CHEATING.
We planted strawberries a while back, and they are doing beautifully. Sadly, we have been pinching off each little flower as it blooms. By doing this in their first year, it guarantees the plants will produce lots of berries next year! But it also guarantees no strawberries for us right now. It is a hard lesson in patience, and...we may or may not have "accidentally" left two little flowers un-pinched. Oops! This tiny taste has us very excited for next season....for strawberries, asparagus, blackberries, raspberries. For having more than just a couple, and giving some to our shareholders.- Hannah.
A HOUSEWARMING.
With bandsaws and construction equipment, piles of scrap vinyl and junk scattered around the house and yard...it has been hard to feel very much at "home" this week. But throw in some good friends, a meal of local bratwurst, last year's canned relish and pickles, a playmate for Wendell - and suddenly we feel this unfinished house becoming our own. Our very first little place to call home.
(ALMOST) READY.
Any of the stress we are dealing with these days seems to fade away when we are in the garden. There are flowers on the peas and potatoes, little strawberries turning red (we were supposed to pick all the flowers off this year, but who's gonna blame us for leaving a couple?), onions shooting forth from our small patch of Tennesee walking onions, and tiny broccoli heads peeking through. As we see lettuce and radishes and greens on the edge of being ready for harvest, we are preparing for our 1st CSA delivery! Tentatively, we are planning to have the first pick-up NEXT WEEK. It is exciting and a little scary, knowing that once we get started….that’s it and the train's moving for the next fifteen weeks! But we can see summer coming, with tomatoes and beans and zucchini and squash and melons all in the ground…we know that soon the bounty will be here.
