SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Saturday morning started out with a big rain storm and wind moving through. We got loaded up before it hit, but drove through it to Columbia. By the time we got there it had pretty much passed. But the morning was still chilly and drizzly for a while. We didn't do too good at market, but then it looked like a lot of people took home produce. Just wasn't a buying day. Seems like every other week is a buying week and last week we sold out mostly, so this was the off week?! The strawberries are on the down hill slide, getting fewer and smaller, but still good! Was too wet to plant yesterday after the morning rain storm, so we are working on it today. We've got most of it done, just have to get my stevia, oregano and rosemary plants that we dug up last fall and over wintered in the greenhouse out and planted. Oregano is a perennial and will over winter outside, but I like to have it in the greenhouse to take cuttings off of and start more to sell and set out in the Spring. The stevia and rosemary will not over winter here, and again I like to take cuttings in January & February to start new plants to sell. Years ago when I first started growing stevia it was very hard to get the seed, and then it cost about 50 cents a seed, and germination was about 40%! So I started taking cuttings and rooting them. Stevia works very well with this method. For those of you who don't know what stevia is it is a natural sweetener. It is good for diabetics, and it can be bought in powdered form in health food stores. It's about 5 times sweeter than sugar! You can google it and read all about it!