UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday April 28th 7:30 am @ Tryon Farm Institute "Coffee with a Farmer"
Free Coffee and Q&A with Sacha... RSVP to RSVP@TFInstitute.org
Thursday May 3rd @ Luhr Park 9am "Garden Tips & Tricks" Free Event
RSVP to Laura (219) 324-5855.
Saturday May 19th @ Keepsake Farm at 1pm "Container Gardening"
For more information contact rosiesgarden@msn.com
FARMERS MARKETS BEGIN IN MAY
Spring Heirloom Vegetable Transplants are ready...
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Watch out for Spring, it may just swallow you up
Spring has sprung and of course not a moment too soon. As seedlings continue to be seeded the older sprouts are already being transplanted. Farmers markets and festivals are already scheduled for the entire growing season... Amazing how badly we cannot wait for spring and then how quickly it seems to swallow us up. We are already anticipating a spectacular season. And hoping for the weather (sunshine, rainfall, etc.) to cooperate. Cooperation in my book is unlimited sunshine, moderate humidity and rainfall primarily during sleeping hours. I mean if I was Mother Nature that's how I would roll.
However that woman likes to mix it up a bit and keep me watching the weather as if my entire life depended on it. Well maybe not my life, but in some cases my plants do depend on it. Gardening, farming, playing with plants call it what you may requires endless hours of anticipating disasters that may never truly come. But by preparing and having a plan you have a chance to thwart off nearly any issue.
So what is a spring at Sunkissed actually like..... Well let me tell you. First it begins with hours upon hours of research going into what varieties we will grow for the upcoming season. Then the hunt for finding the varieties of elusive heirloom seeds begins. Luckily we have sources nearly everywhere that can locate pretty much any seed that a seed obsessed farmchick would be interested in giving a whirl.
Once the seed is on farm the fun really begins. From the first bag of potting soil the scent of spring is officially in the air. I've been known a time or two to be quoted telling of my love of the smell of dirt. However it's true nothing puts me more in the mood then the fresh smell of ready to go soil... well in the planting mood that is.
While the seedlings are beginning their adventures for the year the field is being tilled and primed for planting. First in are the sugar snap peas. My entire love of gardening stems from picking sugar snaps in my grandpa's garden as a kid. He always had an amazing garden and still does these days. A few weeks later the potatoes are ready to be trenched in. Lettuces, cabbages and greens follow soon after, usually once the blueberry field is in full bloom.
By this time the seedlings are somewhere in the midst of transplanting for spring sales and markets and proper tagging and labeling are done sometimes into the wee hours of the night. In between all this madness all of the perennials overwintered in ground are being dug up and potted so that they can one day find their forever homes.
In between all that the compost needs spread, the mulch needs topdressed and for some reason that floor in the greenhouse needs weeded from all the extra sunshine. Well the sunshine and the fact that someone's mother thought they needed a gravel floor in the greenhouse. That would be my mother by the way.
So much work to be done in what never seems to nearly ever hold quite enough hours for it to be accomplished. Yet somehow it happens. Just like the coming of Spring. We want it to be here so badly and then before you know it, it just swallows us up.
However that woman likes to mix it up a bit and keep me watching the weather as if my entire life depended on it. Well maybe not my life, but in some cases my plants do depend on it. Gardening, farming, playing with plants call it what you may requires endless hours of anticipating disasters that may never truly come. But by preparing and having a plan you have a chance to thwart off nearly any issue.
So what is a spring at Sunkissed actually like..... Well let me tell you. First it begins with hours upon hours of research going into what varieties we will grow for the upcoming season. Then the hunt for finding the varieties of elusive heirloom seeds begins. Luckily we have sources nearly everywhere that can locate pretty much any seed that a seed obsessed farmchick would be interested in giving a whirl.
Once the seed is on farm the fun really begins. From the first bag of potting soil the scent of spring is officially in the air. I've been known a time or two to be quoted telling of my love of the smell of dirt. However it's true nothing puts me more in the mood then the fresh smell of ready to go soil... well in the planting mood that is.
While the seedlings are beginning their adventures for the year the field is being tilled and primed for planting. First in are the sugar snap peas. My entire love of gardening stems from picking sugar snaps in my grandpa's garden as a kid. He always had an amazing garden and still does these days. A few weeks later the potatoes are ready to be trenched in. Lettuces, cabbages and greens follow soon after, usually once the blueberry field is in full bloom.
By this time the seedlings are somewhere in the midst of transplanting for spring sales and markets and proper tagging and labeling are done sometimes into the wee hours of the night. In between all this madness all of the perennials overwintered in ground are being dug up and potted so that they can one day find their forever homes.
In between all that the compost needs spread, the mulch needs topdressed and for some reason that floor in the greenhouse needs weeded from all the extra sunshine. Well the sunshine and the fact that someone's mother thought they needed a gravel floor in the greenhouse. That would be my mother by the way.
So much work to be done in what never seems to nearly ever hold quite enough hours for it to be accomplished. Yet somehow it happens. Just like the coming of Spring. We want it to be here so badly and then before you know it, it just swallows us up.
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