Busy Times
May 11th, 2008 Posted in General RandomnessThis is always the busiest time of the year. Planting everything and weeding everything. But luckily we have a top notch crew to contend with all of this. This allows me to get other things done that normally might be left behind. One of those things being the cover crop at the leased land along the river. It was where all of our overwintered veggies had been growing, interspersed with vetch and rye that had reseeded itself. Worked out well. So yesterday I mowed it all down. 3.5 acres worth. I’ll be tilling it this week to prepare it for another cover. We’ll be bringing it back into the growing rotation at the end of the season or next season.
Here’s the before mowing shot.
And the after shot. It was kind of like cleaning up my room as a kid. I didn’t know that I really wanted to mow it all but after I finished I sighed a big “Whewww! , Nice.”
After finishing the mowing I checked out the strawberries. We should have berries really soon! I even ate a few of the first. Not too bad….
They’re looking good eh?
Well, we’re off to celebrate all the moms on the farm today.
2 Responses to “Busy Times”
By thejesse on May 11, 2008
Beautiful shots. That’s a lot of mowing but at least it looks like you didn’t have to contend with a lot of dust.
By Katie (Oakhill Organics) on May 11, 2008
we are busy too! we are amazed at how much we try to fit into may: csa harvests, summer plantings, some fall plantings even! plus weeding, irrigating, etc. very very busy. the weather hasn’t helped. we’re doing better now, but we’ve had to fit a lot of work into the last two weeks. the drangen has helped!