70 degrees and thunderstorms in April? Ah well something like this happened last spring. We had a real hard frost on June 6th. Ouch. Still I have started planting some things outside early and under remay. Need to get the chickens penned on thier summer pasture. They are into everything the little stinkers. Worse than a board of directors. Soup keeps humming right along and ingredients are starting to come available again. New tractor is great. The real problem is how do I lose my winter hibernation fat sitting behind the steering wheel? Last winter market on April 17th and if things hold out we will be on the VC green. Gotta go pick up some kids.

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.