February was a typical Utah February. Nice. Warm. Sunny. Perfect for tilling the garden and planting a few cold loving spring plants like lettuce, peas, broccoli, cabbage and spinach.
March was cold and snowy, as is typical, so I rigged a makeshift cold frame out of straw bales, plastic and some three gallon buckets filled with water. It kept the plants alive but they didn't grow much. I was looking forward to spring, which I like to think of starting in April.
This is a picture taken on April 16, 2009.
This was the first time I had to physically remove snow off the cold frame. I was impressed that my plants survived that snow storm.
By the time the Provo's Farmers Market had started on May 1st, the snow was gone and the plants had grown quite a bit. Amazing what a little WARMTH will do for plants.
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