We are taking advantage of not having to babysit this week and spending a lot of time at the farm. Mostly weeding, although there is some potting up of plants to sell at market next Saturday. Matt told me we could dig up some comfrey to sell if we wanted since it is spreading quite nicely. I think we will take him up on that. At least I have quite a bit of energy this week so I can get lots done.
Today I finished weeding the garlic. Actually, more between the rows where Matt had raked the straw off the garlic. Lots of wheat growing and some was over a foot high but it pulled out easily and I was able to do two rows before lunch. We were planning on going home at lunchtime but decided to buy lunch and stay longer so I could get more done.
I still have a partial row of onions to weed but David mowed and I had grass clippings so I wanted to get the lettuce mulched right away. Ira had mowed recently but David went over it again and was able to pick up quite a bit of clippings, but not quite enough to finish the row. So, I'll wait a couple of days to finish it up. There was a huge hill of fire ants in the row, going all the way across the row. I knocked them out yesterday and they seemed to be less today but I still avoided the area. I will put heavy coffee grounds on them tomorrow if it doesn't rain.
I had planted 64 paper pots of Jade green beans but I kept them too wet with no drainage so I only got about 30 plants, but they were really nice and I planted them in the garden today. They are ahead of the ones I planted direct but considering I took a chance planting them so early, they are doing pretty good too. We mulched them with grass clippings yesterday.
I don't think a lot of the cauliflower and broccoli will recover from the cold night last week. Some of the broccoli started to button but most all the leaves froze and it looks pathetic. I am thinking I started it inside too early and it was too big when I planted it out.
The asparagus is finally starting to come in enough to have a meal. We picked about a pound today and had roasted asparagus for dinner. It was delicious even though I overcooked it while waiting for the spaghetti to cook.
We are supposed to get rain tomorrow so depending on when, I'll go to the garden early if I can or I'll work in the greenhouse and pot up seedlings and the rest of the tomato plants. I may even sneak over to the farm to dig some comfrey to pot up.
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