I still haven't checked mine. Thanks for the update. I might try some out over Thanksgiving.

Boy, these snow peas are tough! They're stalled in growth but haven't winced at the freezes. For some reason, the wild rabbits haven't gotten into them.

Yup, they seem to like cold. Mine are growing inside my house by a South window. I eat them raw. If harvested about one inch above the soil, they will grow back.

Nice! They grow back. Love that. Maybe the bunnies have eaten them, I just don't realize it.

There's a reason they call them snow peas. (grin)

I was cleaning out and reorganizing my seed box yesterday and came across the sugar snap pea seeds. I had a strong urge to run out and plant some but I didn't. I might sow some in the greenhouse this weekend. The lettuce in there is growing great.

My favorite lettuce is English Butter Crunch. YUM!

I don't necessarily have a favorite lettuce. I like whatever we're eating at the time, but I love Drunken Woman because of its name and I love Sea of Red because of its unique leaf shape (sort of sword shaped) and very dark color.

Normally, I sow seed of several mesclun mixes so that we have a wide variety of lettuces. I tend to sow far too much, often using it as an early living mulch beneath tomato plants. We have a few dozen chickens, so most days in late winter through late spring, I cut a bunch of fresh lettuce for them because I grow more than we ever could eat. Our chickens are spoiled.

I have been focused on refining my cornbread skills lately. I have been making my own cornmeal from dried dent corn. I finally understand how to make corn sticks.
I was just sitting here reading about the health benefits of corn meal. It feels good to have a full belly AND know it is healthy food.
I had Schwabs Bratwurst, cornbread and pea shoots. yum!

Yummy!

Not only is corn a great food, but corn gluten meal can be used as a pre-emergent herbicide and as a fertilizer. I've used it as both, occasionally, since the 1990s. Some people have had success using corn juice (water with corn meal added to it) as a soak to clear up skin fungal infections, like athlete's foot for example. In this country, we often tend to look for synthetic or chemical solutions to problems when sometimes there is a great natural solution available as well. The Dirt Doctor, J. Howard Garrett, has written and talked about the uses of corn gluten meal and corn meal in landscapes and gardens for many years, and the folks that have the website, The People's Pharmacy, discuss the use of corn meal as an antifungal as well.

The snow peas growing on strings in the greenhouse are just reaching 5' tall and starting to bloom.

sand_mueller,

Good food for mid winter.

Johnny

I'm in Tahlequah and can't remember a longer period without sunshine. correspondingly, I cannot remember ever (over 40 years now) my plants going so long without wanting water; Both inside the house and in greenhouse. Old photo by the way but not too different now. I haven't needed to heat the gh, because night temps are above freezing, so at least am saving firewood.

sand_mueller

I an thinking about building an underground green house. I am convinced they make good sense.

See below...

Here is a link that might be useful: Pit greenhouse

Sand, that greenhouse is SO beautiful!

I share your sentiment for useful underground green houses. Won't happen where we are even with sump pumps. :(