SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Wow! What a difference in years this Spring! At least the calendar says it's Spring, but after another major snow storm and temperatures in the 20's it doesn't look or feel like Spring. This time last year we were almost a month a head of schedule and things were blooming early and we were mowing grass already! They are calling for a warm up for Easter Sunday but then to turn cold again April Fools day. Well nature does have a way of putting us in our place and having the last say...! Besides scooping snow off of our hoop houses, we have been trying to get a little bit done. We have got our ginger and tumeric pre-started in the green house. We have tomato, eggplant and pepper plants up and going. We have Swiss chard, and various greens sprouted and ready to put out in the hoop houses if we could get out there to them through the snow and mud! (Bright side...we are getting much needed moisture!) We have potatoes and onions ready to plant, and sweet potatoes ready to start our own slips this year. Our garlic we planted last fall is coming up and looking good. Strawberries in the hoop house are starting to bloom. We haven't even uncovered the ones outside yet. So when it starts to warm up and dry out a bit things are going to get very hectic around here. This year the power plant where Greg works is having their Spring Outage where they shut down, refuel, repair and do maintenance work. It is done every 18 months and is a 4-6 week long period of lots of over time and extra work. So we will be double busy!