Today I slept in. Yep, that's right, I slept until 9:30 in the morning. Got up, took a shower, took the plastic off the plants (frost warning again last night) and went to town to get my hair done. It is a lot shorter than it has been in years but I love it. In fact, I may go a bit shorter on my next visit. What about going back to blonde? Could be.
Anyway, the farm beat Mother Nature again last night. All plants made it through the frost warning without injury. We covered the early garden with plastic and threw sheets over all the rest. When I uncovered them this morning, I was happily releived. I even saw the okra coming up. Remember the okra, farmer Robert drove over it with the tractor. But it has that great survival spirit and is coming up through the tire marks.
In case I forgot to tell you, the sweet corn is up. That is the first planting, we will plant every couple of weeks for a month or so. We used our new to us 4 row planter this time. The first time, we forgot to open all the knobs and only planted 1 row of the 4, but we figured it out and have been planting a regular 4 rows like we were suppose too. It is way cool.
Blueberries are doing well. Third year for some. Deer likes them, did a lot of pruning to these bushes but as long as they leave some we'll be OK.
Out to recover the plants. I like the idea of a mini greenhouse on them while it is cool. Maybe it will hasten bloom and fruiting. Lessons to be learned.
See ya on the farm
Charlotte
1 comment:
so glad you stopped by the other day - read today's post - loved my visit to the farm - off to a show today in Bethesda MD - will read about more farm happenings when I return. Grit - that is the only way I survive - glad you liked that post
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