It's the first week of June and, like last year, it has turned off colder than usual. Lots of rain and humidity. Hoping for the best, for the corn. It's hard to keep the soil at "growing temps" when it cools off like this. It will do what it can do and we will live with it.
My replant of corn from last week is coming up along with the plants that were already sprouting up last week, so, if it warms up this summer, we should have a nice "micro" crop. I planted 28. In some spots, there are two that came up. (I always plant at least two to try to ensure that one comes up.) Usually one pops up, occasionally 2 pop up and some times none pops up.... I soak the seeds over night to try to spur growth, but some seeds just don't grow. Corn is difficult to grow in our region, so when it happens, it is BLISS! 😋 Hey, the basil actually sprouted this year. Didn't happen last year. Keeping my fingers crossed that they keep growing. Time to fertilize too. Corn and Onions need a lot of fertilizer to grow quickly.
I need to start weeding both gardens. I need to replant some bush beans too. Potatoes are still flowering which is a good sign! Typically, the more flowering we see, the more potatoes we get. We don't pull them until the flowering is all done and the leaves start dying. I think we will be getting potatoes early this year!!!
Picking and pickling my mini radish crop this weekend. YUM - love pickled radishes on my burgers!
Picking and pickling my mini radish crop this weekend. YUM - love pickled radishes on my burgers!
We sold our three older Welsummers this morning. I never ask for "going rate" and I never have a problem selling them to a good home. I'm disappointed, however, when people try to talk me down to a lower amount, considering I am already asking 50% less than the local rate. But, rather than get upset and throw verbal darts, I just don't reply at all. They are sold to a nice family that I know will love them as much as we have. I handed over plenty of fresh eggs to seal the deal.
Next projects are to finish the east wall of the greenhouse to help control humidity and temps, put a new floor in the smaller coop so that we can get the pullets moved, and then work on the hoop coop to shore it back up and put in a larger door. The plastic zip ties are giving out so it is time to replace those before our fall meat chickens arrive.
Just a typical first week of June with rain, albeit colder then we would like. Hopefully, this will clear quickly and we can head into summer with a great mini crop this year. I don't want a repeat of last year!
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