Tuesday, February 16, 2010

It's Starting!


We have plants! When winter lingers on it is always nice when we start onions as it gets us thinking about summer! It can't be too far off, right? Well...onions are such slow growers and are day length sensitive that they need to be started very early. Our greenhouse is not yet heated, so we start our onions in our basement under grow lights. We have storage, red, and sweet onions started as well as leeks and shallots. Hopefully we will have a nice onion crop this year!

Winter Tractor Work


Living on a farm often has unforeseen advantages. This winter has been particularly snowy and lucky for us, we have a tractor which was used to plow out our driveway! Hopefully all of the cold we've had will kill all the pests that live in the soil over the winter. That sure would be nice!