The Deer fence is almost done, all the posts are in and most of the insulators are on.
Head lettuces are ready to transplant, once the fence is up of course!
Direct seeded spinach is getting its first true leaves,
Lettuce mix coming up,
Green onions are chooglin' right along,
A shot of the long row, plastic mulch garden just after it has been packed
And this is a picture just a little farther down on the same garden. The lighter colored earth farther down the field is newly turned sod, planted to a cover crop for this year. The darker earth in the foreground has had 2 years of cover crops planted and tilled into it. Then 4 days ago in a 14 hour marathon stretch we hauled, dumped, loaded and spread 30 tons of compost, 1 ton of alfalfa pellets, 600 pounds of pure wood ash and 100 pounds of kelp meal on the garden to prepare it for this years duty growing all our transplants. You can really see the difference that kind of attention makes in this photo.Then tonight, after much tinkering, it was time to start laying biodegradable, corn starch mulch.
Every day is filled, sunup to sundown on this farm.
2 comments:
Matt,
Where did you get the mulch layer? They are all the rage in my area. Even on the Biodynamic farm I visited everything is on plastic except beets and carrots!! I am too small for a tractor, only a half acre. Doing it my hand is out of my league. However, the labor of weeding is pretty bad so maybe I should reconsider, especially if biodegradable plastic is available. BTW nice shots.
Hi Julie,
The mulch layer is from The Buckeye Tractor Company in Ohio. They have a lot of really neat stuff. Even laying plastic mulch and drip tape by hand isn't that bad when you see the results (that's how we've done it in the past) No weeding, no watering = more time for other things.
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