March Challange

I seem to remember a book I have that describes building an outdoor cold weather spring glass frame , ( but not in January winters in Ontario. LOL )
it was low to the ground , called maybe a framed ? cloche ? , out of old wooden windows. They put the top
window on with hinges and could open it and prop in a piece of wood when weather was good
and shut it when cooler and at night . He was growing stuff like cabbage in there . I understand they
were doing this alot in England

You can make a very nice cabbage salad with cut up apples , shredded cabbage and mayonnaise and pepper.
Has alot of CRUNCH , and is satisfying for winter salad.

As for apples, I guess that goes back to needing a root cellar for apples which I don't a root cellar 🙁

I also seem to remember somewhere hearing that you need to keep some things in different cellars
or cold rooms, with perhaps different temperatures and different humidty ?

day 23, I am still on a juice fast, hubby had minestrone soup and rice and banana in his lunch. I really want a cold frame!!!

Farmgirl I had to go get greens too for salad/green juice-I have an echocardiogram this morning (find out what my heart issues amount to)
I have a cold so I had chicken noodle soup for supper, Hubby had soup and garlic/cheese bread

Hi Lgsbrooks, Let us know how it goes, even in just a general way 🙂 Thinking of you, hoping for the best and I hear you, I am looking forward to being able to start juicing again as well, it makes such a different in the energy boost, I made wedding soup yesterday for hubby, takes for ever to make those tiny meat balls but it turned out good.

I have a cold frame, for all the good its doing me this spring, nothing is growing, and yes, I have removed the snow.. its just in hold pattern, normally by now some of the overwintered greens would be taking off.. nope..

Thanks! Day 26: Again with the green juices and chicken soup today. Ok...test results in, x-ray looked like enlarged heart but echocardiogram shows it is normal!!!! Fantastic!

DAY 27:stil sick,
Morning juice: cranberry water
Breakfast: 2 eggs, 1 toast, apple juice
Lunch:green juice
supper:cranberry water, homemade canned turkey noodle soup, apple juice
evening: green juice

eating plan has been the same...still have a cold

lgsbrooks, Hope you feel better.

Goldie, If you can, nuts.com sample sizes and North Bay have a fair bit of small-size air dried and freeze-dried products http://www.northbaytrading.com/air-dried-carrots so you can see what you like before you buy big ones. Sometimes with the nuts.com, there are mixes you can order, and if you can ID what everything is, that helps. To do it without shipping, check out whole foods type grocers or the tots and health food aisles at supermarkets/superplex stores (Wal-Mart).
Did you know...A fair number of the dried, shredded carrot bits that show up in our soup mixes are a refuse product from making the fake baby carrots at the grocery? I didn't. It explains why they shred theirs.

I shred or julienne mine most of the time I'm dehydrating because it takes a 30-second blanch that way and they dry much, much faster than either chunks or slices (and then rehydrate much faster). If you try to do carrot sticks, be aware they will not rehydrate to full crunchiness. Mine looked like scary mummy carrots, dark the way cauliflower and apples get crazy dark.

So, number one thing about eating out of my pantry and fridge is that I don;t have a cold frame, hoop house or greenhouse, my seed starts oust my spinach and mache, and I end up crunchy leaf deficient and drooling at salad commercials.
Also, I use a lot of fresh herbs, and I cut out things I can't grow sustainably without outside assistance here and then dehydrate or pressure can for storage (besides tea and coffee). In July, nasturtiums would be available. In March? Not so much. Sooooo not happy without black peppery flavor in my spuds.
BTW, I took weekends off because Mr.P is Mr. Pets, not so much Mr. Prep, and there is no way I'm not having pizza or cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato when one is coming in the house anyway. Mr. P was lovely enough to let me steal his yucky production tomatoes and lettuce off his burger.

I'm better now but the month is over and I look forward to not being sick the next time

I have never had such a hard time doing this challenge, need to do tweeks on a few things for sure..

We should probably do this challenge again in the fall after harvest ?

And we should also do one in the summer without electricity for 36 hours.
To weed out missing items and get used to cooking on our backup stuff.

Sure, maybe do one in the fall, and shorter other ones.. I'm open and game..