March Wk 4: 20 - 26

Temperature range:

• lows: 35 - 67 F
• highs: 52 - 81 F

Rainfall:  2.05"

Planted:

• sweet pepper seeds (indoors)

Potted:

• horseradish root
• Dan's olive tree (into larger pot)

Transplanted:

• 1 sassafras tree
• 2 redbud trees
• 1 Sargent crabapple
• violets
• daffodils
• strawberries
• 1 crepe myrtle
• forsythia

Harvested:

• beets
• lettuce
• broccoli
• carrots

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 6
• Mon. 5
• Tues. 5
• Wed. 4
• Thurs. 5
• Fri. 6 plus a stash of 5
• Sat. 3
• Weekly Total: 39

Eating Our Own:

• fresh beets
• fresh turnips
• fresh lettuce
• fresh carrots
• fresh broccoli
• fresh eggs
• stored potatoes
• canned strawberry jam
• canned blueberry pie filling
• canned dill pickles
• canned cucumber relish
• canned applesauce
• canned tomato relish
• canned blueberry jam
• frozen hash browns
• frozen blueberries
• sauerruben

Feeding to chickens and goats:

• amaranth
• sunflower seeds
• cabbage leaves
• Swiss chard
• overripe buttercup squash

Accomplished:

• measured & staked new permanent garden beds
• pulled cabbage plants except those going to seed
• moving strawberries to new double dug rows

Observations:

• Sprouting:
• St. Johnswort seeds 
• Roma tomato seeds 
• Spearmint 
• creeping thyme
• pyrethrum
• volunteer calendula coming up 
• strawberries flowering
• fig tree beginning to leaf out
• blueberry flower buds forming
• azaleas blooming
• robins everywhere
• lots more rain on Saturday