Tuesday, 3 March 2009

MORE TOMATOES BEING STARTED!!!!

We got about 200 more tomato seeds planted on Monday! These are more hybrid varieties, that when they get big enough will be planted out in the field. We are hoping to get one of the hoop houses planted with the greens we started earlier and then filling it the rest of the way with direct seeding. Hopefully we will get that done this weekend. We didn't get to do it last weekend, because the rain we got washed in under the hoop house and soaked up the West side, so Greg has been trying to get that dried up and re-tilled! Meanwhile his Ford 8000 tractor has a cracked steering plate that he had to get off and it is off at the welder's being repaired.

Our other big news is that we have 3 pullets that have started to lay! It takes about 2 pullet eggs to equal 1 regular egg, and it takes them about a month before they get big enough to sell. So we will have a lot of eggs to do something with when all 150 start to lay! I like to find recipes that use a lot of eggs, like scrambled eggs, quiches, and pound cakes.

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