Taters!

These are the first potatoes. We stole them from under the giant potato plants growing rampant in the greenhouse. It's amazing what can happen when you tuck in some schriveled up old taters leftover in a bucket from last years harvest!

They were yummy with raw cream butter and a bit of sea salt. :^)

Greenhouse update

Help I've fallen and I can't find my way out the jungle!!

This is what happens when you neglect the greenhouse for 2 weeks and the

tomatoes, weeds and potatoes go wild.

We've got to hack our way in there this week and make some sort of order out of this tangled jungle.  

Greenhouse greens

Lettuce

Beets

Swiss Chard

These should all have been grown outside in the garden. But necessity is the mother of . . . well adjusting. Lydia and I have been growing our spring greens in the greenhouse. Lydia has to check the beds and the flats everyday to be sure the soil isn't too wet or too dry. It's been a real learning experience for her. She has been a real trouper. 

This week with warmer weather we've taken the doors off the greenhouse to increase the circulation. We'll be pulling the greens soon and planting tomatoes, peppers and green beans. . .

Oh and waiting for it to stop raining so we can work outside in the garden. :^)

The great greenhouse potato project

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A few weeks ago these big beautiful potato plants were last year's leftover potatoes.

Lydia discovered them lurking on the cellar stairs in the bottom of a bucket. They were wrinkley and shrivelled with ghost white stems searching for the light. Now most folks would have just thrown them out, but we decided if they were trying that hard they deserved a chance.

So were carried them up to the greenhouse, gentley disentangled them and tucked them into a nice bed. To our surprize they sprouted up like gang busters and they're growing great. We'll mulch them up to their little necks this week and hopefully be eating early potatoes long before the neighbors.

Rain rain go away come again another day

These are brassica seedlings. They would really like to go outside and grow in a nicely tilled, sunny, pleasant garden. The only problem is we still can't till because it won't stop raining long enough for the ground to dry out a bit. So here they wait in the greenhouse.

Please lord, send us 4 or 5 days without rain. Amen