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Pictured: @clovebrookfarm, home of Christopher Spitzmiller and Anthony Bellomo in Millbrook, NY.
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“We’re in the process of moving plants out to our cold frames (the dark blue-green boxes, swipe right). The cold frame protects them from the cold at night. When the days are nice, we slowly give them more and more sun to ‘harden’ them off before being planted out.”
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“We have started from seed most of the vegetables for our garden: countless varieties of tomatoes, shallots, lettuce, kale, and beans, plus we direct sowed the snap peas. Lots of flower starts. We planted several kinds of amaranth, castor beans, zinnia, and cosmos, and have started cuttings of Salvia ‘Amistad’. Our cannas overwintered beautifully.”
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“The plastic covers a 8 x 50-foot bed of dahlias. It seems to have worked great in this temperate winter. As several friends have pointed out, if it doesn’t work this winter, it never will. Some of the dahlias have already sprouted and the ones that haven’t are firm in the ground. On warm and sunny days, I open up the ends to let it air out. There are also a ton of poppies and a few lupines that will produce an early bloom. I’ll slowly take the top off, as May 15 is our last frost date. Can’t come soon enough!”
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