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| Upper annual field. Garlic for days. |
It has been a rainy week. We worked outside during the breaks in the rain showers and we marked a lot of indoor barn and farm projects off a never ending list. A few projects this week: expanded work station in the barn, organized the barn, organized the micro building, worked on the orchard, started more seedlings, mended row cover, finalized the big flower seeding plans, started building some of the new gardens, covered the strawberries, weeded the asparagus, mowed & weed wacked the entire property, and Morgan cultivated and tilled the new field. We also started the first microgreens of the season as we prepare for our first market in May. I'm probably forgetting something...
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| First asparagus harvest for the season. And ever. |
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| Really wide row cover is expensive. So I sewed 2 10 ft x 115 ft pieces together to cover the lower strawberry patch. |
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| Once a seamstress. Always a seamstress. I've come a long way from sewing my prom dresses in high school :) |
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| Turning the compost pile. |
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| L-R: The new 2015 bin. The middle bin will be ready next year. The third pile on the right is now the finished compost and ready to use. |
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| Currently blooming: blueberries and strawberries |
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| Seed potatoes getting ready for planting |
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| Covered all 715 ft of the strawberries. About 358 plants. |
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| We cover the strawberries after the flowers have been pollinated and begin to fruit. They will be covered for the rest of their growing cycle to protect them from birds and insects. It also protects flowers from a late frost (which would kill all possible fruit). |
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| Then we uncover and recover them everyday when we start picking the strawberries in a few weeks. |
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| Upper property view. |
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| Lower strawberry patch. About 225/ 358 plants. |
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| Farm yoga. Justin putting in the hoops to support the row cover. |
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| The giant row cover I sewed for the bottom patch. (shown folded in half) |
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| Morgan cultivating the new field. We disked and plowed this new field in the fall and after this pass, we will till each row as needed. |
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| Happy farmer. | |
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| Currently blooming: creeping phlox |
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| Lupine showed back up |
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| Salvia |
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| Studio garden looking good |
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| My moon garden is ALL white flowers. I can't wait for this one to bloom for the first time this season. |
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| Catmint |
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| Siberian wallflower |
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| The last of the grape hyacinths |
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| Alliums coming soon |
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| And always...weeds :) |
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| New garden being expanded on the right (mapped out with tobacco sticks). The left side will be a new path to the barn. |
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| Morgan tilled over this in the new field....And left it on the porch for me to find. |
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| There is always time to slow down and help the little guys across the road. |
