What did you do in your garden today?

[Meadowlark]

Have you had any snow @Meadowlark?

Just a little...mostly ice and sleet. Temps have not been above freezing for two days which is highly unusual for here.

 

[Sheal]

I don't suppose it will stay around very long where you are?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Days like today, I wish for my old wood stove.

We bought a new one about three years ago, cost a fortune, but it's a Govt. approved design that burns cleaner than the old one, chimney sweep hardly gets anything out, and it's not black.

Wood Burning Stoves | Chesneys

chesneys.co.uk

 

[Meadowlark]

I don't suppose it will stay around very long where you are?

This storm has a lot more staying power than usual...several consecutive days below freezing is very unusual for here.

 

[Meadowlark]

We bought a new one about three years ago, cost a fortune, but it's a Govt. approved design that burns cleaner than the old one, chimney sweep hardly gets anything out, and it's not black.

Wood Burning Stoves | Chesneys

chesneys.co.uk

Nothing heats like a wood stove...and the power grid never takes it out.

 

[Heirloom farmer1969]

Nothing heats like a wood stove...and the power grid never takes it out.

I wouldn't part with my old wood &coal stove for anything.
I normally burn wood for the majority of the winter months, but when it's 0 or below, like we are having this week, you can't beat coal!!
I loaded the stove at 5am this morning with about 30 pounds, and I'm sitting here looking through the spring seed catalogs online with two windows cracked open.
The house got up to 80 degrees, which is way too hot for my liking.
Funny: when I'm working outside planting my veggies, 80 feels cool, but in the house it's unbearable.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Nothing heats like a wood stove...and the power grid never takes it out.

Also with pruning the oak tree, cutting down the overgrown leylandiis and the various upstart hornbeam and ash, now it has seasoned it's free heat as well.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Lovely, and there are some "Twiggy pea sticks" there when you rune it Seriously, love trees in winter. There are a lot of oaks around here, it was pretty much oak forest at one time and there are a good few left as single trees or sometimes in a row along a hedgerow.
In 1066 William had been marauding along the costal plain, but the only sensible way inland for an army was on one road that ran North, otherwise it was dense forest, that's why Harold met him just down the road from here at the place now called Battle. If part of the shield wall hadn't been tempted into pursuit it might have worked. It changed attitudes about cavalry versus infantry for quite some time.
Meanwhile we cut the forest down to build war ships, or make charcoal to smelt iron for their guns and left just a few trees so they look good against the winter sky.
Sorry, I get carried away easily.

 

[Logan]

Cut back some of the brambles that are slowly taking over around the side of the house, managed to pull some of the roots up, but will have to dig the rest out.

 

[Tundra20]

Nothing heats like a wood stove...and the power grid never takes it out.

old wood stove is only thing that saved my greenhouse had some single digit nights and its stayed bout 50 wood heat gets it done i still got herbs and lettuce n greens growing

 

[Tundra20]

picked the rest of one bed of carrots
chkin soil temps here in greenhouse 55-60 thruout so will be replanting this week

 

[Heirloom farmer1969]

picked the rest of one bed of carrots
chkin soil temps here in greenhouse 55-60 thruout so will be replanting this week

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You are definitely blessed to be able to pick fresily grown carrots in the middle of winter!!
I bought a couple packs to snack on threw this winter storm and cold weather from the supermarket and just couldn't tolerate the taste and ended up throwing them in the wood stove.
50plus years on this earth and it still amazes me how much better everything homegrown tastes than store bought.

 

[Tundra20]

You are definitely blessed to be able to pick fresily grown carrots in the middle of winter!!
I bought a couple packs to snack on threw this winter storm and cold weather from the supermarket and just couldn't tolerate the taste and ended up throwing them in the wood stove.
50plus years on this earth and it still amazes me how much better everything homegrown tastes than store bought.

thank you !! you are correct im very blessed
these are grown in wicking beds inside a greenhouse and have done really well this yr bout to replant for spring harvest that hopefully take us most of way thru summer

nothing like eating what you have grown so many today dont know what its like or what it means too

 

[Meadowlark]

...nothing like eating what you have grown so many today dont know what its like or what it means too

So true and so sad...why grow garden veggies, that's what the grocery stores are for is an all-too-common attitude.