Life is Hectic!

As I sit inside and watch the rain pound down outside, I find it hard not to reflect on how hectic life has been since I wrote last. We've finished all our corn planting, prepared fields for planting beans and planted about half of our bean acres. The garden has also seen many changes including planting more turnips and beets. Keeping up with weeding the onions has proven to be a chore. The Indian corn was planted last week and is already starting to sprout. I also finished planting the green beans, yellow beans, and purple beans last week. There was over three pounds of bean seed so hopefully that will be enough to keep up with demand this summer. Monday I transplanted the okra plants into the garden. Yesterday I finally finished planting the red potatoes and transplanted 175 pepper plants. Most of them were sweet peppers including Big Bertha, Giant Marconi, Lilac, Satsuma, Super Heavyweight, and Goliath. I also planted Volcano hot peppers and Serrano del Sol hot peppers. When the straightens out I hope to finish planting the hot peppers.

Oh What a Glorious Day!

Today was absolutely beautiful! Before I go any further on that subject, I would like to back track a couple of days. It rained last week so planting was put at a stand still. Saturday was my first day at farmers market in Davenport. It was a beautiful, perfect day. If any of my customers end up reading this, I would like to personally thank them for making opening day such a success. It was my best market day ever and hopefully a sign of things to come this summer. Yesterday was another beautiful day and I was able to plant more mesclun, green onions, collards, spinach, turnips, and beets in the garden at my place. My dad redisced part of a field to prep it for planting corn. Now back to today. If every day could be like today it would be perfect! It was sunny and warm with temps near 70 degrees with calm to slight breezes all day. In the morning I took the tiller over to my dad's where my big garden is located and planted all of my green beans, royalty purple pod beans, and yellow wax beans. I also planted 10 rows of Indian Corn. Tomorrow I hope to spray it with Roundup. While I had the tiller over there I weeded the potatoes and spread Preen which is a granular herbicide in between the rows and incorporated it into the soil. This afternoon I spent discing the rest of the field for my dad so he could finish planting it. All in all it was a great day!