It's interesting, I haven't seen any over-wintering crops in Sisian- no kale, no cold-tolerant greens for salads, no parsnips or carrots under mulch for winter harvest, certainly no hot beds or cold frames were used to extend the autumn harvest into winter. But in the past week, I've seen a few ambitious Sisiani gardeners who are trying to get a jump-start on spring.
Like this gardener who's used plastic bottles as mini-cloches for their heavily pruned rose bushes.
Or this gardener who's got something that looks like salad greens growing under a sheet of plastic:
This this gardener who created a full blown low tunnel (although there doesn't appear to be anything growing in it yet):
This is actually the third low tunnel I've seen in Sisian gardens this week. I think that they aren't kept over winter, and they aren't used in the fall, but a few people do seem to set them up in the spring. That's interesting to me- I wonder why there's no use of season extenders in autumn?
Regardless, seeing them is very encouraging for me because it means the materials to construct a low tunnel are available locally and probably aren't prohibitively expensive. Hurray!
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