tina, With you short growing season, the best solution is the use of hoop houses as Coleman uses. I hope you got the attachment with the article.
Next best is the rotating of crops and cover crops/green manure with part of land in crops and part in gm/cc each year. Next would be bringing in organic matter and using it as a mulch. Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090222/a503b413/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org