Go Time!

After a wetter and colder than usual April, things are finally drying out and warming up.  The crops are actually beginning to grow without rowcover!  We’ve been planting for the last month or more, but the ground prep has been mediocre and intermittent and the weather less than ideal, and as a result there’s been some spotty germination and even a bit of transplant mortality.

Now that it’s drying up, we’re working fast to get a whole lot done.  My goal each year is to get all of the big planting projects (and as much weeding as possible) done by the time the CSA begins.  That’s now just three weeks away!  So… we’ve planted out the first round of flowers, gotten our potato patch in, planted out the first rounds of summer squash, cucumbers, & snap beans, and are mostly on top of the weeding.  Now we need to finish turning around the coldframes to get our tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants in, get one more weeding of the strawberry patch done, plant out the onions, sow the winter squash, and keep up with the weekly plantings.  The ground for all this is nearly ready… already manured & amended, just awaiting final tillage.  It’s Go Time!