love these longer days

I love that it is still light out at 7 pm. Why can't we just stay on daylight savings time forever. Doug and James are putting in extra hours in the greenhouses.

Setting up benches and pulling weeds seem to be the order for the day.

This morning CK Greenhouses delivered baby plants "plugs" so we will be planted soon.

Planting using plugs is so cool. when I first started working in greenhouses back in 1972, plugs were no even heard of. The greenhouse owner would sow seeds in narrow containers about 8" x 30". My first job there was to transplanted begonia seedlings. See that plug above. It is one plant. In that amount of soil space my boss would sow 2 dozen seeds which translates to 20 plantlets that I was supposed to separate and plant -----and hope they would grow. It was tedious work that I do not miss at all.

It's Coming

Despite the ground hog and what everyone feels, spring really IS just around the corner. Todays wind will surely blow all this snow away. Doug and James are working in one of the greenhouses - raking and cleaning and getting ready to start some seeds next week. I hope to get some lettuces started so I can have some fresh picked "organically - grown" greens for dinner.

First Day of Spring

My beautiful Star Magnolia out performs itself every years. This is an old photo and Maggie is twice that size now and getting ready to dazzle us once again with her striking white flowers. Henny Penny particularly loves to dig around under her branches looking for all sorts of goodies - grubs and bugs and worms - oh yah.

Today, the first day of spring is a gorgeous one. I got to do some of the things I love. After putting a beef stew in the cooker, Tyler and I went for a walk ( he rode ) around the farm. His mom and dad are very busy getting the chicken house ready for our new babies- 25 Buff Orpingtons - the sweetest little ladies ever. I can't wait to hear their little peeping.

Tyler feel asleep in his stroller so he is being "watched" by his parents and I am here. Dinner, laundry and finishing up Tyler's sweater.