Darin and I have been taking daily walks out in the fields, and today, we have been enjoying one of the first truly springlike days! We fertilized the strawberries day before yesterday. Darin has been busily tying up the blackberry canes, and we noticed today that the cherry trees are full of buds. The seeds in the field still aren't quite showing, although Darin can hardly stand to wait; he has to poke his finger in and check to see if the peas are starting to put down roots. And of course, they are.
The greenhouses are sizzling, humid, and full of life, stacked from one side to the other with baby lettuce plants, spinach, leeks, tomatoes, beets, broccoli, and other baby plants beginning to emerge. It smells divine inside the greenhouses -- one of my favorite smells!
Speaking of greenhouses, we had to put a new cover on one of them the other day, and as we loosened the mulch that holds the edges down, we ran into hundreds, maybe thousands of earthworms! That's another of my favorite springtime things -- seeing all the worms getting active again. It means our soil is healthy and our place is a place they want to be.
We'll post more soon! Hope you're having a happy spring!
~~ Deb
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