it smells so good outside! there is nothing better than a little warm spring rain, especially when we've been going without for a while. plus it makes a good excuse to take a day off from working in the field.
So we are really rolling now. We've got a bed of Swiss chard, 1/2 bed of spinach, full bed of Magenta head lettuce and 1/2 bed of scallions. The garlic is doing really well and I'm still debating whether I want to sell it or eat it...we do have a lot but we also eat a LOT of garlic and I'd love to have it last us through next winter and save seed. so i think that path may be winning out.
I've come to similar conclusions this season. I've been really reevaluating my goals with the market garden and feeling like my time and efforts are best put toward our family garden and preserving our harvest. For example, with the garlic, why sell the garlic so that you can have money to buy someone else's (non-organic or non-local) garlic, when I could store it for us and continue my garlic obsession all winter long! I still very much like to grow for market and there are of course some food items that we simply will not be able to grown our own and money comes in handy (ex. olive oil & most grain crops). Plus I suppose there are a few things that unfortunately you just cannot barter or trade veges for...but we're working on that :)
I'll be finishing up bed prep and planting the rest of the head lettuce (a romaine) this week and also planting the second half of the spinach bed.
We've got our new irrigation (funded by a grant) in and it has been working well, but according to my rain gauge we got almost an 1 inch of rain last night so I don't think we'll need to turn it on for a couple days.
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