Jan. 8 - 14, 2012

Temperature range

• lows: 24 - 50 F
• highs: 39 - 60 F

Rainfall: 1.25"

Harvested:

• lettuce
• radishes
• turnips
• kale
• broccoli & mangel leaves for goats
• collard, cabbage collard & cabbage leaves for goats

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 2
• Mon. 3
• Tues. 3
• Wed. 3
• Thurs. 3
• Fri. 5
• Sat. 3
• Week's Total: 22

Observed & Accomplished

Sunday

• day of rest
• rain
• some of the wheat looks a tad yellowish. Should I be concerned? Need to research

Monday

• damp and drizzly all day
• raked leaves & mulched empty garden bed

Tuesday

• another damp drizzly day
• raked leaves in the back field and mulched
• planted the potted lemon cypress Dan got me for my last birthday
• mulched the lemon cypress

Wednesday

• worked on the summer garden plan & seed order

Thursday

• winter blew in 

Friday

• I'm surprised the garden survived the low temps as well as it did
• Daffodils trying to bloom!

Saturday

Applied nitrogen fertilizer to the wheat. I hate to use a chemical fertilizer but I do believe it is nitrogen starved and that is what we had.