April 1 - 7, 2012

Temperature Range:

• lows: 45 - 62° F
• highs: 64 - 87° F

Rainfall: 1.45"

Planted: nothing this week

Harvested:

• asparagus
• broccoli
• kale
• lettuce
• carrots

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 8
• Mon. 7
• Tues. 9
• Wed. 7
• Thurs. 11
• Fri. 8
• Sat. 4
• Week's Total: 54

Observed & Accomplished:
Sunday

• Day of rest
• all the trees are leafing out

Monday

• postcard from Kinsey Ag, they got my soil sample

Tuesday

• weeded
• hilled potatoes
• lots of volunteer potatoes coming up too

Wednesday

• light rain

Thursday

• got an egg from everybody, except someone laid theirs in the middle of the goat barn & it got broken
• made yogurt from frozen milk
• cleaned out chicken coop
• raked out manure piles in back field
• spread coop cleanings in the back field too, in the bare spots
• rain

Friday

• Dan cut the grass & weeds at the bottom of the garden with the scythe
• cut between the patches of wheat too
• something has been in the wheat, knocking it over

Saturday

• cut kudzu & fescue to dry for goats
• worked on worm bed bedding