BRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! It's cold out there and we have around 4"-5" of snow on the ground! Well it's the middle of winter and so I haven't had much to post about as far as farming goes. We've been getting seed catalogs in the mail, so we need to get on that and get those ordered. Greg has been making plans and accumulating parts to put together 3 caterpillar tunnels for this Spring. We are still selling at Columbia's winter market. We've been taking winter squash, sweet potatoes, dried apples, jams & jellies, eggs, and baked goods. We sold the last of our regular potatoes last week.
Greg & Lucas got the big hoop house cleaned out of the old tomato plants, stakes, plastic mulch and drip tape while Lucas was home for Christmas break. They put up the snow load braces so we don't have to worry too much about them caving under the weight of the snow. We got the little green house refurbished and the plants moved over from the big green house, and the big green house shut down, which is nice as the little one doesn't use as much propane. The propane barrel ran dry before we got the little one finished, so all the heaters in the big one shut off. Luckily we caught it and had it refilled (emergency weekend call), before it had been out too long and we lost plants!
My amaryllis that my grandmother passed on to me years ago that had come from her mother, is now blooming! It has 20 bloom stalks, 9 of which have 4 bloom, 6 with 3 blooms, and 3 with 2 bloom, 2 still to bloom, making a total o 60 blooms so far!!! That is what the picture is of! It usually blooms around Christmas and again in July!
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