I have had a hard time focusing on the theme for this week’s blog. The 80+ degree weather the third week of April and now the upper 50’s to lower 60’s the third week of May have had us making drastic changes in our plan for the season. I guess that is my excuse for being nine days late. The early warm weather convinced us to stop planting cool season crops in the high tunnel, switch from green plastic mulch (warmer) to black plastic mulch (cooler) in the field and now the swing back to cooler than normal weather is stressing the first planting of cantaloupes and we will have to do some replanting. Oh well, warm weather is just around the corner, so we will focus on sunnier things. We had a nice time at our farms with a number of our subscribers and employees this past Sunday afternoon and in spite of the chill we enjoyed fresh strawberries and ice cream. Our warm season crops are progressing nicely in the high tunnel. We have been enjoying our greater involvement with Danville Gardens (nice people). We are getting ready to transplant more plants with the prospect of warm weather in the forecast. And finally, we are exercising our farmers optimism that the perfect season is just around the corner.
First caption: Crops in our high tunnel.
Second caption: Danville Gardens’ display has sure spruced up our stand for this time of year.
Third caption: Cantaloupe transplants ready for the field.
Fourth caption: Rainbow over our transplanter.
Fifth caption: Our third week’s full CSA offering. Wasn’t organized enough to get photos of the first two weeks.
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