SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Strawberries and asparagus are here! That must mean Spring has arrived! Yea! We picked 87 quarts of strawberries this morning and three pounds of asparagus. We don't have a very big patch of asparagus mainly for us, but we share a little:)! We got hit Monday with a hail storm and it messed up our three hoop houses. Luckily we still didn't have the plastic replaced on the fourth one. We can get by for the summer, but we will have to put new plastic on the three next fall and one of those we just had replaced a month ago! The joys of farming and dealing with the weather! Luckily we didn't have much crops outside yet to damage. The potatoes are just breaking through and the garlic didn't seem to be bothered. Our arugala took a hit, but it will grow out of it. Next week is to be a lot warmer, up in the upper 70's so it should grow out of it pretty quick. Our green onions got beat up a bit, but not too bad. Pulled 100 bunches for market tomorrow. We have also gone through our heirloom tomato plants and pulled out the ones we are keeping for ourselves to set outside. The extras we will have at market tomorrow, also. So looks like we will have a good day weather wise and finally some new Spring produce to offer along with our sweet potatoes, baked goods and dried produce! We also found a used 10 foot box trailer for sale and added it to our farm family this week! That should make getting things to market easier and eliminate taking a second truck a times. Will also make it easier to load crates into and we can take plant racks in it! We are taking it this week to test it out! :)