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thorough soaking. With the foot of manure giving off nutrients as well as heat, no additional fertilizer is needed, and there has been no problem with disease or insects in the cold frames.
This year, the third for the cold frames, the Blackwater gardeners are growing Bib, Oakleaf and Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, Chinese cabbage, radishes, garden cress, chard and roquette. “We tried parsley and carrots. They didn’t take but we’ll probably try again,” Margaret said, adding that spinach managed to make it through most of the winter in the garden and so wasn’t planted in the cold frames.
In April, the exolite panels are stored and winter’s cold frame bed becomes temporary home for tomato seedlings. “We start tomatoes from seed in the house and then around May 1 we transplant them to the cold frame bed. That way, if we get a late frost, we can protect them. Then we move the tomatoes to the garden around May 15,” Gottlieb said.
Each year, the cold frame with its foot of fresh manure is rotated to a new raised bed. “The process adds tremendously to soil fertility,” said Gottlieb. “It’s one rich shot for a garden.”
Reprinted, with permission from Virginia Biological Farmer
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