- lows: 35 - 52° F
- highs: 64 - 77° F
Frost: Thursday, April 12
Planted: nothing this week. Glad I waited too.
Harvested:
- lettuce
- broccoli
- beets
- asparagus
- collard flower stalks for goats
Egg Counts:
- Sun. 8
- Mon. 7
- Tues. 6
- Wed. 7
- Thurs 8
- Fri. 6
- Sat. 7
- Week's Total: 49
Observed & Accomplished
Sun
- day of rest
- transplanted 3 volunteer rugosas
- finished bedding for worm bed
- cut grass by wheat field fence, drying for hay
- geese flew overhead, heading east
- wild roses are blooming
Tuesday
- harvested all the fall beets except a few for seed
- filled in potatoes
Thursday
- frost!
- potato growth frost bitten
- Dan tilled the bottom of the garden
- also tilled bed near almond tree except where landscape cloth is fixed to the ground thanks to the wire grass
- mixed old grass cuttings into worm bed
- gathered up cut hay
- transplanted a volunteer forsythia
Friday
- posted a garden update on the homestead blog
- new elder bushes leafing out
- blueberries on new blueberry bush
- raspberry bushes dwarfed in weeds
Saturday
- ordered compost worms
- made top for worm bed
- made yogurt from frozen milk
- transplanted rugosas not doing so well even though I'm giving them lots of water
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