Sprung!



Newly mulched potato beds - Yukon Golds, Pontiac, and a few blues.
Every April I get discouraged looking out at the fields, losing hope that any of the seeds will germinate at all - but every year the gardens prove me wrong.

Our first farmer's market was a great success thanks to all of our great customers - we had a wonderful time and it feels great to be back in the swing of things. We brought eggs, broccoli rabe, mesclun with chive blossoms, collards, scallions and radishes this past week, and will probably have the same variety this coming week. Peas are on their way and the carrots are starting to do their thing. I may pack arugala in separate bags - we'll see how it looks on Friday. Kale, beets, cilantro, and swiss chard are all on deck.

The chicks are growing like weeds and we split them up a few days ago - half stayed in the stock tank and half went into the rabbit hutch. The gardens are shaping up - I'm really trying to stay on top of the weeding, mulching, and mowing as much as possible this year, and I think it's paying off. The new garden is a problem, as the newly tilled areas always are, but I bought some more landscape fabric and we'll run that down this weekend between the hills of squash, tomatoes, and beans in that area. I'm glad to spend 50 dollars on that if it means that we can have a fighting chance against the sod.

A few more pictures....

Thinned beets (we add the colorful baby leaves to our salad mixes)


A bed of cabbage - we're trying this one on landscape fabric, but I think the floating row covers will win out once the bugs show up. Row covers plus landscape fabric, we quickly learned this spring, = fried cabbage.


The peas (snow and shell) are clambering up their supports - we used a interwoven hedge of twigs this year since the dead magnolias provided us tons of supple branches.

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Posted: Tue - May 22, 2007 at 10:46 PM        

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