We received some seed potatos yesterday to add to the diverse collection growing in Veg5A already… 10 hills of Yukon Gold and 9 hills of Caribe? This should give us around 120+ hills of 14+ varieties. That should give us potatos enough to last through the winter.<\/p>\n
Cedar poles were added around the perimeter of the garden and more dirt was added to top it off and level it out a bit more.<\/p>\n
We moved a little used bench out to the Veg garden areas as well, mostly to give these old bones a rest. You can never have enough benches.<\/p>\n
The seed potatos were cut in half, with eyes on both halves, placed in the ground 1′ apart cut side up for an hour to allow to to harden\/dry off a bit, then turned over and covered up.<\/p>\n
The greenhouse plants have been coming out every day now since Saturday to toughen up a bit in the breeze\/winds and direct sunlight.
\nHopefully the frost is behind us (Sunday May 9 & Monday May 10) had hard -5 deg C frost. There was a story in the Kingston Whig Standard about a Prince Edward County farm who lost their entire crop of asparagus for the first time in 35? years due to frost. <\/p>\n
That’s climate change for you.. warmer atmosphere means more energy means more variability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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