The Taste of Spring

The Ladies have been enjoying evening strolls, or foraging may be a better way to look at it, as the weather is turning nicer and the days are getting longer.  I can't complain as Dann and I spend our evenings outside watching their antics and making plans for the garden.  And the benefit of the strolls is realized twice a day - once with my breakfast egg and once later when I have a hard boiled egg.  It is amazing what a little grass, with some grubs and worms thrown in can do to the taste and color of an egg.  And this is just a start - they are not on full pasture yet...we are waiting with baited breath for that day! 

Above is a picture of my breakfast this morning, made even better with a slice of potato onion bread from a bake sale Welcome Farm Bakehouse hosted at the East Aurora Cooperative Market on Thursday evening.  If you didn't get a chance to stop by Thursday and pick up a loaf, or 10, keep an eye out for the next bake sale - this is not a sale to miss!!

I finally sat down during lunch yesterday and started plotting out the garden beds.  With Sally Cunningham's Garden Companion book in hand I performed strategic relationships with my seeds - matching up the potatoes with bush beans in an effort to deter the Colorado potato beetle, and onions and carrots to deter the carrot rust fly.  I'm now up to about 20 garden beds that we need to cultivate in some way and plant based on the seeds I bought and I'm not done with all the varieties we have yet.  Oh My!  AND we had 50lbs (yes there is a zero after the five) of seed potatoes arrive this week.  We have another 5lbs (yes only 5) of potatoes coming in about a week and a half.  The 50 lbs represents 25lbs Yukon Gold and 25lbs Red and the 5lbs is two different varieties of fingerling potatoes - YUM!  We will need to get our shovels out as I read in my potato planting guides that you plant 15lbs of potatoes per 100ft bed. Mind you another book told me you only need 20 - 30 ft of potatoes per family member.  We'll be a little over that mark it seems if our crop is successful.  Which reminds me I need to get Dann building my road side garden stand....

Time to start making my paper pots so I can transplant more seedlings this morning....