Juicing Greens from our greenhouse is so exciting! Our Asian greens were planted in the greenhouse last month and today they are going in the juicer. There is nothing better to juice than fresh, lovely produce like this! We could let them go longer but Dave needs the room for his baby pepper seedlings in that bed.

We are winter gardening in the greenhouse. These asian greens were the very first attempt at greenhouse winter gardening. We count them a huge success! Delicious green juice is a favorite after dinner drink around here. That’s what we made with these greens!

The great thing about cool weather short crops like leafy greens; is they can be planted when we pull out the pepper and tomato plants in the late fall. These greens will grow in a fairly cool greenhouse. so even in January we can plant and get growing crops with no heat! We do seal up the greenhouse in winter to retain what heat we can. This year it worked well. The leafy crops grew and we get green juice, fresh from the garden, in March! Some other successful cool weather greens are Arugula, kale and spinach.