We had 3 days of rain this week. Mother Nature is undecided today, fickle ole woman that she is, whether we have had enough or not. Anyway, it was much needed. I have the early garden in at least 1 month earlier than usual. The tomatoes are doing fabulous. In the raised beds, I have 30 celebrity tomatoes and 30 juliet tomatoes. I know it doesn't sound like much, but remember it is the EARLY garden. I also have 74 eggplant, 56 green peppers, about 100 leeks, a bed of beets, 4 long rows of okra, 6 looonnng rows of green beans and sweet corn. I'll try to get pictures, but remember from earlier posts, lost my camera. Haven't been able to find it yet.
The next phase of the garden will be going in within the next 2 weeks. The greenhouse is holding the plants getting ready for this planting. The plants will be hardened off beginning the middle of the week and in the ground soon after. For the final phase of the planting, around the end of May, the seedlings are just emerging their heads from the soil in the seedling room. They will be ready for their first transplanting in about 2 weeks. Right on scedule.
I have decided to diversify yet again. I have a beautiful seedling room and great greenhouses so why not try my hand at perennials. Flowers that come up year after year. They are so expensive at the stores, and look like fertilizer in it's raw form (crap) so it was worth a try. They are looking fabulous. The only thing with these is they must be held over a year so they can be sold with some size on them. Most perennial don't bloom the first year and buyers want the bloom. Heck, so do I. But with unheated greenhouses and barns, it shouldn't be any trouble, right, RIGHT.. Update as possible.
Back to work, I must go. Finally getting over a chest cold that has slowed me down. Back to female farming with a passion. Remember, we will be at the Wabash Valley Herb Faire, in Terre Haute,Indiana the Sat before Mother's Day. Hope to see you there, in the meantime....
See ya on the farm
Charlotte
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