Monday, March 23, 2009

You may be asking, "What's that wacky farm up to?"

Well, thanks for your curiosity! As it so happens, we started most of our seeds over a month ago, and of those we've put lettuce, turnips, spinach and radishes in the ground in a little bed towards the back of our lot.
But we've still got a lot (thousands!) of seedlings to transplant, potatoes on the way, squashes, cucumbers and melons that i just planted a few days ago starting to peak through the surface of their seedling trays, and i've got some wonderful tomatoes picked out from a friend of mine in Raleigh who we'll be getting heirloom seedlings from.
We started in earnest on tilling yesterday to get through some of the more compacted areas of the yard, and will continue the rest of the week until it's done - hopefully by Wednesday.
At that point we'll bring in some good soil to get the upper, less nutrient rich part of the lot going strong and follow that with some leaf mulch just before transplanting.
We staked out the layout last week and even got a few trees planted yesterday.
We intended on starting to till more than a week ago, but those 5 days of rain we got made the soil far to soggy to work and so until yesterday we'd been playing the waiting game.
Hope you're all enjoying this wonderful - and finally spring-like - weather we've been having!
Please don't hesitate to ask any questions or voice any concerns - this is a learning experience for us all!

PS - The first strawberry bloom of the season just came out today!!!

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