The Weekly Digs #160

I find myself in need of a vacation this week. And luckily, I have one coming up! I am going to a family gathering in Maryland. It will be just me and Noelle and the boys will stay behind to care for everything here on the farm. So next week- no weekly digs. The next one will be May 7th.

We’ve had a lot of long days doing garden work this past week. We formed the garden beds for the kids’ gardens. I don’t know why but whenever we do this it’s usually a marathon of needing to get it done because of impending rain. 

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I suppose that’s the reality of spring, we work around constant rain storms and weather in order to get ideal conditions for working with the soil. I worked on it from 2pm to 9pm. 

Whenever we make a new garden area, we use the rotary plow to mound up the soil and make a raised bed. From this point on, the soil doesn’t get plowed. But this one initial plow gives me a chance to work in lime, azomite (minerals), wood ash, and compost. 

Hopefully my boys will fill in the walking paths with mulch while I am away this week 🙂 

Here’s a list of other things we finished:

• We harvested a lot of mesclun mix and gave some as free samples to our farm customers. The rest we have been eating each day. We also have been enjoying asparagus. We fry it in a pan with oil, garlic, salt and pepper. It’s delicious!
• I made more seed starting mix.
• I transplanted cabbages and my first succession of celery.
• We harvested spinach and made more spinach pasta.
• We started mulching our blackberries.
• We have been working on finishing weeding the blueberry rows so we can mulch them too.
• I replanted the rest of the shelling peas. The snap peas I replanted about 6 days ago are starting to pop up. Yay!

Some of my family was under the weather this week, including Cameron. It makes life a little harder when you have less helpers, they do so much! Cam is usually the one who goes with our kids to deliver farm orders on Friday. Because he wasn’t feeling well, I went instead.

After we finished all the deliveries, I got a flat tire on our van. Luckily I noticed before we got onto the main road.

I was grateful to have my boys with me, because Cam had taught them exactly how to change a tire just a few months prior when we had a flat on our truck. I basically got to watch my boys change it to the spare while I called Cam and told him what was going on. 

He told me to make sure they did a couple things just to be sure it was done right, but they pretty much knew it all. Having well-trained kids is awesome sometimes! I could tell it made them feel good to be able to do it! 

We took back roads home and made it safely. 

Turkeys

Our new turkey poults with the mama hen are doing so well! After we lost those few initially the others have adapted and are thriving.