March 30: strawberry beds looking good and lovage is up.

March 25: Disaster in the greenhouse!

Lost most of the seedlings last night (March 25).  I thought the greenhouse would keep them warm enough.  Weather had been predicted to go down to 33 degrees F.  Perhaps it went lower. Almost all tomatoes looked like this.  We replanted on Monday, March 28.  We had not put the basil out yet, thank goodness, so it is all fine!

March 20: seedlings sprouting and new greenhouse in the making!

On Tuesday Amy and Bill and Heather and I planted 11 1/2 flats of seeds.   The tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, and broccoli are all starting to sprout so I turned their boxes over so they would get light through the lids. A few more days inside and they'll be ready for the greenhouse.    Which is fantastic.  We're building a new greenhouse for the farm.  It's tall enough to stand in the middle. And sooooo sturdy.  Should be finished this week!

March 17: potatoes in, new strawberry bed started

Potatoes Planted

Bill Hopkins and I planted potatoes today and spinach and lettuce.  The spinach and lettuce I planted 2 weeks ago is coming up!   But this new batch might be slower since we're having collier weather again. One pea poked through the soil.  Hopefully more will follow soon. 

strawberries transplanted

Tarragon and chives are six inches tall and tarragon and rhubarb are a couple of inches tall.  Exciting time of year!

asparagus bed

We also started a new strawberry patch in the old blueberry bed.  Bill dug and added manure earlier and also weeded and thinned the original strawberry patch.  Then I weeded the asparagus patch and put in stakes and strings to keep folks from walking on our baby strawberry and potatoes plants.

Early herbs and garlic up

Garlic (planted in October)

Sorrell

March 6: peas and lettuce!

peas lying in furrow before being covered up
(soaked peas overnight first)

After I covered peas, I planted small amounts of
4 kinds of spinach and 5 kinds of lettuce.  Hoping for pea pods and lettuce for May 24 SAGE luncheon.

Weeded rows 7, 9, 11, and 12 (row 1 already weeded) (row 8 already weeded, planted in peas and lettuce) (row 11 good, planted in garlic in Oct.:  most garlic is up with frostbitten tops--must have come up in late fall or earlier this winter....but it will be fine.  I dug down to see if the rows that hadn't come up were still good, and found garlic with roots and just starting to sprout...so patience!)  Amazing to have so much down so early!

Raked burnt stalks off of asparagus bed and 

then added 6 1/2 wheelbarrows full of last year's manure.  Would love for the asparagus to come a little later than usual because of May SAGE luncheon.

March 4, 2016

Washed all the seedling trays today!