Friday, March 18, 2011

Weather...

Days like this make me nervous, it is hard to remember we are not behind, just because it is beautiful outside.
Our starting schedule has dozens of more items being started in the next couple weeks, and our heated hoophouse has lettuce, turnips, onions, kale, and lots more either already in or just ready to go into the ground. Our unheated hoophouse should be fully planted within the next couple weeks and producing fully by May.

If the rains are reasonable we will be plowing and then tilling for our potatoes and onions the very end of March or beginning of April.

Our first week of our CSA is not until June. We still have more than 12 weeks. Our spring share starts in a little more then a month, but we do not have that many members for that season, and their first couple weeks will be heavy in the greens department and suplemented with some other local products.

Really, our frost free day is still months out, so DO NOT fall to the temptation to put your tomatoes out! A couple years ago I sat at Jacob's Field in the snow in late April, and a couple years before that I saw a farmer loose hundreds of may planted tomatoes when the low hoops they had over them collapsed under a May snow fall.

So enjoy the weather, but remember, it is Ohio, we are NOT out of the woods quite yet...

1 comment:

Nik said...

*AMEN SISTA!* ;)

Cleveland is so unpredictable. I swear sometimes I think its best to wait until JUNE to plant anything like tomatoes..... :( Blah. But we make it work. Hope that we have seen the last of the heavy snow, for this year anyhow.