Planting has begun.

Yesterday, at Earthworks, 2 plots of sweetcorn got installed, just in time for the rain - yes! We aren't huge sweet corn growers, limited by the acreage! Our corn will be available at our farm location and the St. Peter Coop this year. We grow the Supersweet varieties that are about 28% sugar (yum) crisp & tasty! I also planted lettuce, beets, spinach, radish, kohlrabi, mesclun mix & Swiss chard. I am of course hoping for limited frost in the future, but these are cool weather crops and are more cold tolerant. I have pea plants that are about 4" tall, can't wait! Things continue to be busy!

•  Planting seed trays with annual flowers and veggies for the field
•  transplanting from seed trays to 6 packs
•  digging-dividing-and potting up perennials (by the hundreds...yes)
•  watering everyone (would they just get their own?)
•  prepping all my market 'offices' and about 800 laminated market cards
•  updating records on 2 acres of iris (ouch, who planted all those anyway?)
•  tilling the field
•  installing newly arrived woody plants for future bouquet stems (only 160, only?)
•  taking photos with my 'sock camera'
•  uncovering about 3,000 potted plants and organizing them alphabetically (who's idea was that?)

I gotta stop the list, getting tired just thinking about all of it, and this is only a partial list. The life of a small farmer....either you gotta love it or you are just crazy!

And, the shed starts going up tomorrow, hurrah! I decided on 'barn red sides,' close as I could get to sienna. The roof color is 'native copper,' very cool. Of course that color is an upgrade...is it a coincident that I always fall for the most expensive stuff?