SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

It's been a while since I last posted, but we are still here and kicking! Things are starting to pick up, always the way it is in the Spring, you go from almost a stand still, to an all out run! And boy does my body feel it!  We've got one potato field disced, beds made and 250 pounds of seed potatoes planted. Have gotten two of the hoop houses just about ready to put new plastic on, just can't seem to get a calm windless day to do that. We've gotten about half of the blackberry patch cleaned out and the dead pruned out. Have been working on starting our sweet potato slips. Got most of them done yesterday and will finish the rest up tonight. We have heirloom tomato, pepper and eggplant plants ready to go out one of the hoop houses, but  the weather is calling to be around freezing again next week, so guess we'll have to wait. We are hoping to get our onion plants planted tomorrow. Greg finished re-working our little transplanter over and hopes that it will work to plant the onion plants. I hope so too, will save a lot on the knees! We also planted over 1600 heirloom tomato seeds that will go outside later. I also planted some basil.