{"id":1406,"date":"2014-02-01T21:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T01:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-03-10T23:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T03:31:44","slug":"winter-lockdown-winter-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/winter-lockdown-winter-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter lockdown, winter gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Icy<\/a>
Dawn on January 24, 2014, near Western Shore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been a cold winter, except when it thawed of course, as it usually does once in January before the snow locks us in again.<\/p>\n

\"garden<\/a>
Jan. 15: Coldframes, hardy strawberry plants toughing it out, and double-covered greens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The snow we had in December, which made us happy at Christmas, had melted completely by January 15, exposing the coldframes and mini hoop houses in my garden.<\/p>\n

\"lettuce<\/a>
Lettuce \u00a0‘Merveille de quatre saisons’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peeling off the layers of plastic and row cover on the mini hoop house showed that there was lettuce within, still looking perky after the deep freeze.<\/p>\n

No wonder; its name is “Merveille de quatre saisons” – which you could translate as “Four-Season Wonder”.<\/p>\n

If you pick your plants well, plant them at the right time, and shelter them adequately, you can indeed eat from the garden year round.<\/p>\n