Memorial Day Weekend - Update

Blog – 26 May 2011

Hi everyone, there hasn’t been much to report due to our cold and rainy month of May.

 Our planting schedule has suffered and we are about 8 days behind.  We plan to catch up over the next week or two.

 After 17 days of gray, foggy, rainy, drizzly days, it was great to get out to the field and work the soil yesterday. 

 We created 14 new beds for transplanting and direct seeding.  It’s still too cool at night to put out the tomatoes, peppers and tomatillos.

 The broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts are doing well.  Celery, onions and leeks are surviving all the water.  Carrots are sprouting, as well as beets and radishes.

 Its Sunday now, and I may have spoken too soon about the weather.  We have had incredible fog every day until the early afternoon.

 We have finished seeding and transplanting the first half acre.  Preparations of the next half are underway.  The soil has been turned; we are picking out the rocks – softball size up to 3 feet around (anything smaller we don’t consider rocks anymore).  We have removed almost 2 dump truck loads from the first half acre and are well under way to do the same in this plot.

 The tomato plants are now out of the greenhouse and are hardening off, awaiting to be transplanted this week.  Peppers are soon to follow. 

 I will work at getting better about updating you all on a more timely fashion.

 Earl