Spring Has Sprung!

A couple of days ago it looked like this.

Today it looks like this!

Daffodils are coming up in lots of places all over the property.  These are the first ones to bloom near the base of one of the huge oaks on the east side.  Another clump is coming up at the base of an old oak on the west side.  I rescued a large clump from being plowed under way out in the garden plot.  I'll replant that somewhere today.  Spring has sprung - at least today.  It will probably be winter again in a few days, but today is blissfully warm and sunny and I am going to enjoy every minute of it.

Oh - the seedling farm in the dining area looks like this.

The seedlings are up and running.  Cabbage, Leeks, 2 varieties of Broccoli plus Broccoli Raab, Cauliflower, 2 varieties of Eggplant, and 8 varieties of Tomatoes.  About 280 seedling total so far.  In the next week we will sow all the peppers and some of the herbs, maybe around 100 more seedlings.

Is it Spring Yet?

Another month has gone by without a posting to the blog.  I'm tired of winter and am so ready for spring.  We keep getting these teasers that spring is on it's way and then SLAM! the weather turns cold again and we hunker down once again.

Well here is a sure sign that spring is coming - at last that's what the calendar says.  We have been sowing our veggie seeds that need to be started indoors.  These a cabbage seedlings.  We have also started eggplant, broccoli, leeks, 8 varieties of tomatoes, and cauliflower.  In another week or so we will start all the peppers.  Onion plants and seed potatoes will be arriving in three weeks and should be in the ground at the end of March.  Peas and spinach will also be direct sown about that time.

The soil has finally dried out enough to plow.  My very generous neighbor - Allen Green came by with one of his tractors and a 3 gang plow yesterday and turned over the ground where the garden is going to go.  Now I can get lime, blood meal, bone meal and greensand spread on the garden and order a truckload or two of organic compost.  Once that is all down Allen will till it all in for me and we will be ready to plant.

Joe Green and I supervising while............. 

........Allen plows the garden plot.

and turn over the ground like this.  It's about a 1/4 acre

So yesterday it was spring - 73 degrees and sunny.  This means, of course, that today it is Winter again.  Big time Winter!  AT 7:00 am it was 32 degrees and a mix of rain and sleet was falling.  It never got past 39 for the high and now it's 17 degrees at 10:00pm on it's was down to an expected low of 8 degrees.  YIKES!