Wednesday, April 7, 2010

There's just not enough time in the day!

Since I wrote last everything has really been moving on the farm. The greenhouse is nearly completely planted with 22 varieties of peppers, 14 varieties of tomatoes, 2 varieties of eggplant, and red cabbage. The peppers nearly all sprouted and the tomatoes are just beginning to germinate. The eggplant are almost ready to be transplanted into larger pots. I started some spinach, lettuce, radishes and green onions about 10 days ago in a cold frame and everything is sprouted. We have about half of the gardens fertilized and about 10 percent of them tilled. Field work has begun. We plowed up 10 acres of hay ground and have started discing cornstalks that we didn't get too last fall. We've pulled the planter out to check it over and so far not a lot to fix on it this year as opposed to last year.
About three weeks ago we bought 30 baby chicks. This is my first time ever raising chickens and I'm happy to say 28 are still alive! I really thought they'd be like goldfish and half would die by the time I got them home. They should be ready in about three more weeks to be dressed.
Other news around the farm, it took me three full days but I finished building a play set for the boys, it's been raining for four days here which doesn't help the roads or the fields around here. Between last fall and this spring we hauled about 27 tons of rock onto our driveway and it still is like a sponge in spots.