The first delivery/pick-up

It's almost dark and Adam is outside planting cucumbers. We planted tomatoes earlier and yesterday I got the last two apple trees (an Aunt Rachel and Bevens' Favorite) in the ground, plus a number of raspberries and blackberries. 

Adam and I are excited about the first pick-up/delivery tomorrow -- what will be a small but rewarding first harvest of lettuces and radishes. The first few weeks will be limited amounts but soon a more diverse harvest of rutabagas, sugar snap and snow peas, arugala and mesclun, chards and kales, more radishes and lettuces will fill the bag! There are plenty of more flower seeds to sow, too,  and we still have tons of veggie seeds and seedlings poke into the ground.

Work on "the farm" is such a delight after some long, hard days of other work and these breezy evenings are a joy. 

It's April, one week from Last Frost...

Which makes us here at UF2200 quite excited. The past week has seen many changes around here.
For one, we have some new members of the farm - Italian honeybees!! (who have their very own blog post coming up soon). We've gotten some much needed organic matter dropped off and late last week put some more lettuce transplants in the ground. We also direct seeded some sugar snap and snow peas, as well as some arugula and spring mesclun salad mix. Yesterday we finished preparing about half of the total beds and got some Brassicaceae planted - mustard, kale, broccoli, collards.
It's chilly today, but tonight might very well be the last frost of spring 2009. Squashes, tomatoes, potatoes, and beans, here we come!