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Patience

April 23, 2008   Agriculture, Daily Farm Life, Food, Garden, Greenhouse, high tunnel, hoop house, Growing Vegetables, Homestead

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At 4:20 am Steve got up for the day and sent T and two of her sleepover friends to bed. I remember when T used to grumble about how stupid it was when her sister stayed up all night and how she wasn’t going to do stupid stuff like that.

Patience is not planting the garden when friends and family are putting out even their warm weather crops in April. I REALLY want to start putting everything in the ground.  My step-mother called yesterday to say she thought she’d have to come get plants because she planted her garden last week and things are “already dying.” I’m amazed they lived as long as they did. I’m looking at phosphorous deficient tomato seedlings in the four season greenhouse where it’s much warmer at all times. They’re deficient because they’re a little colder than they’d like to be. They’ll be fine.

Jan and I are experimenting. She took home broccoli seedlings and planted them yesterday. I’m planting some today and putting them under row cover. We have nothing to lose since there are 750 seedlings waiting to replace these if they don’t survive. Six weeks of frost danger and torrential spring rains nag in the back of my mind. I’m 99.99% sure it’s too early here but what if I miss that .01% opportunity for a very early start on hundreds of cabbage and broccoli? The difference is big enough for an extra harvest.

Amity came to visit yesterday. She took an awesome photo of lettuce in the greenhouse. She offered to help weed the greenhouse and I will of course, take her up on that. The weeds are starting to get bigger than the lettuce and beet green seedlings. It’s great timing. I’m still working with seedlings while the weeds get bigger. Amity’s a farm girl who grew up working in the greenhouse. She can get her gh fix and I’ll send her back with seedlings for her garden. Amity – I’m here all day today and tomorrow. If I don’t see you here first I’ll be calling you later this morning.

It rained a little very early this morning and thunder has been rolling but I think it’s over now. I love this time of year. I took a cup of coffee to the seedling house at 5 am, turned off the heat, admired the seedlings, and went to the pond to feed the trout. There’s a noticeable difference in the seedlings from 24 hours ago. I’m going to get the birds fed and out for the day and get busy with seedlings. Enjoy your day!

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