green is all there is to be

I know its been a little bit longer than I like to leave between blogs. I've been dyin to blog but a girl gotta eat! And feed ya'll who apparently are STARVING for a fresh veg.

I know! Brown & Beige, while friends of mine, were on my last nerve.
But now my fridge is singin it's easy to be Green. true story. I heard it.

Didja notice that on the second day of spring we had a thunder storm? The plants noticed, they are so happy about it they are spurtin right up inch a minute! we can barely keep up! ( Have I mentioned how happy we are that the temps are rising? )

We've taken to companion planting a lot of our spring veggies. There were a few 'late performers' (who can blame them) in the winter veggie category that had some nice prepared soil available for sublet. So we jumped right in and put some transplanties in the space. The baby lettuce get all that companionship from the kale and probably the wheres & whatfors of the garden doings. ( I happen to believe they chat while we aren't listening) That is, until we harvested the Kale... here they are learnin the newbies:








The debris in the path is the pruned part of the curly kale. You have already consumed the kale, so this is a shot from before the harvest.
Lil baby lettuce running down the middle is reaping the benefits of the survivors.

















One of the other things we found a minute to do this pre-spring was getting the blackberry bushes to get back in their bed.
We know how you love them, so we bought more. Now.... its gonna take a little while to get them to the age of fruiting, to last past the 9am market hour, but we're werkin on it!




Lil side car bar:
I attended an edible plants of the seashore talk. It's put on by Delaware seashore state park, and it's neat. So if you get a chance u should attend it. they have handouts & everything.

Also attended: The HLFM spring workshop at the lovely Lavender Fields, where we shared & swapped ideas & impressions from the PASA conference to the challenging climate. It was inspiring to have a whole room full of farmers on the Delmarva ( love that expression) we're a the! tee hee. Don't hold it agin me I will likely start saying that.

half pint

At the risk of sounding like a broken record; the winter snow and unrelenting cold was brutal on our crops. The last few weeks of warmer temps & more daylight have us delighted. Each day there is another discovery of a surprise springing to life. 2 weeks ago we weren't sure anything was gonna survive, and today we planted lettuce! outside! The Kale is coming back bolder than ever. HOORAY! VEGGIES! I love a root veg as much as the next gal, but boy oh boy ! How I have missed my greens. Theys a comin! Theys a comin!

But, there was loss... some winter peas inter planted with barley ( i think?), they got beat down every time they peeked out of the dirt.
'hey, is it safe to sprout yet?' BAM... try again 'hello?' BAM.
Our hearts ache for them because they are pretty and I absolutely LOVE mowing them down when they are done feeding us those tendrils.
SO today the decision was made to stop gazing out the window hopin & wishin, and to get somethin else in the mud.


I think you know by now we do stuff mostly without the help of horsepower. Rolling (and i use the term loosely) the earthway seeder over the lumps & bumps & valleys, I was channeling Charles Ingalls when his horse went lame and they had one episode to get the seed in the ground or they would all starve. I wasn't able to play the fiddle for Half Pint tonight, too wore out. The only thing missing was the little house, the prairie, and well, about 20 acres....





Yeah, I'm being dramatic. but it was my little hell. Don't judge....




Awww Look at that, its just DYIN to be a cole planet jr.
zero horsepower....