Back to Planting!

April 7^th

Woke up to another beautiful sunrise out my window; you just have to be thankful that you get to see a sunrise!   I walked into the first hoop house to a bunch of green…the radishes, swiss chard, sugar beans, pak choi, were all poking through. 

Today we planted 4 different kinds of lettuce, Oak Leaf, Lalla Rosa, Ruby Red, and a Mesclun mix.  We will be planting a bunch more lettuce in the next few days.  The farm will be growing about 15 kinds of lettuce this year.  This means I will be eating quite a few salads this summer! We also spent some time planting flowers that will be re-planted outside when the weather is right.  We planted three kinds of lillies, Casablanca, Medusa, and Muscadet.  

Lissa has quite a few flower gardens around the farm; she sells the flowers for weddings or other events as well as offers them to the members of the C.S.A.  If you buy a flower share you get fresh cut flowers with your produce once a week.  The gardens also play host to many events throughout the summer, a few weddings and the Arts off '84 art crawl (you will here a lot more about the art crawl as it gets closer) are already on the books for this summer.   

I also wanted to mention all the other things that are in the ground but I have not talked about:
Arugula
Spicy Asian greens
Spinach
Sugar snap peas
Swiss Chard
Cabbage
Kale - Dwarf Blue, Starbor, Redbor, Red Russian, Dinosaur
Radishes - French Breakfast, Champion, Easter Egg, Cherry Belle, White Globe, and Crimson Giant

AND...Tulips are coming up! A good sign spring is coming!