Potato Planting

We got our potatoes in yesterday.  44 rows of red, yellow, white and a few all blue potatoes.  That was a bit of work.

Lucas re-made the box on the potato planter.  We didn't get it completely painted before it was time to plant, but it will end up being John Deere yellow.  It worked great and we could get far more seed potatoes in it than in the old one. 

Then Paul went over it all with a drag, in case it rained overnight.  The water could wash down through the rows otherwise.

Greenhouse planting

We've got one of the greenhouses planted now.  I've been getting it open in the morning and closed at night, just like it was late April.  Usually this time of year we only open the vent some from time to time.

We've got onions, lettuce, kohlrabi and beets in there.

And we've been continuing to transplant our bedding plants and patio plants for the Farmer's Market.  This year Kenny won't be helping us at the Market but his younger sister Mercedes will be helping out.  She's been transplanting with us as well.

The plants have been doing very well.  I'm looking forward to having tomatoes and peppers on some of our small patio plants when the Market starts.

Transplanting

Paul and Lucas did a bunch of transplanting.  Hazel was sick and Quinlan was at a birthday party, so I stayed home with the girls.  They got all the Garden Pearl tomatoes shifted up to quart pots.  Those are going to be our basket tomatoes.

From this:

To this:

They also got several hundred onions transplanted.  From this:

To this:

The onions look tiny and underwhelming right now, but they'll fill out the cells of the trays in no time.

Lucas also took some pictures of the basil we've got growing for Ag Day at the Washington Pavilion.

Starting up for the 2012 season

We've got some of our patio tomatoes and peppers up already.  We've also got a bunch of onion ready for transplanting and we seeded some lettuce, cabbage and kohlrabi this Sunday.

Here are the boys transplanting onions.

2011 Wrap Up

I thought I'd post some pictures of the latter half of 2011.

These are from May at the Farmer's Market.  We had mostly tomato and pepper plants, with a few cold crop vegetables.

This next group is from July when we primarily had veggies.

And finally, here are some from August.  These are of Paul washing produce for the Market and of him doing field work.