Sure signs that Spring is on it’s way. We are enjoying our days outside with the sunshine and warmer temperatures. An exciting time of planning and seed starting and organizing the rotation and planting schedule in the garden.
We are so pleased with the how well the hoop house is growing. Scott had to double row cover the crops last week with the overnight cold but when he peeked under the cloth it was a comfortable 40 degrees with outside air temperature in the low teens. Relief! All of the leafy greens have doubled in size and I planted a long LONG! section of Swiss chard and fennel this week. We had to squeeze these crops in and harvesting will be tight but we will dance around and not wear our big garden boots and it should all work out and it is so worth it! Nothing better then Spring Greens. We’ve started to harvest Spinach and expect a bounty harvest next week…..Spring is rolling in fast around here.
Other big deals around here…our organic seed potatoes arrived. All 300 pounds of them! We are hoping for 10-13 pounds of harvested potatoes for every 1 pound planted. That’s a lot of potatoes….! We have a pretty good planting routine so it doesn’t take too long to get it all in the ground. Depending on the weather we will start planting mid April.
And miles and miles and miles of peas were planted by hand…….sugar snap, shelling, and snow.
We are getting the garden ready for a bit of tilling and prepped for planting… Loose ends getting cleaned up for mulch laying. It is a dry Spring and we think we will be getting in the garden sooner this year.
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