Potatoes 🥔 and asparagus! That’s the theme of the week oh my lanta!
Sooooo many potatoes. Chase would drive a tiny tractor and make a furrow, the boys and I would load the row with potato seed starters then I’d rake them over. We would set a drip line and move to the next one….so far we’ve done 48 rows and planted about 1,200 pounds of potatoes!!! I’m certain we will run out of land before we run out of potato starts 😬 We had extra help one day with three other people helping and it went so much faster! Right now we have at least 16 more rows to go. Fun fact there are 28 different varieties we are planting, did you even know there were that many different types?!?
The asparagus fields- there are 10 long rows. They have chicken wire under them (so the gophers don’t get the “crowns”….aka roots/seeds….the area where the growth comes from). We were asked to cover the rows with chicken wire and then cover the newly set chicken wire with compost and then put the drip lines on the top. Sounds easy enough right….only took us 1.5 weeks to complete this task!
Seeds that I started in the green house this week include:
34- Dinosaur kale 🥬
25- Banana squash
25- Eggplant 🍆
25- Spaghetti squash
25- Crookneck squash
25- Purple basil
25- Dill
25- Cucumbers 🥒
50- Tomatoes of 3 varieties 🍅
Some of the seeds that were planted last week are starting to pop up so that is exciting!!
We collected lots of eggs this week. We take the clean ones to the front to be sold and we get to keep the dirty ones!
We had a special visitor come fill our hearts for a few days!!! Auntie time is the best!!
Animal highlight of the week:
BIG HORN SHEEP!!!! There is a sign that says they might be crossing but we never really thought we would see them! And guess what the hummingbirds are finally here!!
Being less than a half mile from Zion….we went again….and I’m sure we will again and again!! In that last picture of Merrick you can barely see the road and the cars driving on them….but he hiked up that WHOLE thing…(with a parent behind him of course!)…someone must be turning THREE soon!
