Hooping it up

It's been crazy warm lately (just like the summer was), but it's finally going to act like winter starting tomorrow. I gave the critters in the teeny-tiny hoop house a good soaking, and finally got around to trimming up the salvaged coroplast on the ends, zip-tying it on, and cutting doors so I can water it easily. And take pictures. Guess I should have taken a side-view so you can see the construction, but it's two pieces of conduit bent into house shapes (so not exactly just "hoops") and threaded through a cedar 1x3 ridgepole.

There's a half-dozen broccoli plants, which are finally thinking about broccing. (That's the verb for what they do, right?)

The half-dozen cabbages are slowly heading up. They've done a lot of their growing in this warm spell, so they'll probably slow down a little now. Or not, since the better-sealed hoop house will probably keep them a bit warmer.

I need to cover a second bed, since I planted some chard hoping it would get started on sprouting during the warm spell. Chard sprouts really slowly, and grows slowly when it's cold, so it may not have been worth it, but when the temps are hanging around in the 60's that long, you just gotta plant something.

Some of the hardneck garlic (in a raised but not covered bed) also finally sprouted, so I'm a little relieved there. It didn't show anything when I planted it this fall, so I didn't know if it actually did put down roots or just rotted in the ground. I feel better seeing some of it now, so hopefully I'll have a batch of garlic scapes this spring.