New Plantings

These two pictures are pretty funny. We have tomato plants blooming in the cold frame, just a little bit early. The other is our freshly planted strawberry's. First try at these, have 50 in the ground, bet they turn out good.

Good weekend of work.

We got a good bit of work done on our little patch this weekend. Got the second bunch of Broccoli planted, under the row cover fabric. I am checking out the first batch in this pic. We also built a wash table for the garden. Turned out really good.

First Saturday of April

What a beautiful first Saturday in April. To bad we have two days of 40 deg. weather coming up the next couple of days. You got to love this first picture. Jennifer is painting the barn bench, with plenty of help. Four supervisors critiquing every brush stroke. Someone get them some shovels to lean on!!! Later we had a nice fish fry. The crappie were the best I have ever had.

New Plants and Techniques

Well, the new Blueberry plants look to be doing really good. They have a good bit of new growth. To bad we have to limit the production the first year, I bet fresh blueberry's taste great. The other pic is the sheltered broccoli plants. There are 36 plants under that cover. They are doing great. I'm really impressed with the fabric cover we are starting to use.

Outdoor Gardening is Kicking in Gear

Here are a couple of pics of what we have been up to in the garden. Had some spring like weather the last couple of days. The cold frame is filling up quickly, looks like Ricky is right, we need a greenhouse!!! The tomato plants started in late January are damm near 2 ft tall now. If we can keep them growing, we should have Tomatoes by mid May. I also added a second chamber to the compost bin. This should help us turn the compost for quicker production.

Mom's Quilt Show

Here are a couple of pics from Mom's quilt display at the quilt shop. We practically had a family reunion there on Saturday. The display was very impressive, great job Mom!!!!

New Gardening Techniques

Here are a couple of pics of some new ( to use) gardening techniques. The first one is our just finished raised bed. We are using fabric row cover over some freshly planted beats. We tryed the row cover on our first batch of radishes, and the covered ones came up well before the uncovered. Looks pretty promising. The other picture is of the early started flowers and herbs in the cold frame. They are doing very well.

Broccoli Plants

Here is the first batch of broccoli. Came up great, and growing even better. There is nothing like fresh broccoli!!!

Updated Seedling Room

We have been hard at work in the seedling room. Build two new shelfs to store the new plantings. Just have to hang the lights on the third level. The tomato plants we started early are growing like weeds. Had to put them in some bigger pots. We will see how they do when they hit the dirt in a couple of months. The may be 2ft tall by then.

Is Spring here?????

We had a beautiful day here in Shively today, near 75 degrees. The storm damage clean up continues, the first pic is the fire pit with a nice stack of logs and branch's. We also got the potato bed tilled, will be planting the Yukon Golds tomorrow!!!!