The Greenhouse Is Filling Up

Here are the first round of transplants that are going to get prepped for planting out in the next two weeks. Did you know that plants have to be 'hardened off' before going from greenhouse to garden. This process gradually introduces the plant into natural outdoor growing conditions and toughens it up a bit. We'll begin setting trays outside the greenhouse for a few hours at a time, until they can handle an entire day, at which point they'll be transplanted into the garden.

Green Un-Guns Galore

Well you probably call them onions, but our first born has always called them "un-guns" so that's what we call them. We have about 2,000 to plant and harvest at the green onion stage and here we are planting the first 700. Hard to believe that doesn't even plant the entire 200' row.

MB is a little man of perfection. Things must be planted just so and the rows laid off with the Allis G were not up to his standard. That's where the multipurpose trowel comes in.

3,000 Plants and Counting........

That's right, we've gone a little greenhouse crazy and already have over 3,000 plants in the first 3 weeks! It's nothing less than amazing to watch everything sprout and thrive in there. We're now at the stage where we are transplanting planting from the 105 plug size to 48 plant trays. That's alot of transplanting! At this point we have kohlrabi (white and purple), beets, spinach, bok choi (red and green), mache (corn salad), cauliflower (orange, green, and white), kale (green and purple), lettuces of all kinds, cabbage, collards, leeks, onions, and I'm sure there's something I'm leaving out! If all continues to go well, we should be expecting our first harvests around the third or fourth week of March.

Now, for those of you who have purchased our eggs in the past, our newest hens have started to lay and we have eggs galore! We are gathering about a dozen a day. Even in our off season MB does sell his eggs to help with his feed cost. Just let me know if you'd like to purchase a dozen or two ($4 a dozen) and we can arrange a pickup time.

How many omlettes can one family eat?

 

 

 

"Okay sissy, this is how you very delicately wash the eggs."

This is no optical illusion, pretty sure this is our first double yolk egg.