Today seemed to be a day of getting ready. We moved large bags of soil, fertilizer and cover crop seed around in the barn in order to make room for more seed and for the farm store. This task involved a lot of productive heavy lifting and then so some not so productive moments with the hand palette jack.
(p.s. for those who didn't know, anytime there is a word in my blog that's a different color, you can click on that word and it takes you to an explanation or an image. This save us both time, so I don't have to write in detail about things like hand palette jacks, or voles and you don't have to read about it...)
Also, the fence started to go up. Its a fence designed to keep deer out and broccoli in. Since it is electric fencing, it is put up and taken down each season. So we spent a nice part of the day putting stakes in the ground 20 feet apart around five fields and each stake has three clips where we attach electical tape. So when the current is running through the tape, it borders each field.
And anytime I am not getting fields ready, I am in the greenhouse getting plants ready. I've seeded heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, basil, parsley, eggplant, sweet and hot peppers. The cold frame is up, which means some plants have left the greenhouse and are closer to being in the ground (the cold frame isn't heated, but it protects the plants from the cold at night a little more than if they were outside). It sounds like we get to plow and disc some fields next week! There will be food growing anytime now...
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