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With the onset of winter weather we are finding out who the die hard gardeners are at our community garden. Some of the beds are well cared for in spite of the cold weather and are growing a nice winter vegetable crop. Others have frost burnt eggplant and tomato plants with no sign of tending since the weather got cold. I suspect we'll have a rule for next fall to ask gardeners to either plant a winter crop (and tend it) or plant a cover crop. My aunt in Germany in required to clean up her garden at the end of fall and "put it to bed" for the winter or risk losing her allotment.
For those of you that garden in a community garden, do you garden through the winter? If you live in an area under snow in the winter, how do you put the group garden to bed?
I've attached a photo of the cabbage patch in my garden bed. This was taken on Dec 23rd. You can see the frost burnt eggplant and tomato plants in the background. The SF Bay area is generally considered a "Mediterranean" climate. We've had unusually high temperatures last summer and unusually cold temperatures this winter. We don't normally have a week of temperatures in the low 20s F but did so last week.
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