Pok Choi

Cody came for the weekend and teamed with Steven in cleaning up and chipping the currant / gooseberry / strawberry beds.Great Job, Guys!!

Thinning of the strawberries is mostly complete. They might get more as we weed in the coming months. I planted pok choi in the greenhouse (3/4 of a row, shared with spinach).

Next order of business is clearing out the mustard so it doesn't not flower and cross with the kale. Steven is planning to take select specimens of kale back to his garden for seed cultivation. The weather continues to be beyond ideal, with warm sunny days. Many of the overwintered brassicas are flowering.

First Order of Business

It's always the Strawberries that need thinning first thing in the year.
We cleared away the dead leaves in early February.
Now We just gotta dig out half the plants so everyone can breathe in there!

Brussels Sprouts and Kale lasted very nicely though the winter.
Cauliflower mostly rotted after the frost, but there are some younger plants heading up nicely right now that will likely be perfect for harvest in a month (so long as the weather continues to be so mild!).

Rain, rain, rain. After last summer, we are grateful.

First Seedings & Plantings

Steven and Summer Moon seeded the first
TOMATOES
PEPPERS
BULB ONIONS
Inside on heat mats yesterday.

Today they are planting the first
PEAS 
LETTUCE STARTS

So far the weather is mild for winter!

Steven's Planting Dates 2015

FEBRUARY
24th - Started Peppers on heat tape
26th - Started Bulb Onions

MARCH
9th - Greenhouse was delivered!
      - First tractor tilling on the dryer field areas

MAY
1st  - Poppy seed 50' row planted
2nd - Summer Squash 4" pots planted out
9th  - Flint Corn, Steven's 200 ct.
19th - Kiss Me Sweet Corn 5 flats seeded
28th - Kiss Me Sweet Corn planted out SE corner (first direct seed mostly rated)

JUNE
6th  -  Peppers planted out in the NEW! Greenhouse
15th - Flax 15-20' wand sow (sec. 2)
        - Rio Zappe Bean 50' row planted (seeder)
        - Nantes and Redare Chateurel Carrot 50' row planted [Great for late summer eating!!]
        - Lincoln, King Roland, and Steven's Summer Leek 100', (semi crop failure, bad soil)
18th - Rubicon and Blues Chinese Cabbage seeded

JULY
13th - Carrots [Great for winter storage!]
        - Beets (too late for root development)
        - Nutribud Broccoli planted out [great timing for fall eating, too late for seed saving] 
21st - Celeriac planted out (too late)
25th - Rubicon and Blues Chinese Cabbage planted out [perfect timing]
27th - Celeriac planted out (too late)

AUGUST
1st - Rubicon and Blues Chinese Cabbage seeded [almost too late]

SEPTEMBER
6th - Rubicon and Blues Chinese Cabbage planted out [almost too late, provided some winter cabbage]