Germination Nation




I always get anxious this time of year - yes, I know that it always works out - but when it's so cold, and wet...I can be a pessimistic farmer. I counteract that tendency by checking a few seeds for germination after we plant... tonight in between the rain showers I poked around and saw that the peas, radishes, and onion sets are all starting to grow...it'll be nice to see the market gardens filling up with green. We put the russet and red pontiac potatoes in today too. We'll till again (we love our new mini tiller! - so nice not having to rent the big monster one when all we need to do is till up an established bed) once it dries out a bit and then I need to put in carrots, kale, swiss chard, and the first mesclun. We have another 1/2 lb of onion sets that need to fins a home too...

This year we are getting a bagger attachment for our ride on and hope to keep the weeds down by using grass clippings heavily in the paths - we'll see how it goes. We don't use the ride on to mow the whole farm, but we certainly mow enough to collect quite a bit of mulch. Things are getting busy around here...

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Posted: Sun - March 29, 2009 at 09:33 PM        

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