Asparagus are one of the first vegetables we can eat after winter. These are second year crowns that will be planted later in spring. Niseko Green Farm will be harvesting their first asupara soon; come and get some!

The brassica genus contains lots of very populair vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, turnips, all those Chinese greens and mustards and rape seed for oil. All very different, but when they mature and flower to produce seed, the flowers all look the same.

I always broadcast some seeds in the green house late fall or early spring for some early spring greens. Many of the Brassica's (cabbage family) do well. This is Tatsoi.

In the poly tunnel it is about 5C warmer than in the green house and about 20-25C warmer than outside. At night that is a lot less but still warmer than the snowy outdoors.

Still snow and freezing outside. Under these poly tunnels seeds are started and it get nice and warm. Without much sun it warms up easily to 30C.

The first true leaves are showing.

Slowly but surely all the seeds are germinating and the new plants are growing.

Creating summer under grow lights ,makes the peppers and eggplant seedlings grow fast.

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