Spring Meeting

Tonight was the first barnyard meeting of the year.  Everyone was given their plots and we had a little potluck afterward.  My plot is in pretty much the same location just a different shape than last year.  Everyone also got to see the new goats as well.  I took some time to remove leaves from around my garlic, especially the plants that hadn’t poked through yet.  There was approximately 4 to 6 inches of leaves on the garlic and that might have been just a bit too much.  Around 80% came up pretty well, but that last 20% would have been a couple weeks delayed if I hadn’t helped it out.

Rhubarb Transplant

I had planned on getting rhubarb last week to transplant but decided to delay after it started to snow.  So today I went out on lunch to my aunt’s on the lake and dug up a number of rhubarb crowns.  When I got home I separated them in to smaller pieces making sure each had a good chunk of root with it.  After that I gave them a little water and am now just letting them grow.  I won’t harvest anything from them this year to let them get established but will cut some next year.

Barnyard Garlic

The weather hasn’t exactly felt like spring lately.  We have had some frost filled mornings as well as heavy rain and then very warm days.  There is also supposed to be freezing rain tomorrow as well.  Needless to say I stopped and checked out my garlic at the garden to see how it was growing.  The ground is still pretty wet but most of the garlic is up and growing well. 

Rest Of Peppers

All of the regular peppers are up!  They did take longer than the medusa’s, but pretty much right on schedule with last year.

First Peppers

The medusa peppers are starting to come up as well as the green onions

Sprouts

Going to just put up a few quick posts in the next few days as stuff comes up.  Today the leeks and peas are both poking through the soil and as well as the tomatoes!

Sprouts

Well that didn’t take very long.  The broccoli, bok choy and kale have all sprouted and started to grow.  I also moved some dirt away from the peas and you can see that they are starting to crack open and should be up tomorrow.  I am impressed with how well they are doing and excited to try out the sprouts.  The peppers should be up in a few more days, they usually take a week to come up.