Well, phase 1 is planted and rained upon. It is too early for this region to plant what I have done, but who could wait when the temperature have been in the 70's nearly daily for the past couple of weeks and the forecasters are calling for more of the same for the next couple, the peach trees are blossoming, the berry bushes are leafing out. I figure, the worst that can happen is that I lose some seed and have to start over in a few weeks and the best case is that we have lettuce, radishes, beet and turnip greens a few weeks earlier than usual. The onions and shallots will be mature when they are mature and they generally go in the ground about now anyway.
About 1/3 of the patch is cleaned up and planted. The rest is a work in progress, to get ready for the potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, squash and greens that are thriving under the grow light in the kitchen.
Our contractor neighbor that repaired our driveway and did the grading around the house came by Saturday to see if I needed a garden plowed. He didn't even notice it last year when he was working here. Though I didn't need his help on the garden, I did still have a very rough patch of turf below the garden that was very hard to mow and he came back with his tractor and plow and started breaking it up to disk later, making it smooth enough to mow later this season. In exchange for this labor, we are going to let him mow the fields for hay this year, we have brush hogged it for a couple of years to try to make the fields healthier. This will reduce our labor this year as a benefit to us, we will only have to mow the areas around the house and garden instead of all 30 acres. This is a win win. Maybe next year we will have livestock and will need the hay, but not this year. This year we will start with chickens and see how that goes.
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