Not only are the hardy winter greens high in vitamins and earth’s minerals so they are nourishing and good for us; once they have been exposed to cold weather they become much sweeter and are delicious to eat!
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Last workweek , with the impending menace of a cold freezing , I received a call from my neighbor , Denise Sharp . She lives nearby onSharp Farm , where she grow many crops , is open - to - the - public for educational tours and hayrides , keeps livestock , sells vegetable , herb and flowering industrial plant , both retail and sweeping from her two greenhouses and legion dusty bod , and where she and her Logos Alan late built a high-pitched - tunnel glasshouse . Denise is a dynamo — she never seems to slow down down — if she is not turn on the farm , she is refurbishing a sign or working on machinery or off somewhere hiking or skiing .
Since the new - this - year , gamy - tunnel sign of the zodiac is not being heated during the wintertime calendar month ( at least not this year ) , I was the fortunate receiver of her invitation to come and harvest nifty gobs of greens before they succumbed to the block temperatures . So I put out , dressed in many layers , with boxes and limiter . When I arrived Denise and her help were hunkered down cutting greens . They had already pulled the common fennel bulb and dress back all of the Swiss chard , hoping the latter might sprout again .
The nursery is about 110 - feet long by 22 - infantry wide with galvanized pipe supports and double layers of heavy plastic . There are fans and doors at both ends . The walkway runs down the centre and there are planting bed on both face . Denise tell me that she impart lots of amendments and peat to make the Maryland Henry Clay dirt friable . She has been reap the in - priming crop all fall . Besides greens like arugula , cilantro , frisee , tat - soi , bok choy , spinach , baby lettuces , kale , broccoli rabe and chard , she had a few stem crops — the fennel , beets and some scallions — not to observe a adorable Tennessean crop of mouse eared chickweed .
I peeled off one stratum of dress after shooting some photos and begin harvesting some of this late drop , brave bounty . I also helped clear a few beds , tear out boodle and coriander . Then I loaded up my pillage of boxes of greens and headed rest home . Whereupon , I unloaded them and convey some photos and then pick over , crop and bagged some of them for store ; trimmed the coriander plant and put in a jar with water and localize it on the kitchen windowsill ; and washed the greens that I was break down to ready for dinner party in my salad spinner .
Last calendar week , I posted a recipe forTangy Kale Slawand today I ’ll write the recipe forLentil Soup with Greens — a mere and warming wintertime soup . Not only are the brave winter greens eminent in vitamins and earth ’s mineral so they are nourishing and good for us ; once they have been exposed to cold weather they become much sweeter and are delicious to eat !
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A bounty of winter greens grown in a high-tunnel greenhouse on Sharp Farm. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
