Garden Progress
Been busy with the garden the last week or so. This has a been a strange spring and I’m way behind where I’d like to be this time of year. It will get down bellow freezing tonight, so the tomatoes and peppers will have to wait a few days before I dare put them out. The boys got there potatoes planted on Monday. Thats their big project, John and Noah take the responsibility of being “in charge” of the potatoes crop very seriously. If you ever get the chance to talk potatoes with them they will talk your ear off. All of the broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage transplants are in the ground. If memory serves me right we put over 70 of them in. The spinich and chard is looking good and we have some good lettuce (seeded and transplanted). Beets and carrots are in and so are about half the onions. Peas are up and reaching for the sky. We’ve got about 70 tomatoes to put in this week and the peppers. I forgot that the garlic rotation was missing last year and now this year my poor planning has me scrambling for space to get everthing else in. I’m tilling up a fourth plot now so i can fit in all the other stuff one needs to make it through a winter. When we get done I’ve got treat to celebrate with. This past Lord’s Day a friend gave my a bottle (750ml-corked-cellared a year) of one of my favorite ales. If you are ever in NY you have to go visit Brewery Ommegang These folks produce the finest Belgian-style ales you have ever tasted. I look forward to pulling the cork and sitting back looking over my planted crop with thankfulness to Almighty God. The pastures are starting to come back now after the rain. The girls have done a good job of staying ahead of it this year. I love this time of year, cows coming in off pasture at milking time and then going right back out the door to harvest their own food. A true creation of wealth, cows grazing free grass and producing milk that did not exist before.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Hi Scott,
Getting the garden in has been a might late this year. The weather has been below normal here in Idaho too. Some of the seeds were slow to germinate but everything is now coming up. Janis related everything we’ve planted in her last post (What’s Going on Around Here?). She and the boys did save much time and money by starting a lot of plants in the greenhouse which we hope will keep us on track this year. We sure enjoy being in the warm temps of the greenhouse when it’s freezing outside! Although much of the preparation and planting has been done with heavy coats on I’m sure we’ll soon be dripping sweat as we attack the weeds with hoe in hand. Some of the garden plants I see on other agrarian blogs from warmer climates have astounded me with their size and can make me green with envy. Our time’s a comin!
May the Lord give the increase!
Blessings,
Allen