Sunday, April 13, 2014

First plantings and Spring weeding. April Week 2

    This week: Morgan started tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, collards, kale, chard and lettuce in the greenhouse. He direct seeded scallions, carrots, beets, lettuce, arugula, Asian greens, spinach and kale in the field. We transplanted onions in the field. We potted up gooseberries, jostaberries, black currants, forstythia bushes, butterfly bushes, lilies, lily of the valley and a few early flowers that will be established in various places around the farm. I weeded the herb garden, strawberries, blueberries, 1/2 the garlic crop and the established flower beds. And we got the mower running so I could start the cycle of mowing for 2 1/2 hours a week. In a few days, the microgreen side of the farm will be in production. As Morgan says, "You know, just doing a bunch of nothing."
Office view. Berries and garlic in the background.
  
Weeding the herb garden.
   
Currently blooming.
 
 Found this little island while weeding.

 
 Morgan's first cast of the year!
Planting berry bushes until their site is ready.
First asparagus is showing up!
 
 This is our guest house swing. This is not our rooster.
 Onions.
 
 Direct seeding in the lower field.
 1/2 the garlic is weeded.
 I found this little nest today. There was ALOT of gray hair in it. Haha.