As you can see the swiss chard is doing great. Beet greens as well as the lettuces are ready for harvest. This is good because the Kingston Farmer's Market starts this Saturday.
April 19th we started to plough our fields for this years' planting. One of the fields was tilled today. We are hoping to start seeding some of the hardier greens this weekend outside.
I have been working on the blackberry patch since yesterday. It is hard to start and finish a task when you have two little girls that want you to play with them rather that watch you work. But I finished transplanting 40 blackberry canes tonight. The root system on the plants make them very hard to dig up.
On Saturday we mulched the strawberries with straw. Because we have limited access to equipment we hand raked straw from the field where we planted oats last fall and then placed it on our hay wagon. We (the family) placed the straw around the plants. Our girls thought it was a wonderful afternoon.
JG
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