Had a great weekend planting and mulching!

Wow, what a beautiful weekend! Thank goodness it stopped raining for a few days, as we are painfully behind where we would like to be in regards to weed control, planting, and growing veggies.

We were able to plant some seeds, such as peas, beans, beets, and the like. We got 200 pounds of potatoes planted as well. We transplanted some more sweet corn and our first tomatoes outside. And the strawberries are now mulched between the rows. It's amazing what you can get done in a long weekend!

We're still behind, though. We still do not have enough veggies getting ripe each week to fill our subscriptions. We may even have to postpone our start of our veggie subscriptions a week. We usually try to start at least by mid-June, but we're afraid it may be later in June before we start.

So for a few more weeks we'll just take everything to the farmers market in Morgantown. The Cumberland market starts this week, but we don't have enough to go to both.

Pray for more sunshine!

Planting Has Begun!

We got a couple rows of cabbage, cauliflower, and the like planted in the patch along Rt. 219 on Friday evening. If you drive by while we're transplanting, you'll think we're just sitting in the field, but we're actually moving, very slowly! The tractor has a "creeper" gear, so it can go down to as slow as 0.1 miles per hour.

It goes that slow so we can plant behind the tractor. After the wheel pokes a hole and dumps some water in it, we have to shove the root-ball of the plant into the hole, and squeeze some of the mud around the roots to get the plants started nicely. So when you see someone riding behind the tractor, with their feet up, know they are actually planting furiously, not just sitting back having a joy ride!

Keep the warm weather coming!

Oh, these 50 degree days are sure nice! Makes us think of spring, and planting, and GREEN! I think the sunlight provided us all with enough Vitamin D today to boost our spirits for a week or so. T'will be nice when the mud dries up, and we can get in our fields and start planting some seeds and seedlings.

Charles moved the last of the strawberry plants from the greenhouse today, so all of them are in the tunnel. Now we have lots of room in the greenhouse for more plants! Things are growing nicely on these warm sunny days, though we have to be careful to open the tunnels and turn on the fan in the greenhouse because things really heat up in the sun.

So, keep the warm weather coming!