March is coming to a close. Allot of rain on tap the next 24 hours or so. Hmmm. Need to go order up my tractor today. Flats need to be seeded. Soup? Not sure what's up there, need to get some packaged and in the freezer. Make another 10 gallons or so. Saying 70 degrees this weekend. That should get the asparagus moving. Need to get the temporary cold frames set up. Construction starts this morning. We get to spend lot's of money to have another chimney put in. I'll have to tell you sometime about shyster insurance salesman. New peeps are ready to go out on pasture.

Oh yeah it's Monday morning....ugh. Ah well gotta go do something......

Good Morning,

A frosty 11 degrees here this morning. I am off to check the greenhouses shortly. Curious to see how everything survives and what the temps are in there. Soil temp has been sitting at 70 during the day and holding moisture well. Thermal mass in the raised beds should be good making a decent heat sink. A fair amount of over wintered Sorrel, chard, and spinach. A bit of kale also. It seems to have survived well with a remay blanket under snow. Should be ready to harvest around mid-april. Early March heat has caused a lot of early bolting in over wintered japanese brassicas. New peeps are fully feathered out and looking good at 2 months. Time to finish the chicken coop and get the big girls out on pasture for the summer. I want to seed the area with clover first though.

So much for summer...fall has managed to come early this year...just joking. Well things keep moving along, even me. Today is a thinking day. A bit of snow flying around with really cold temps coming for this Friday. It will be interesting to see what happens with the greenhouses since all of the plants have gone into spring mode and 6 degrees forecasted for Friday night. Only 2 winter markets left for April then the summer market gets started on May 1st. We are due for a nice summer. Peeps are flying all over the place need to get the new housing built for them and finish a few greenhouse projects up. Seeding stuff like crazy and trying to get ahead with the soup making. Lot's of stuff to do with one week left in March. April will be pretty crazy. Well off to do some book keeping.

Good Morning!!! Well early "summer" this year is driving me crazy. I have had to come out of my winter lethargy with force instead of easing into the season. Good? Bad? I really have not decided yet. I am really worried that the "hot" weather of the last 2 weeks is now going back to normal cold for the rest of the month and is going to cause problems in the greenhouses. Seems spinach, swiss chard, and sorrel have survived quite well under some remay out in the fields. It will be interesting to see how it grows out. Soup business is going well and picking up alot of new accounts for early spinach and salad. Kate my new farm manager is doing a great job while being thrown into things. The extra help she provides is greatly needed and appreciated. The other Kate (Kate 2) is back up once a week and really helping get the harvesting done. Soup is on the burner for market and man am I getting sick of bagging salad......Ah well. So hope to see all of you at market today, sugar on snow, I have veggie chili and a real nice potato,bean, ham soup. Peeps are doing well and almost ready to move outside. Need to get coops built and other construction projects on the move. bye.

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Here you go. Great podcast about winter growing.

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Whew! two posts in one day.....well the weather is great! Now to get something done and some salad sold. CSA is doing well and according to my record keeping I have just 4 shares left. Placed a huge seed order today for the season. Next thing to do is pick up a few tools and get the irrigation stuff ordered. I must seed tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant this week. It's time....... Temporary greenhouses will be the big push/project this spring. I am going to put one up over the front asparagus, which needs some very tedious and serious weeding done to it. I mulched and weeded last year but.....putting the chickens in there does the best job. So the snow is melting the peeps are feathering out, the crew is coming together for the season. I may even have some soup assistance. What is it Hope springs eternal or is eternal springs hope or hope is eternal spring? bye.......

Hey Gang,

What a difference a week in California makes. What they call a farmer's market and organic out there in Orange County is very interesting to say the least. Survived the Tsunami warning, ate alot of tex-mex and the farm managed to survive without me. Thanks to Kate and my neighbors for making it possible. Especially with the 2 feet of wet heavy snow. Now it's back and working double time. The greenhouses are exploding with greens and spinach. Great weather and everything is moving right along.