Archive for May, 2010

Remember the Potatoes…

…that you all planted back in early April?  Well, they FINALLY poked through the ground a few days ago!  A mere 4 weeks after you planted them.  Here’s what they looked like on Wednesday:

Carola potatoes - first to emerge

And then we got a freeze that night.  I won’t show you the picture of the aftermath.  The leaves are fairly frost-sensitive, so they got nipped.  But at least they weren’t very big so there wasn’t much to freeze, and there should be energy enough in the tuber for them to recover.

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A Slow, Wet Spring

Winter rye knee-high (to a 6 year old)

We figured many of you might like to see what things look like at the farm these days.  (Warning: this will be a pretty large post with lots of photos.  Trying to make up for missed postings, I guess.)

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