Saturday, March 2, 2013

Finally, March has arrived...


We’ve been terrible about keeping up this blog. I blame Nora. She has oodles of free time, while some of us have to continue to work for a living. Just kidding. Actually, there just hasn’t been anything that exciting to report while deep in the doldrums of this seemingly, never-ending winter.
But March has finally arrived and things are looking up! Even if it has been snowing off and on for the past 48 hours, and the world is still white. The days are getting longer and the temps are staying a little more consistently in the 30s. In the North County, that’s progress my friends!
In another couple of weeks I’ll start some of our seedlings inside under the grow lights. With a little luck, and some warmer temperatures, we’ll be able to move the seedlings outside to the hoop house by the end of the month. Come the 1st week of April, if the snow is gone and the soil is unfrozen and not swamp-like, I’ll get some of the cold crops in the ground under hoop covers. The berry bushes and other bare root plants should be arriving around that time as well. Although I know where they’re all going, I still need to till up and amend the soil before planting.
Sigh. Longing for green…

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