Succulent Greens

The greens in my coldframe are fat and sassy as winter descends upon us.  Greens like cool weather, but prefer not to be frozen too much.  A coldframe creates conditions that are just right.  I'm amazed -- but not at all surprised -- that so few Americans have coldframes.  There's no comparison between freshly-picked, organically-grown greens, and greens that were picked in some huge California field a week or two ago.  But humans are a conservative lot, and it's very hard to get them to change their behavior.

Here's my greenhouse.  Wearing my rose-colored glasses, I can confidently predict that we'll have more greens than we can possibly use for salads, smoothies, omelettes, etc.  But this is still November, and I'm expecting a major outbreak of aphids by January.  The first rule of homesteading:  "there's always something."