It has been an interesting spring so far! WIth lows in the 20's just a couple weeks ago, to 80 degree days a week ago! It has been a challenge being able to plant outside until just recently. We have planted close to 500 lbs of potatoes, 3600 onion plants, 1/2 of our leeks, which is approximately 1800. We direct seeded Kale, beets, radishes, turnips, spinach, arugula, bok choy, tat soi and more! We have transplanted lots of lettuce to the field, along with swiss chard, and planning to transplant some cilantro tomorrow. We planted 15 lbs of sugar snap peas, 5 of which have germinated and are growing great! Tomatoes!!! We have transplanted Thousands of tomato plants from smaller containers to larger ones. We hope to plant some in the high tunnel within the next few days, but will wait on most of the field tomatoes for another 2-3 weeks, until this unstable weather becomes more stable. All of our other plants are growing great in our greenhouse/high tunnel. We are keeping baby squash plants, zucchini, okra, rosemary, basil, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and more safe and sound until it is nice and warm outside consistently.
We have been busy with planting and maintenance, but we have also been working on a few other projects. We are in the final stages of building our chicken wagon, we hooked up our irrigation to the feed, so we now have irrigation in our fields. We have almost completely finished with our second high tunnel. We were able to get the plastic on a few weeks ago, then had to frame out the ends for added stabilization and to allow us to add polycarbonate as well as just poly on the ends. Pictures to come! Getting things together for the markets and our CSA! Recenly purchased some nice coolers that will keep our CSA shares nice and cool while we wait at our dropoff location.
So Spring is moving right along! We have been working mostly 12 hour days already, and its only going to get more busy and more exciting! Gotta Love what you do! And we Love, Love Dove Farms!
We have been busy with planting and maintenance, but we have also been working on a few other projects. We are in the final stages of building our chicken wagon, we hooked up our irrigation to the feed, so we now have irrigation in our fields. We have almost completely finished with our second high tunnel. We were able to get the plastic on a few weeks ago, then had to frame out the ends for added stabilization and to allow us to add polycarbonate as well as just poly on the ends. Pictures to come! Getting things together for the markets and our CSA! Recenly purchased some nice coolers that will keep our CSA shares nice and cool while we wait at our dropoff location.
So Spring is moving right along! We have been working mostly 12 hour days already, and its only going to get more busy and more exciting! Gotta Love what you do! And we Love, Love Dove Farms!
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