The second automatic vent I ordered came a couple of weeks ago. It has been so wet and cold since then I didn’t get it installed. I noticed this morning that the other lid with the autovent already installed was open a few inches so I decided to take advantage of today and get the other one installed. It went on without a hitch.

The cold frame still had some lettuce & radishes that I had planted last fall. The radishes were history. The lettuce looked good but a taste test told me it was too bitter to fool with. Perhaps it was planted too early last fall. We had a very warm winter and it may have gotton too mature before slowing down for the winter. I pulled what was in there and reseeded with lettuce, radishes and spinach. I tried to rotate but its hard when you are dealing with a little less than 32 ft sq.

I did notice that some of the flats I had seeded late this winter have sprouted. Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago I forgot to lock down the lid without the auto-opener and a wind blew it open. Some of the tags I had on the flats identifying what was what blew off. Now its seedling surprise with some of them. I’m sure I’ll be able to figure them out once they get some size on them.

Posted by kerry Reblogged by Old Roses to coldframe on 2006-03-19, 11:00:09

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