Seedling Sales

Seedlings have been moved to the Waite General Store to be sold.  Broccoli, cabbage, eggplant, tomatoes and peppers are ready to go into the soil.  $3.25 a six pack.

Summer Planting

Summer planting starts today.  This is where I start asking myself what I was thinking.  I’ve never had the greenhouse open for seedling sales and summer planting fall at the same time.  One ends when the weather warms up and the other begins.  The last of the late spring crops go in today. When that’s [...]

What’s Going On?

The new business cards should be in next week.
Here’s what’s going on – turkey hunting, seeding, growing, transplanting, sweating, swatting black flies, squishing grubs, grumbling about flea beetles and wondering where I put the spinosad.  We put in 2,500 onions, 500 leeks, carrots, radishes, potatoes cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce mix since I last wrote.  I [...]

Free Range Onions

They didn’t really “range” any where but I’m going with the term anyway.  Late last summer I neglected to clean up onions that went to see in the cold house (high tunnel/unheated greenhouse/hoop house) and they started to grow last fall.  They were dormant for a while before starting up slow growth.  One plant started [...]

Early May

I feel like we’re a little bit ahead in spite of the long winter.  The peas are up.  I haven’t checked the rest of the seeds outdoor but will this morning.  It’s warm enough at night to not have heat on in the seedling house.  I’ve used a third of last year’s propane by waiting [...]