Crop Journal: April 2018
It's finally Spring!
It was a rough start, with the coldest March I can ever remember, but the weather finally broke, giving us the green light to get our transplants into the field at last. It's always a risk trying to get a jump on the growing season. You never can tell what the season will bring. And with unseasonably cold temperatures delaying our first plantings, we were growing concerned for our first run of plants. But with all the organic fertility we have built up in these beds we know soil and sun are all they will need to grow healthy, strong and sweet. We got our window of opportunity, got the field plowed and the beds made, and managed to plant our beets, chard, kale, cabbage, broccoli, onions, kohlrabi and shelling peas. Planting our crops by the hundreds all by hand is quite a feat to pull off in just a few days with a 3 person crew, but we pulled it together and got it done before the soaking rain hit us again.
