Facebook updates

So, I’m using facebook for doing most quick updates and photos. We have more people checking that than the blog and it seems quicker so if you you want to keep up on your day to day stuff go there. I’ll be writing longer notes on this blog come winter time when I have time for that kinda thing. Plus when the season is over I’ll be reflecting more on the season and can write…

Quick quote

From Wendell Berry

“We can no longer pretend that agriculture is a sort of economic machine with interchangeable parts, the same everywhere, determined by “market forces” and independent of everything else. We are not farming in a specialist capsule or a professionalist department; we are farming in the world, in a webwork of dependences and influences probably more intricate than we will ever understand. It has become clear, in short, that we have been running our fundamental economic enterprise by the wrong rules. We were wrong to assume that agriculture could be adequately defined by reductionist science and determinist economics. “

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/160/

Tomatoes!

I think of I’ll the greenhouse ‘stuff’ we’ve done this year I’m most pleased with how the tomatoes have done. Since we don’t heat the greenhouse we just use a small heat mat to germinate seeds and use a couple of layers of poly to insulate our cold sensitive plants. I wasn’t sure how warm weather plants would do on cold spring nights so …I’ve been really excited with the how the toms are doing. We planted these in early april which is much later than most people and the results have been great! Not having to fight the low light and cold months of feb and march make for a healthy, stocky plant that is already acclimated to semi-cold nights and is not root bound. Since the roots aren’t circling the pot these plants are growing like weeds right now and should continue to grow quickly once we get them transplanted.

Transplanting!

Yesterday we were able to get a bed of veggies in the ground finally! I’ll be putting up pictures soon.

Wet Wet Weather

We have a second succession of seedlings germinating and growing! Unfortunately the weather has been so incredibly wet that we won’t be putting anything in the ground any time soon. We were hoping to get a round of direct seeding, tilling, and transplanting done this month but that won’t be happening. Maybe a break in the weather this week….

Until then we are doing some inside projects. We are building harvest crates, a drip tape winder, bed markers, and are continuing to dial in our greenhouse organization.

Greenhouse done and seedlings started

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Almost done!

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