Thursday, April 3, 2008

a thousand words

Looking through the pictures that have been taken each day, I am finding it increasingly difficult to pick the "best" one(s) to post. What a gorgeous day! A little cold this morning (19 F @ 6:30am). Consequently this has forced us to push our "ground" date for peas back. Beautiful though...



What wonder. What stark contrast to "the city." Sure. Rather obvious... but, really... this on my way to breakfast??



We spent the better part of today mapping out this season's crops. A process I find I am enjoying. We know what we're going to grow and how much already. Now we have to find the proper fields/beds/soil for them. By taking many different factors into account (variety by variety) we rotate/place crops in the beds that will ensure the health of the soil from last year through this year and next year. Diversity is the through line...



While walking one of our lower fields (to get a visual on what crops were there and what ones could fit this year), I found a few of these from last season:



Dried tomatillo husks. Took many different pics of this. Wish I could post them all. A whole other world to explore...

Then.. More time "dancing" water over the planters in the greenhouse. More time cleaning tools. And then...

I got to drive this wild sonofabitch



Yep.

A good day.

Supposed to rain all day tomorrow. We'll see if my poncho holds up.

More then.

2 comments:

ELIN said...

I have never heard of a tomatillo. what's that, some kind of tomato hybrid? Nice pictures!

The Pajama Pundit said...

Isn't a tomatillo a distant cousin of the tomacco?

[That's a Simpsons reference for all of you who aren't a nerd like me.]

How was the handling on that tractor?

Bert.