March Wk 5: 27 - Ap 2

Temperature Range

• lows: 36 - 46 F
• highs: 46 - 66 F

Rainfall: 1.45"

Harvested:

• broccoli
• carrots
• Swiss chard
• lettuce

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 5
• Mon. 5
• Tues. 6
• Wed. 6 + 2 found in hay
• Thurs. 4
• Fri. 5
• Sat. 4
• Week's total: 37

Preserved:

• froze 10 eggs

Eating Our Own:

• fresh eggs
• fresh beets
• fresh turnips
• fresh cabbage
• fresh carrots
• fresh Swiss chard
• fresh lettuce
• fresh broccoli
• canned blueberry jam
• canned blueberry pie filling
• canned vegetable soup
• canned pizza sauce
• canned dill pickles
• canned salsa
• dried watermelon
• dried cantaloupe
• dried sage leaves
• frozen okra
• frozen cantaloupe
• frozen green peppers
• stored potatoes
• sauerkraut

Feeding to chickens & goats:

• amaranth
• sunflower seeds
• frozen cantaloupe
• stored winter squash

Accomplished:

• again not much because of rain
• our neighbor plowed/tilled ground for our corn field!
• removed 2 sweet potato sprouts & put in water to root

Observations:

• Asparagus sprouting!  14 of 30 roots. This is a relief because I planted it in the mud.
• Blueberry bush flowering. Only the part where the goats couldn't reach.
• onions coming up
• DH gave me a lemon cypress tree ( Cypressaceae.m.golden wilma) for our anniversary. Never heard of them before but smells heavenly!
• left my tomato, herb, cabbage seedlings out in the pouring rain, but they seem to have survived. (Fortunately)
• dogwood beginning to bloom