It continues to be an unseasonably cold spring-actually it’s technically almost summer though it sure doesn’t feel like it here. We’ve delayed the delivery of our first CSA boxes, as everything intended for those boxes is still pretty small, emphasis on the pretty though! Here are some of the crops we’ve planted, looking happy and healthy.
Rainbow chard.
A newly emerging snow pea. Looks like we might have peas for the first delivery.
We’ve already hilled the potatoes 3 times this year. It’s amazing to think those delicate looking leaves can push their way out of all that soil. We planted a lot of fingerling potatoes this year, as they keep well and are easy to cook with.
Planting the eggplant in 50 degree weather was an act of faith. We’re just trying to remember how nicely everything grew last spring, which was almost as cold and way wetter.
We found the 1st ripe strawberries this week. Even with not much sun they are sweet and delicious.
Green oak leaf lettuce, tastes as green as it looks.
We’ve started watering despite the rain, which actually hasn’t amounted to much. We did a good job labeling the drip irrigation last fall and were able to unroll it and hook it up relatively easily. We have over 50,000 row feet of drip irrigation in place. It’s nice not to have to move as much irrigation pipe and we’re watering the plants not the weeds. Here we are watering the newly planted strawberries.
It’s going to clear up soon, right?!
