Monthly Archives: February 2021

Return to the Greenhouse a Year After Closure

It was a very welcome sign of the beginning of a return to normalcy: the community propagation program at the greenhouse in the Horticultural Center in West Fairmount Park reopened this month for the first time since it was abruptly shut down at the onset of the pandemic and we had to hastily evacuate our seedlings last March.

I didn’t waste anytime getting restarted. Under the new system designed to space out visits, I booked an “indoor seeding” slot on opening day, Feb. 8, and started planting–spinace, lettuce, arugula, kale, chard, and, of course, microgreens.

Less than two weeks later, I have just harvested my first crop:  sprouting daikon radish, red acre cabbage, and garnet red amaranth microgreens.

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Now the snow cap is receding and I can see that  mustard greens seem to be snapping back, some mizuna, maybe some lettuce, and more. In perhaps several weeks, on a warm early spring day I’ll pull the cover off and we’ll see.


Overwintering garden in early February

A thaw, and signs of life, on February 26