May

warm weather at last!

April 2

aaaaa

April

Seedlings growing, soil warming...

 Seedlings in the new greenhouse at the farm. 

 Asparagus up!

 Tiny herb grdens planted by my folkart class.  With tiny pottery signs, pottery flowers, stick fairies, and herbs.

Gardening students each planted two trays of tomato, pepper, parsley, and basil seeds.

Onions, radishes, peas,lettuce, and potatoes

March 29: Potatoes planted and sorrel up in herb garden!

78 degrees in the garden this afternoon!  Worked comfortably  in shorts and sleeveless top until sun was about the go down even though it was very windy.   Then the temperature dropped 30 degrees in what seemed like 5 minutes!    The afternoon had begun with disaster in the new farm greenhouse, which is so wonderfully lightweight that it blew sideways and knocked 2 of the seedling trays upside down on the ground.   The cabbage seedlings were the largest and Amy transplanted those back into their trays pretty successfully.  The tiny lettuce and tomato seedlings were much harder to find but we probably rescued about half of them.  Chris cam and pounded t-posts by each corner and secured the greenhouse so it won't blow away again!

Lots of onions and a few radishes planted in beds 8 and 9!

Ana Hlavatovich volunteered to help and we planted the rest of the pea and lettuce and spinach patch in bed 6.  The little pea plants in the picture are the ones planted Feb. 20!

March 21: SAGE seedlings

 Several trays of a variety of tomato seedlings--to plant at the farm, and to sell at the plant sale in May.  Bill and Amy also planted peppers, nasturtiums, marigolds, and parsley, which haven't germinated yet.

Cabbage getting leggy....need to get these out to the new greenhouse soon! 

 This is the second planting of lettuce.  The first planting was eaten by mice in the people barn!  Many traps now set and lettuce replanted!  The farm is hoping to grow enough lettuce, by planting every 2 weeks, to supply all the lettuce for camp this summer. 

Basil...everybody's favorite!

March 21: Spinach, Garlic, and Chives!

This spinach spent the winter under the greenhouse in the coldframe...a double layer of protection.  Even though the leaves died down in the cold December temperatures, the roots survived and sprouted new leaves!  And one of the lettuce plants (red leaves, upper corner). 

Garlic and Chives up too.   Garlic was planted in October.  Chives are perennial.

Bill Hopkins dug composted manure into several of the beds and we moved the greenhouse off the coldframe so we will be able to open the coldframe up on warm days.  A white frost blanket is covering the pea seedlings because some very cold temperatures are expected mid week, and then some really warm temperatures at the end of the week!

March 19: a new bed for the rhubarb!

Lots of seeds started this month, and today moved rhubarb from herb garden to behind the weed bin where the comfrey used to be.