things I'd like to write about: the challenge to select seeds for our first season of planting, new gardening/green organizations we've found in the Syracuse area, and a review of different natural products we've tried and have now regularly incorporated into our lives, among other topics.  It seems that I have put blogging on the back burner as I enter into the 3rd week stretch without a day off between my two jobs.  Those topics will make it here, eventually, once the blog block has passed.

In the meantime, here are a few photos to keep things current.  We haven't been hit with any of the mega-storms that have buried the east coast with snow.  But in CNY the snow is a constant and an inch or two every day quickly adds up.  On a rare day in January when the sun decided to shine I decided it would be a good opportunity to dig out the cold frames and see if anything was surviving underneath. 

Under the heavy blanket of snow that covered our cold frames we happily found some resilient greens.  I'm hesitant to say that they were thriving, but they were certainly existing.  Even if they are a little too icy to harvest, the hope is that they will remain alive, though dormant, for the rest of the winter and bounce back as the weather starts to warm in the spring. 

There is a bit of frost evident around the edges but they still look very green!

Now it's late February and the sun returned for a fleeting moment.  We went to check out the frames again and though they are still surrounded by two feet of snow, through the windows we can see signs of life.

Mostly everything still looks as good as it did in January and some things, like the mache actually appear to have grown some.  I think it's pretty awesome that we are able to maintain our little winter garden even here, in the winter tundra of Skaneateles, NY!