Harvest Newsletter

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Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has greens – lettuce, spinach, sorrel, arugula, and potatoes, onions, garlic, parsnips, sun chokes. Field Notes. Ken is planting and transplanting and cultivating. Saturday night he transplanted onions while he listened to Garrison Keillor on his radio ear phones.   Sunday night he cultivated to Wisconsin public radio’s Simply Folk show. And today he is preparing for the arrival of piglets. Pigs are useful four legged tillers. …

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Keeping it Cultivated

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Ken is one of the most consistent cultivators I ever met. He gets out once the soil has dried after a rain and breaks the crust and kills any weeds in the cotton stage He has several “weapons of mass destruction” as he calls them! He moves down the row faster than I can walk. It looks great. Sunday he listened to Wisconsin public radio’s Simply Folk show and thinned carrots and cultivated all the …

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May is Busting Out All Over

The flowers are all ahead of schedule! Most years the hepatica and daffodils are usually the first weekend in May for our spring opener. This year they bloomed about Mid April   The cherries and plums are blooming. We have a hardy bush cherry variety called Nanking. We have a couple types of plums.   The cow slips also known as marsh marigolds are also staring to bloom   And the trillium are right on …

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