Lots of gardening happening around here. I made a new rule that everyone has to do one garden chore each day in addition to all their other chores. The kids have been good with it and have been working hard right along with me.
Lots of my seedlings have moved out from under the grow lights and are hardening off outside on the front stoop.
I cover them during the afternoons and gradually expose them to a few more hours of direct sun each day.
Cured my early round of seed potatoes for a week and planted them out in the garden.
Rhubarb pops up so fast!
We seeded the first rows of lettuces, carrots, and onions
We have some duck eggs in the incubator. They'll be hatching in about 4 days!
I harvested one of my "failsafe" crops -- Jerusalem Artichokes -- 17 pounds from a small patch. They are so easy to grow, nutritious, and prolific. I'm going to try to move my patch to a different spot for their "forever" home now that I know how tall (8 ft!) they get.
Stored them in bin in moist soil in the root cellar. They usually don't store well and are supposed to be eaten gradually over the winter, but we'll see how they do.
My happy farm kids -- playing in the dirt while I planted about 40 new raspberry canes.
Our ducks cannot resist all the worms that come up when I pull back the mulch and turn over the soil.
First row of potatoes.
We had two nights of 27F this week. I had to bring in about 36 trays of plants from off the porch. Hopefully, we're done with frosts now.
The young women at church had a photography contest with different categories. This is the one big sister A submitted and won first place with:
We also had a sad burial for a couple of her baby polish bunnies that died. The breeder said that they are hard. I think they are too inbred and had some genetic issues. Either way, it was pretty heart breaking.
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