Today we will bring all the tomato and pepper plants from my house (The Hugging House) to the greenhouse. My house would still be warmer but with trees starting to leaf out it will be too shady and plants would get leggy long.
Onions and celeriac already reside in the greenhouse on newly built shelfs and have been warmed on those cold nights with the newly built chimney and attached stove. They will now go to the cold frame, set up yesterday, to learn to be outside.
This spring is comming late, at least it stopped snowing. Steve wants us to apply for status of rain forest. For that it has to rain a certain number of days and he thinks we got them. On cold or rainy days we work on the barn, building more shelf, cleaning the cooler, fixing garden carts..., but we really want to be outside, planting and getting ground ready for the massive transplanting to come.
We, that is Phil, our new Birdsfooter, who is 20 and came the begin of April to explore living in community and farming, Katie who is still in nursing school, but ready to stretch after class, Kathleen, Katie's friend, who came last fall and helped harvesting roots last fall and me.
We managed to get some ground ready, degrassed, raked and seeded or planted. So far we got peas, spinach, cilantro, parsnips, carrots, beets, lettuce and mixed greens in. It takes a day of no rain to dry up enough to to use the walk behind tractor "Blaubaer" (blue baer)and a day to work and plant the beds. Two days ago we just got done seeding the carrots and beets, when it started raining again. And I think that was it for dry weather (two days in a row) this week.
We also have Potsdam student Brandi working with us two days a week. On rainy days she is collecting new recepiesand nutritiunal information and games for the upcoming news letters. Also Alyssa and Zac, Potsdam students come two days a week to learn and help at the farm and community.
This is the news for now. It is nice to hear from you.
Dulli