Weather & Precipitation Summary: Much warmer than I would expect for this early in April: 80’s most days with nice rain Wednesday afternoon.
We Planted:
1. potatoes: 5 varieties, 2 fingerling, russian banana, red thumb, 3 round desiree mountain rose, and adirondack blue
2. transplanted purple cabbage, swiss chard and kale
3. replanted peas where the germination was low
4. seeded turnips, lettuce, kale, chives, cilantro, and parsnips!
We Tended:
1. row covers to keep out the pests: flea beetles and cabbage moths, in particular
We Harvested:
1. Lots of weeds!
We prepped 14 beds and planted all 14 beds, including 8, one-hundred foot rows of potatoes!
Celebrations & Special Memories:
* Monday night’s first presenters were wonderful! Thank you Steve and Nancy for getting us started!
* Putting up row covers in the wind on Tuesday… watching our row covers fly like kites!
Special THANK YOU to:
* John Wilkerson and Chris Wimmer for preparing our potatoe beds!
* To everyone who worked and played hard on the farm this week!
Namaste.
Vicki