Saturday, April 14, 2012

April 8 - 14, 2012

Temperature Range
  • lows: 35 - 52° F
  • highs: 64 - 77° F
Rainfall: 0

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
Mon
  • 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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