Winter garden

 The Yarnell Community Garden Project decided for the first time to try a winter garden. So we constructed hoop houses to protect the plants.

 Our first winter crop included broccoli and cauliflower, which I planted and brought down to the greenhouse in the garden.

 When they were big enough, we transplanted the seedlings into beds. Roger covered the soil with leaf mulch to preserve moisture. He also painted gallon milk jugs black and filled them with water to absorb heat during the day.

We also had a very nice little crop of lettuce. We picked lettuce every week and had a garden-fresh salad nearly every day.