Saturday, March 19, 2011

March Wk 3: 13 - 19

Temperature Range
  • lows: 40 - 58 F
  • highs: 48 - 81 F
Rainfall: 0.8"

Planted:
  • asparagus roots, Purple Passion & Barrs Mammoth
  • yellow onion sets
Harvested:
  • broccoli
  • carrots
  • turnips (last of)
  • lettuce
  • Swiss chard
  • cabbage (last of)
Preserved:
  • cabbage - 1 gal sauerkraut
Egg Counts:
  • Sun. 4
  • Mon. 7
  • Tues. 6
  • Wed. 6
  • Thurs. 3
  • Fri. 6
  • Sat. 5
  • Week's Total: 37
Eating Our Own:
  • fresh cabbage
  • fresh carrots
  • fresh turnips
  • fresh broccoli
  • fresh lettuce
  • fresh eggs
  • canned figs
  • canned green beans
  • canned strawberry jam
  • canned applesauce
  • canned apple butter
  • canned beet pickles
  • canned swiss chard
  • canned pizza sauce
  • canned salsa
  • frozen sweet pepper
  • frozen chicken broth
  • sauerruben
  • stored potatoes
  • dried watermelon
  • dried popcorn
Feeding to chickens & goats:
  • amaranth
  • sunflower seed heads
  • turnip tops
  • carrot tops
  • cabbage scraps
  • overripe winter squash
  • weeds
  • dried, crushed egg shells
Accomplished:
  • harvested last of the turnips & cabbage except those being left for seed
  • fed turnip tops & Swiss chard to the goats
  • mulched the rhubarb
  • bordered and raked out the new bed in the herb garden
  • transplanted a forsythia bush
  • weeded mesclun, garlic, lettuce, & broccoli
  • mulched mesclun, garlic & lettuce
  • fenced blueberry bush (from goats)
Observations:
  • echinacea, rhubarb, & comfrey starting to grow
  • really still too muddy to do much outside
  • 1st horehound, bergamot, & skullcap seedlings coming up
  • Meyers lemons still green but getting bigger
  • cabbage & some of the mesclun flowering
  • soil is still cold

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