after a week below 30 degrees and no water

The temperature has not risen above 30 degrees F in more than 7 days. The water has been turned off.

Surprisingly, some things have progressed nicely: beans, chives, lettuce, baby leaf spinach, cilantro, italian parsley and peppers.

Some things are struggling: tomatoes, corn and squash.

Almost all the basil bit the dust.

22 degrees in the greenhouse today

Its cold outside and just as cold, (if not slightly colder due to wind shear), inside since someone went by and opened the vents on the side of the greenhouse - thus allowing the frigid cold air to flow easily from the giant tears at the top through the open ends.

The majority of the basil suffered the most. Corn, tomatoes, beans, chives, parsley, lettuce, cilantro, squash, peppers, and spinach are all doing pretty well and after a quick taste test are outstanding!!!

The pictures with my finger in them, illustrating size were taken on December 9th - before the norther blew in. The pictures with no finger were taken today. I did not know these summer crops would survive in this type of weather.

The ONLY Greenhouse on Long Island Growing Without Heat!

The main hole in the center of the greenhouse is big enough to fit a SubZero refrigerator through. It has been in the low 30’s at night and we have had some severe winds during the day.
All the squash plants in the greenhouse were started at the same time with the same seeds.
A squash with Jenifer’s Landscape Vitamins in finished compost on the left versus a squash in Fafard mix with chemicals, (shown right), that now gets a healthy double dose of Vitamins to see if we can get it to start growing healthy too…

These results are similar to all the plant groupings: tomato, beans, pepper, basil, spinach, corn, lettuce, cilantro

We started eating the salad greens on Thanksgiving and it was a ton of fun to eat nutritous food that had been seeds just 7 short weeks ago.

In fact, all the plant groups are showing similar results.