The Coldest Night of Your Life

With temperatures forecast around -8 to -4 degrees F tonight for Central Maryland, this could be the coldest night of your life if you were born and live here.  Given the weather, it is unlikely that we'll be actually planting anything outdoors anytime soon, so we're enjoying our trays of seedlings in a variety of creative new ways.  I cannot recall a past growing season when we ate so many of our tiny plants without planting them.  Last night we brought an entire tray of baby Bok Choi to share at a family dinner.  For lunch I made a ham sandwich with Arugula sprouts.  But the best so far was Chinese egg fried-rice with Tong Ho micro-greens for breakfast.  Time to grab a blanket, make a spot in front of the wood stove, and plant more seedlings!

 Left, baby lettuce; right, even the chickens

are rebelling against the cold weather.