Great Spring Day!

Parsnips are about 1/4 dug and bagged for Sweetwater Market on Saturday.  Here's a picture of about a third of them, along with some lovely irises and crocuses.

Bill planted oats.  They will be combined for feed and seed, or plowed down for green manure. He's afraid some of the rye planted last fall may have winter-killed.  It was such a harsh winter! That's very rare with rye.  He has 5 fields of rye, some planted for plow-down, and some for harvest.  We depend on the straw as well as the grain.  The barley looks as though some areas may have winter-killed depending on soil type.  We'll know more after a warm Spring rain.

Haiku
Planted oats today
Passing shower left the dirt
Mellowed by the sun

We also planted 2 rows of spinach and 2 rows of cutting lettuce in the garden.  The rows are each about 75 ft long.  These will be covered with row cover to keep them a little warmer so they will sprout ok.

I set out a lot of lettuce plants in the hoophouse the past few days.  We should be able to start eating lettuces and other greens by next week.  Ah, I can't wait.  Some lettuces with flavor!

I planted more seeds: lettuces, broccoli, curly kale in the greenhouse.  There are about 60 flats growing in there now!  It's crowded.